Sr. Fellow System Integration Architect for Processor-Based Systems

Your mission

To provide technical leadership and define the architecture of processor-based systems by overseeing the integration of digital, analog, and high-frequency electrical designs, managing lab bring-up and validation activities, and guiding processor design teams to ensure robust, high-performance, and manufacturable systems that meet business objectives and accelerate product development cycles.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for the definition, integration, and bring-up of processor-based systems, including all peripheral subsystems.
• Oversee system-level electrical design, both digital and analog, ensuring performance and signal integrity at GHz frequencies.
• Coordinate activities across processor design, board/system hardware, firmware, and validation.
• Act as the primary decision-maker for system architecture trade-offs involving performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost.
• Guide lab bring-up activities, ensuring efficient debug, test coverage, and functional validation of new systems.
• Mentor senior engineers and provides architectural guidance to processor design teams to ensure alignment with overall system requirements.
• Ensure first-pass success of complete processor-based systems through expert oversight from architecture to lab validation.
• Reduce development cycle time by anticipating and resolving cross-domain integration issues early.
• Maintain system performance leadership through optimal integration of high-speed interfaces, analog subsystems, and processor core functions.

Your profile

Education: Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field; equivalent industry experience considered.

Technical Expertise
I. 20+ years of experience in high-performance system design and integration, including processor-based platforms.
II. Deep expertise in:

• System architecture definition and integration planning.
• High-speed digital design (GHz-range interfaces, signal integrity, power integrity).
• Mixed-signal and analog subsystem integration.
• Lab bring-up, debug, and validation methodologies.
• High-speed interconnect standards (PCIe, DDR, SerDes, etc.).

III. Proven record of guiding processor design teams to meet system-level requirements.

Leadership and Coordination Skills

• Exceptional ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Skilled in resolving cross-domain technical challenges in fast-paced environments.
• Strong mentoring capability for senior technical staff.

Why us?

• Make growing demand in compute and sustainability go hand in hand
• Work on leading edge photonic AI acceleration technologies.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Own your work from day one and fast-track your professional growth.
• Work alongside a passionate, international, cross-functional team of experts.
• Collaborate closely with the company’s founders and core leadership team.

About us

Who we are and what we do

Q.ANT is a photonic deep-tech scale-up developing photonic processing solutions that compute natively with light and deliver a scalable alternative to transistor-based systems. Its Light Empowered Native Arithmetics (LENA) architecture delivers analog co-processing power optimised for complex computation and enabling energy-efficient performance for next-generation AI and HPC applications. Q.ANT operates its own Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) chip pilot line in collaboration with the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart, IMS CHIPS, and is currently shipping its Native Processing Servers to selected partners. Q.ANT was founded by Michael Förtsch in 2018 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.