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MBRYONICS

Optical payloads and ground stations

High-Speed Electronic Design Engineer

Board & Electronics DesignPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeGalway, IrelandNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, RF/Microwave Engineering, or a related discipline is required.
  • At least 5 years of practical hardware engineering experience focused on high-speed digital, RF, or wideband analogue systems is required.
  • Practical expertise with industry-standard PCB tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro, or Mentor Xpedition is required.
  • Strong command of high-frequency layout practices, transmission line theory, return-path management, and SPICE-based circuit simulation is required.
  • Demonstrated experience developing wideband analogue front-ends and executing SPICE time- and frequency-domain simulations is required.
  • Direct experience troubleshooting and validating GHz-range hardware with standard RF test benches is required.
  • Skill in routing high-speed serial links and integrating them alongside primary control buses is required.

Responsibilities

  • Capture schematics and design wideband analog and electro-optical front-ends, including TIAs, high-speed drivers, and high-rate ADCs/DACs.
  • Drive high-speed PCB stackup design, controlled-impedance routing into tens of GHz, and pre- and post-layout signal and power integrity analysis, including S-parameters, eye diagrams, and PDN profiling.
  • Develop end-to-end electro-optical noise models, calculate bit error rates, and establish channel link budgets across electro-optical interfaces.
  • Partner with photonics specialists, mechanical engineers, and physicists to package RF/optical dies and optimize high-frequency interconnects.
  • Bring up, test, and characterize high-speed boards using lab equipment such as VNAs, BERTs, spectrum analyzers, and high-bandwidth oscilloscopes.
  • Guide designs from proof of concept through formal qualification testing and design reviews.
  • Generate technical documentation, including simulation reports, hardware qualification test procedures, interface control documents, and design review materials.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with 3D electromagnetic simulation tools such as ANSYS HFSS and Keysight ADS.
  • Familiarity with electro-optical components such as PICs, OSAs, and optical modulators.
  • Background in space qualification standards such as ECSS, MIL-STD, and AS9100, and radiation hardening.
  • Familiarity with FPGA transceivers such as SerDes/MGTs or thermal-mechanical modeling.
  • Knowledge of packaging electrical interconnects for photonic integrated circuits, optical sub-assemblies, flip-chip devices, and RF wire bonding.

About the Company

MBRYONICS

Optical payloads and ground stations

MBRYONICS designs, engineers, and manufactures optical payloads and ground stations for high-throughput hybrid Optical/RF satellite systems, optical mesh networks, relays, and autonomous space-sensor networks. Its products use photonics with industrialised production, applying MAIT processes, FreeForm optics, and photonic integrated circuits for inter-satellite and feeder links as well as intra-satellite communications and microwave photonics. The company differentiates itself by industrialising optical systems and enabling mass production through MAIT, FreeForm optics, and PICs tailored for space. Its goal is to enable scalable, reliable, high-throughput optical space networks by delivering integrated, manufacturable photonics solutions for next-generation satellite communications and space-domain sensing.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$6.5M
Headquarters
Galway, Ireland
Founded
2014

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