Senior PIC Design Engineer - Photonic ICs (Hybrid, Equity)

Photonic Inc.; Coquitlam; Hybrid; CAD 163,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Relocation assistance

Extended health

Dental

Life insurance

Long-term disability

Employee assistance program

Parental leave top-ups

Flexible spending account

Job summary

Photonic Inc. in British Columbia, Canada, is seeking a Principal PIC Design Engineer to design and optimize photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for our quantum computing roadmap.

You will develop first-of-their-kind PICs and simulations for scalable quantum technologies within a multidisciplinary team. You will mentor PIC designers, device and nanofabrication engineers, and physicists while collaborating with foundries and suppliers to advance IP.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in electrical engineering or physics.
• 10+ years of experience with silicon photonics in an industrial setting.
• Familiarity in designing photonic layouts with KLayout, Luceda, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, or equivalent.
• Deep expertise in designing and optimizing silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and devices.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize complex active and passive, large-scale silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) at both the system and component level.
• Generate new software and scripts as required to meet design and analysis goals.
• Work with foundries and manufacturers.
• Conduct trade studies and analysis of alternatives (AoAs) to explore design options and their trade-offs for components.
• Propose and analyze experiments to validate and refine simulation models.

Skills

Silicon photonics

PIC design

Python

MATLAB

Lumerical

Electromagnetic simulation

Teamwork

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Master's or PhD in electrical engineering or physics

Tools

KLayout

Luceda

Cadence

Mentor Graphics

HFSS

Tidy3D

COMSOL

Sentaurus

Silvaco TCAD

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Photonic Inc. in British Columbia, Canada, is seeking a Principal PIC Design Engineer to design and optimize photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for our quantum computing roadmap.

You will develop first-of-their-kind PICs and simulations for scalable quantum technologies within a multidisciplinary team. You will mentor PIC designers, device and nanofabrication engineers, and physicists while collaborating with foundries and suppliers to advance IP.