System Engineer
Hyperscale Systems Engineer
Location: Remote, United States
Type: Full-time, permanent
Salary: $150,000 to $180,000 per year base
Travel: up to 30% during busy season
Reports to: Director, Emerging Technology GroupThe role
The US subsidiary of a global optical and connectivity manufacturer with more than 120 years of history is hiring a Hyperscale Systems Engineer for its Emerging Technology Group. You will own the technical roadmap for hyperscale AI cluster solutions across co-packaged optics, optical interconnect, networking, and compute architectures. The role shapes company strategy, solution roadmap, and external influence for large-scale AI infrastructure. You will guide internal R&D on priorities and partners, and represent the company as a technical voice at co-innovation forums, standards bodies, and industry conferences.
What you will be doing:
- Define, own, and maintain the technical roadmap for hyperscale AI cluster solutions across co-packaged optics, optical interconnect, networking, and compute architectures
- Track technology trends and product roadmaps of GPU and silicon photonics industry leaders, and turn them into guidance for R&DMaintain a current understanding of AI cluster and data center architectures, including scale-up and scale-out fabrics and rack to data center scale design
- Represent the company at co-innovation forums, working groups, and partner engagements to co-develop AI infrastructure solutions
- Deliver technical presentations and keynotes at industry conferences and customer briefings
- Engage with standards bodies and consortia to help shape emerging optics, interconnect, and networking standards
- Develop the partner and ecosystem strategy, including who to collaborate with and how those collaborations are structured
- Advise executive and R&D leadership on build versus partner decisions, competitive positioning, and long-term technology bets
- What we need from you
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, photonics, or a related field
- Deep, hands-on understanding of co-packaged optics, silicon photonics, and high-speed optical and electrical interconnect
- Strong command of AI cluster and data center architectures, including GPU compute, scale-up and scale-out networking, and rack to data center scale design
- Broad awareness of technologies enabling AI factories, such as high-radix switching, SerDes, advanced packaging, and optical transceivers
- Experience in systems engineering, data center or networking hardware, semiconductors, or optical interconnect, including senior or technical leadership responsibility
- Direct experience with co-packaged optics, silicon photonics, or high-speed interconnect development
- Experience assessing GPU, switching, and photonics ecosystems and their partner landscapes
- Strong presentation skills, with experience representing an organization at technical conferences or forums
- Ability to influence standards bodies and build consensus across external stakeholders
- Good to have
- Experience representing a company at industry conferences, co-innovation forums, or standards organizations
- An established network across hyperscaler, semiconductor, and optics ecosystems
- Compensation$150,000 to $180,000 per year base
Travel: up to 30% during busy season
For more information please contact: matthew.holden@clear-er.comI place across data center, power, and critical infrastructure roles. If this one is not the right fit but you work in this space, message me directly.