Staff Photonics Design Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design and optimize silicon photonic devices for laser systems, including couplers, muxes, rings, switches, and other active and passive components.
• Layout device test structures as well as complex integrated photonic systems.
• Work with the characterization team to develop and execute test plans for device validation, analyzing results to assess performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Work closely with packaging and systems engineering teams to address integration challenges, ensuring high alignment between device and system requirements.
• Implement rigorous simulation, modeling, and testing methodologies to calibrate designs and optimize performance across manufacturing variability.
• Engage in problem solving and contribute to new device designs and architectures.
• Publish novel photonics results, and participate in premier optics/photonics conferences.

Required Qualifications

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or related discipline with 3 years of industry experience
• Experience in silicon photonics device design, layout, and testing, ideally in a product development environment
• Demonstrated track record of designing integrated silicon photonics components using Lumerical, Tidy3D, or equivalent
• Proficiency in modeling and data analysis in Python
• Experience with integrated lasers, SOAs
• Excellent communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams
• Demonstrate strong problem solving skills in problems that do not have obvious solutions
• Can-do, positive attitude

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience doing layout with foundry PDKs
• Experience with code-based GDS creation such as GDS Factory or similar
• Experience with optical and electronic test equipment, wafer-level testing and statistical data analysis (e.g., optical spectrum analyzers, tunable lasers, OBR/OVA, oscilloscopes, BERT).
• Strong project execution skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities and meet project milestones.