Software Engineer - Technical Lead - Acacia

The application window is expected to close on 5/09/25. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Acacia designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G and 1T bit speed fiber optic transmission market deployed in data center, metro, long-haul and ultra-long haul telecommunication networks.

Acacia's software team is responsible for embedded CPU code development to configure and manage our products. We collaborate with Chip, DSP and Optics architects to drive innovation in our products.

You will design complex optical sub-systems that go into future Acacia SOCs, as well as architect embedded firmware solutions and driving requirements for future platforms. You will interface with the wider cross-functional engineering team to architect the system software, develop algorithms, contribute to code development, and participate in system bring up and low-level RTOS debug.

• Bachelors + 8 years, or Masters + 6 years of experience in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or Computer Science in the telecommunications industry
• Experience in C++ and C
• Experience in complex embedded firmware development (both control and data path) in telecommunications industry
• Experience in Embedded systems firmware architecture, design and development for Optical transceivers, and High-speed Mixed-signal components.
• Experience leading software/firmware teams and driving cross-functional requirements across other engineering and product teams.
• Experience with RTOS and embedded CPUs and microcontrollers (ARM preferred)

• 10 years of software development experience in the telecommunications industry.
• Experience in high level system design to low level driver development.
• Experience working within a team environment developing complex control-plane code in a multi-processor/multithreaded environment.
• Experience with developing/debugging software state machines.
• Experience writing compact highly efficient code to control HW components.
• Experience with a revision control system and defect tracking systems (Perforce, GIT, Bugzilla, JIRA)
• Experience with collaborative code review tools (such as Jira Crucible).
• Experience with UNIX-style command-line development (make, shell programming, Python)
• Experience presenting technical information to technical and non-technical audiences
• Contributed to industry-standards and specifications in the Optical networking domain.

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