# Senior System Architect Engineer

Senior System Architect Ottawa, ON, Canada | Full-Time | Ranovus ABOUT RANOVUS Ranovus is a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, developing next-generation co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions for AI and data center interconnects. Our Odin optical engine integrates a Quantum Dot Multi-Wavelength Laser, Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC), and ASIC into a single co-packaged module - delivering the performance and density required by hyperscale AI infrastructure. ABOUT THE ROLE The Senior System Architect is a founding member of the Ranovus System Team, responsible for owning top-level architecture decisions and orchestrating definition of design requirements with the block level owners from the contributing technical domains. You will define the system partitioning and power-performance-cost-yield-manufacturability trade-offs for the Odin CPO platform, and ensure that architecture choices are manufacturable, testable, and reliable from day one. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Define and issue Technical Engineering Requirements (TERs) to all sub-teams as the primary architectural authority. Own top-level system architecture assessment: PIC, ASIC, Laser, and Packaging parti

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- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ranovus-senior-system-architect-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
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- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
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- **Locations**: Ottawa, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
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- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Optics & Photonic Components

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- **Name**: Ranovus
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