Engineering Manager - High-Speed Digital & Optical Solutions (Teradyne, North Reading, MA)

Teradyne•North Reading, MA

2d•$158,600 - $253,800

About The Position

The Engineering Manager – High-Speed Digital & Optical Solutions serves as the technical and people leader for High-Speed Digital, Optical Communications, Silicon Photonics, and advanced AI data center physical-layer technologies. The role leads a multidisciplinary engineering team and acts as a primary technical interface for strategic customers throughout the solution lifecycle, from technology evaluation and architectural planning through deployment and production ramp. The manager partners across customer, R&D, product management, sales, validation, and manufacturing organizations to define measurement strategies that improve productivity, reduce development risk, and accelerate time-to-market.

Requirements

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Photonics, Physics, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
10+ years of experience in applications engineering, design validation, product engineering, manufacturing test, or solution development involving high-speed digital and/or optical technologies.
Demonstrated experience leading technical teams, programs, or complex cross-functional engineering initiatives.
Strong understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, channel characterization, and compliance methodologies.
Deep knowledge of PAM4, NRZ, equalization techniques, jitter analysis, BER measurements, and channel modeling.
Hands-on experience with optical communication systems and transceiver technologies, including QSFP-DD, OSFP, OSFP-XD, and future pluggable architectures.
Direct experience with real-time and sampling oscilloscopes, Digital Communication Analyzers, BERTs, VNAs, optical spectrum and lightwave component analyzers, protocol and logic analyzers, and optical sources and power meters.
Strong understanding of IEEE, OIF, PCI-SIG, JEDEC, Ethernet, CXL, and related industry standards.
Excellent customer-facing communication, technical presentation, collaboration, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.
Willingness to travel regionally within South Asia Pacific.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for applications, validation, characterization, and solution development, while setting technical direction, priorities, and resource plans.
Develop advanced validation and characterization solutions for optical transceivers from 400G through 1.6T and beyond, Silicon Photonics, CPO and NPO, AI accelerator interconnects, Ethernet, InfiniBand, DDR5, DDR6, HBM, and CXL.
Collaborate with strategic customers, architects, R&D leaders, validation engineers, and manufacturing teams to understand requirements and resolve complex technical challenges from evaluation through production ramp.
Build reusable measurement methodologies and integrated workflows for signal integrity, power integrity, channel characterization, jitter, eye-diagram analysis, BER validation, compliance testing, automation, and data analytics.
Support sales engagements, proof-of-concept evaluations, competitive benchmarking, demonstrations, and strategic design wins that expand Teradyne’s footprint within key accounts.
Partner with product management and R&D to translate customer requirements and market trends into product-roadmap input, beta validation, and feature-prioritization feedback.
Mentor team members, support hiring and onboarding, strengthen technical capabilities, and foster an inclusive culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Monitor emerging standards, represent the company at technical forums and customer events, and develop application notes, articles, webinars, and conference presentations.