Layout and Automation Design Engineer

Try&Hire; Ecublens; On-site; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Try&Hire in Ecublens, Switzerland, is seeking a proactive photonics layout engineer with strong automation scripting. You will execute layouts for passive/active photonic components, design test structures, and maintain an automation library using GDSfactory/IPKISS and Python.

Collaboration with process/yield teams and data-led layout optimization are key aspects of the role. Ideal candidates hold a MSc or PhD in photonics and have 3+ years of hands-on experience, with Git versioning and fluent

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in photonics or a related field.
• Minimum 3+ years hands-on experience in integrated optics layout and/or automation programming.
• Expert competence with layout tools such as GDSfactory or IPKISS.
• Expert proficiency in Python programming for automation and scripting.
• Familiarity with code versioning such as Git.
• Familiarity with dataset analysis linking experimental data to physical layout features.
• Working proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Execute layout of passive and active photonic components and full circuits.
• Contribute to component design and perform DRC and LVS checks.
• Develop and maintain internal layout component library and automation scripts.
• Interface with process and yield engineering teams on manufacturing requirements.
• Design test structures to monitor fabrication capabilities.
• Support characterization team with data extraction and test planning.
• Document scripts, layout methodologies and library components.

Skills

Python automation

Integrated optics layout

Automation scripting

Education

MSc or PhD in photonics

Tools

GDSfactory

IPKISS

Python

Git

Job description

This role focuses on the layout and automation of photonic integrated circuit designs, combining layout engineering with software automation for a photonics design team.

Your tasks

• Execute layout of passive and active photonic components and full circuits
• Contribute to component design and perform DRC and LVS checks
• Develop and maintain internal layout component library and automation scripts
• Interface with process and yield engineering teams on manufacturing requirements
• Design test structures to monitor fabrication capabilities
• Support characterization team with data extraction and test planning
• Document scripts, layout methodologies and library components

What you bring

• MSc or PhD in photonics or a related field
• Minimum 3+ years hands-on experience in integrated optics layout and/or automation programming
• Expert competence with layout tools such as GDSfactory or IPKISS
• Expert proficiency in Python programming for automation and scripting
• Familiarity with code versioning such as Git
• Familiarity with dataset analysis linking experimental data to physical layout features
• Working proficiency in English

Conditions

• Workload: 100 %
• Option of a permanent position after the assignment if both sides want it

Technologies

• GDSfactory
• IPKISS
• Python
• Git