Our award-winning client is seeking a Principal Architect to join their team. The Principal Architect is responsible for leading and conducting research and innovation of optical communication technologies for the cable industry. This includes ideation, designing, characterizing, and prototyping advanced technologies for future optical access networks. The Principal Architect works closely with cable operators, technology partners, and academia to define the next-generation optical technologies for the broadband access network ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and contribute to coherent optical projects for next-generation passive optical networks (PONs).

• Configure end-to-end optical links and conduct performance characterization of coherent optical burst receivers, including detailed experimental validation of the components and digital algorithms.

• Design and optimize digital signal processing algorithms for both continuous-mode and burst-mode coherent transceivers in access networks.

• Originate and innovate new technologies for the next-generation optical access network architectures and systems.

• Lead and contribute to innovation projects that optimize and enhance convergence of optical and wireless/mobile radio access networks.

• Ideate and develop low complexity coherent transceivers for access applications.

• Contribute to forward error correction (FEC) encoding/decoding, modeling, simulation, data collection, and digital signal processing for channel estimation.

• Lead and support proof of concept demonstrations, lab testing, and field trial testing.

• Collaborate with cable operators, optical technology vendors, and the academic community.

• Interface with optical technology vendors to develop products based on next-generation PON specifications.

• Explore and support co-development and co-innovation projects.

• Support academic partnerships, industry regulatory policy experts, and execute and publish related research.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with high-speed optical and electrical test, measurement equipment control and data acquisition.

• Experience of free-space optics, fiber sensing, semiconductor lasers, and opto-electronics.

• Understanding fiber optic channel and digital communication theory.

• Expertise of optical coherent and direct detection systems, modeling, testing, debugging, and digital signal processing.

• In-depth understanding of operation and functioning of MAC layers for point-to-multipoint topology.

• Knowledge in optical, cable, and wireless access networks and the corresponding standards and specifications (DOCSIS, Wi-Fi, LTE, 5G, xPON).

• Proficient in MATLAB or Python/C/C++ programming language and optical simulation tools.

• Required Experience:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Applied Physics, or equivalent experience.

• PhD in a similar field(s) is preferred.

• 8+ years of simulation and lab expertise in optical and wireless/mobile communication systems and networks.