Join Ranovus as a System Designer
Location: Nuremberg, Germany
Company: Ranovus – Innovating the Future of Data Center Connectivity
Team: System Design Team
About Us
At Ranovus, we’re powering the next generation of data center infrastructure with cutting-edge fiber-optic communication technologies. With operations in Ottawa (Canada), Nuremberg (Germany), and San Jose (USA), we’re on a mission to deliver high-performance solutions that reduce environmental impact through lower power consumption.
What You’ll Do
As a System Design Engineer at Ranovus, you will model and analyze complex optical and electrical transmission systems to optimize performance and reliability. This role involves system-level design, simulation, and validation of high-speed interconnect solutions for next-generation data center and networking applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop system-level models of optical and electrical transmission systems using MATLAB or similar tools.
- Perform link budget analysis, signal integrity studies, and evaluate system performance under various conditions.
- Simulate impairments and noise sources to predict real-world behavior and optimize design parameters.
- Collaborate with ASIC, photonics, and hardware teams to define system architecture and interface requirements.
- Analyze trade-offs between power, bandwidth, latency, and cost for different design approaches.
- Support system validation and characterization, correlating simulation results with lab measurements.
- Document modeling methodologies, assumptions, and results for internal and external stakeholders.
Required Skills
- Strong proficiency in MATLAB for system modeling and simulation.
- Solid understanding of optical communication principles, high-speed electrical signaling, and transmission line theory.
- Knowledge of link budgets, BER analysis, and modulation formats.
- Familiarity with signal integrity concepts (jitter, crosstalk, insertion loss).
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and communicate technical concepts clearly.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with photonic components (lasers, modulators, detectors) and their integration into systems.
- Exposure to ASIC design flow and high-speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet).
- Knowledge of simulation tools beyond MATLAB (e.g., Python, Simulink, ADS).
Why Ranovus?
Because we don’t just build chips—we build the future. Join a team that values innovation, collaboration, and impact.
Skills Required
- Strong proficiency in MATLAB for system modeling and simulation
- Solid understanding of optical communication principles, high-speed electrical signaling, and transmission line theory
- Knowledge of link budgets, BER analysis, and modulation formats
- Familiarity with signal integrity concepts
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and communicate technical concepts clearly
What We Do
The world-class team of scientist and engineers at Ranovus is comprised of professionals with a unique combination of decades of expertise in product development of optoelectronics components and transceiver subsystems for the information technology industry. Ranovus' disruptive innovation in Quantum Dot Multi-Wavelength Laser combined with advanced digital and photonics integrated circuit technologies is setting a new industry benchmark for the next generation of optical interconnect solutions. Our technology delivers significant reduction in power dissipation, size and cost of interconnects, and enables a much higher degree of distortion tolerance compared to traditional solutions, thereby enabling a "freeway" architecture to reduce network latency.
