Senior Staff Engineer - Technical Standards – Wired Data Center - Qualcomm - rem
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- PhD
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Technical Standards Engineering General Summary:
As a senior Technical Standards contributor and participant, you will work closely with internal and external partners to improve and evolve industry technical standards while representing Qualcomm as a delegate in standardization forums and industry organizations. Your responsibility will include understanding data center industry landscapes and competitors' strength and weaknesses, collaborating with internal partners to identify existing and emerging standards for Qualcomm to focus on, help review and guide internal product requirements and specifications for conformance with the standards, and working with attorneys to file patents that protect the novel IP aspects of any inventions.
The primary focus for this role is wired connectivity infrastructure involving high-speed optical and electrical SerDes standards for core data center infrastructure. This includes the implications of solving problems across photonics, packaging, materials science, and system architecture.
Direct experience with IEEE 802.3 and OIF. Aware of related developments in other data center interconnect standards ecosystems including OCI MSA, OCP, UEC, and UALink.
Deep understanding of 200G, 400G and forward-looking 800G/1.6T Ethernet rate evolution, including PAM4/PAM6 modulation, FEC, equalization, channel loss, BER targets and link-budget tr