Please help me choose between these two options

Staff AMS design Engineer at a startup called Lumilens that makes optical interconnects and (possibly Lead) Engineer at Cadence in the UCI Phy team that might move to Serdes in the future (their words). I have 9 years of work ex so in my mid 30s, female. I really really wanted to get into a Serdes team and right now Cadence seems like it won't be doing a Serdes architecture. On the other hand Lumilens is just going to be zero work life balance for the next few years, but it's the work I always …

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