Senior Silicon Photonics Design Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design, simulate, and optimize photonic components such as modulators, passive devices, and detectors for silicon photonic integrated circuits.
• Perform tolerance analysis to ensure component reliability and performance under varying conditions.
• Lead test chip development, including design, layout, tapeout, testing, and validation.
• Analyze test data, identify performance gaps, and drive improvement strategies to optimize PIC component designs.
• Develop and implement modeling methodologies for photonic components and propose new test methodologies.
• Conduct research in next-generation photonic architectures and technologies to drive innovation and intellectual property development.
• Collaborate across diverse engineering disciplines to align designs with system-level requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optical Science, or a related field with 4+ years of experience; Master's degree with 3+ years of experience; or Ph.D. with 1+ years of experience.
• Experience should include 4+ years Photonics device design and simulation.
• 4+ years Optical design and simulation tools such as Lumerical (FDTD, MODE, DEVICE, Interconnect), RSoft, or Tidy3D.
• 4+ years Hands-on experience in photonic integrated circuit design, from concept to high-volume manufacturing.
• 4+ years Photonic test methodologies and equipment, including optical spectrum analyzers, tunable lasers, and optical vector analyzers.
• 4+ years with layout tools such as Cadence and KLayout to support PIC tapeouts.
• 4+ years managing statistical analysis of photonic test data using tools like JMP or programming languages such as Python or Matlab.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to advanced passive or active silicon photonic components such as ring modulators, MZIs, filters, or polarization splitters.
• Experience in inverse design methodologies and circuit-level simulations.
• Knowledge of system-level link modeling, Monte Carlo analysis, and optical coupling solutions.
• Understanding of advanced electronic ICs and integration with photonic systems, including drivers, TIAs, DSPs, and modulators.
• Strong communication skills to present designs and findings to cross-functional teams effectively.