Staff Photonics Design and Layout Engineer

Job summary

Responsibilities

If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders.

• Understand product requirements and work with customer-facing teams to help identify optimal photonics solutions
• Work on clean sheet design and layout of block- and system-level photonic circuits
• Work with analog, digital and packaging teams to ensure seamless integration of on-chip photonics with other subsystems
• Perform rigorous layout-driven photonic simulation and verification. Identify performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues.
• Help develop and improve photonic layout, verification and integration flows for multiple photonic processes and foundries

What they're looking for

• MS + 10 years or PhD + 3 years of industry experience in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or related discipline
• Excellent understanding of fundamental concepts of silicon photonics
• Familiarity with of a wide variety of silicon photonics devices, knowledge of their performance metrics and design trade-offs
• Proficiency with Python
• Experience with script-based photonic circuit design and layout using GDSFactory or similar

Tech stack

• Python