SiPho Device Engineer

About the role

Responsible for research, development, and improvement of existing and newly developed devices and process technologies for manufacture of Silicon Photonics-related devices in a semiconductor wafer foundry. The employee exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria.

Responsibilities

• Process technology development and implementation in a VLSI manufacturing, foundry environment.
• Silicon photonic device design, characterization, and optimization.
• Participate in and coordinate experiments toward technology development and yield enhancement.
• Work with process engineering team, test team, and customers to define goals and manufacturing solutions.
• Design test structures (in CAD environment) and define tests for device characterization (ICCAP, LabView).
• Provide support to resolve customer issues, problems, and questions.
• Support transfer from development to production for process variants.
• Support process transfer to worldwide fabrication facilities if needed.

Requirements

• PhD preferred in engineering discipline: Electrical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Physics, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Silicon Photonics-related process and device development role or 5-year PhD program in a related field.
• Very strong analytical and people skills.
• Expert-level understanding of silicon photonic and optoelectronic devices.

Skills

• Experience with optical simulation software (e.g., Lumerical).
• Ability to read and edit mask layout data (e.g., Cadence Virtuoso software).
• Experience with statistical data processing software (e.g., R or JMP).
• Device and process TCAD simulation tools (e.g., Medici, Sentaurus, etc.).
• Experience with semiconductor fab lot management software (e.g., PROMIS or Workstream).