Global Program Manager, Silicon Photonics Scale-up

SCINTIL Photonics; Grenoble; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Scintil Photonics is scaling the industrial deployment of its silicon photonics technology and is seeking a Global Program Manager to lead execution of our most strategic development and industrialization programs.

Reporting directly to the COO, this role will drive cross-functional coordination across R&D, Process Engineering, Test Engineering, Packaging, Quality, and Operations, ensuring predictable execution as we deploy a company-wide stage-gate development framework.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years experience in semiconductor, Photonics, or advanced hardware development.
• Proven experience in NPI, industrialization, or yield ramp programs.
• Exposure to wafer fabrication, wafer-level testing, packaging, or reliability qualification.
• Strong experience leading cross-functional engineering programs.
• Familiarity with DFM, yield learning cycles, and manufacturing scale-up.
• Ability to bring structure and execution discipline in a fast-moving scale-up environment.

Responsibilities

• PIC industrialization and process qualification.
• Reliability campaigns (HTOL and lifetime testing).
• Yield ramp-up and Design-for-Manufacturing (DFM) initiatives.
• Cost reduction and manufacturing scalability programs.
• New process block development.
• Advanced PIC packaging industrialization.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

NPI & industrialization

Semiconductor/Photonics experience

DFM & yield learning

Scale-up manufacturing

Risk management

Structured execution

Job description

Scintil Photonics is scaling the industrial deployment of its silicon photonics technology and is seeking a Global Program Manager to lead execution of our most strategic development and industrialization programs.

Reporting directly to the COO, this role will drive cross-functional coordination across R&D, Process Engineering, Test Engineering, Packaging, Quality, and Operations, ensuring predictable execution as we deploy a company-wide stage-gate development framework.