Director, Technology Development

Koch•Lisle, IL

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Director, Technology Development will have the ability to evaluate the Datacenter/AI rack market and customers, recognize trends and set forth a plan to penetrate business opportunities/applications that will deploy an (AEC) Active electrical cable architecture. This individual will define the customer engagement strategy specific to the AEC engineering teams and work with the organization for execution. Responsibilities will also include the coordination of product support functions targeting customer qualification requirements (Application engineering, Firmware, interop testing, etc.).

Requirements

Bachelor degree in Engineering or related technical discipline (Optics, RF signal integrity, SW)
At least 7 years of optical / copper transceiver module development (High speed communication systems) and program/project management
Experience in DSP/Retimers, FW (CMIS), HW, Design and test
Experience developing customer relationships at the leadership level
Experience communicating across all levels of business and executive leadership presence
Business acumen to deliver high level communication in the specified field

Responsibilities

Engage customer engineering teams supporting both networking and compute hardware specific to host (switch) to module (NIC card) cabling applications.
Identifies product and application trends/opportunities to drive next gen product roadmaps.
Support application engineering during system bring up/debug (Host to module).
Establish partnerships with the AEC eco system (DSP-retimer) suppliers.