Sr. Fellow Fellow Processor Architect (ASIC)

Your mission

Develop the architecture of our digital processor that controls photonic integrated circuits for AI training and inference that is implemented by a third party.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to internal photonics firmware and system integration teams as well as to the external third-party ASIC / processor design partner.
• Define and manage processor architecture milestones aligning with overall product roadmaps and photonic IC development timelines.
• Act as the primary technical interface between internal R&D product management and the external implementation partner to ensure requirements are fully translated into the processor design.
• Guide less experienced engineers in digital architecture and design principles relevant to photonic systems.
• Identify architecture-level risks early coordinate mitigation plans and escalate critical blockers to management.
• Deliver a processor architecture optimized for high-bandwidth low-latency control of photonic integrated circuits in AI training and inference systems.
• Ensure the design meets aggressive performance power and integration goals to maintain competitive advantage.
• Optimize architectural trade-offs to reduce implementation cost and time-to-market without compromising performance.
• Define complete processor architecture specifications within agreed timelines.
• Achieve first-silicon success through accurate modeling verification strategy alignment and close partner collaboration.
• Integrate photonic-specific control features seamlessly into the processor instruction set and memory hierarchy.
• Build up and manage team for future implementations.

Your profile

Education : Masters degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field; equivalent industry experience considered.

Technical Expertise

• 10 years of experience in processor or SoC architecture definition with proven first-silicon successes in high-performance low-latency digital systems.
• In-depth knowledge of CPU and / or DSP microarchitecture design (pipelines instruction set architecture memory hierarchy).
• High-speed digital interfaces and interconnects.
• Hardware / software co-design principles.
• Low-power and performance optimization techniques.
• Experience with hardware description languages (e.g. VHDL Verilog SystemVerilog) and architecture modeling tools (e.g. SystemC gem5 or equivalent).
• Familiarity with AI acceleration architectures and associated compute / memory trade-offs.

Domain-Specific Knowledge (preferred but not mandatory)

• Understanding of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and their control requirements.
• Knowledge of mixed-signal and analog / digital integration challenges.
• Experience with integrating novel hardware into AI training and inference pipelines.

Why us

• Make growing demand in compute and sustainability go hand in hand
• Work on leading edge photonic AI acceleration technologies.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Own your work from day one and fast-track your professional growth.
• Work alongside a passionate international cross-functional team of experts.
• Collaborate closely with the companys founders and core leadership team.

About us

Who we are and what we do

is a photonic deep-tech scale-up developing photonic processing solutions that compute natively with light and deliver a scalable alternative to transistor-based systems. Its Light Empowered Native Arithmetics (LENA) architecture delivers analog co-processing power optimised for complex computation and enabling energy-efficient performance for next-generation AI and HPC applications. operates its own Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) chip pilot line in collaboration with the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart IMS CHIPS and is currently shipping its Native Processing Servers to selected partners. was founded by Michael Förtsch in 2018 and is headquartered in Stuttgart Germany.

Required Experience : Senior IC

Key Skills

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• Classroom Experience
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• Research Experience
• Teaching
• Grant Writing
• Leadership Experience
• Mentoring
• Public Speaking
• Writing Skills

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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