Hybrid UK Photonic Layout Engineer: Python & Verification

Salience Labs; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Salience Labs Limited is seeking a Photonic Layout Engineer to join the Photonics team, contributing to physical design, verification and development of advanced integrated photonic devices. You will translate device and circuit requirements into fabrication-ready layouts and help improve internal design workflows.

This UK-based, hybrid role offers progression toward mid or senior level and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, with a focus on reliability and repeatability of photonic

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a closely related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience with photonic IC layout and/or silicon photonics layouts.

Responsibilities

• Develop physical layouts for integrated photonic components, structures and larger designs.
• Translate device and circuit requirements into fabrication-ready layouts.
• Perform design verification including DRC and LVS.
• Support designs through full layout and verification process.
• Develop and improve software-based workflows for photonic layout and design automation.
• Use Python and layout/EDA tools to create, manipulate and verify layouts.
• Maintain and contribute to internal component and design libraries.
• Review layouts for fabrication constraints and potential failure sources.
• Collaborate with photonic design, testing and wider engineering teams.
• Improve layout methodology, tooling and verification processes.
• Aim to make photonic design workflows more repeatable and efficient.

Skills

Photonic layout

Python programming

DRC/LVS verification

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Photonics, Electrical Engineering, or related

Tools

Python

EDA tools

Job description

Salience Labs Limited is seeking a Photonic Layout Engineer to join the Photonics team, contributing to physical design, verification and development of advanced integrated photonic devices. You will translate device and circuit requirements into fabrication-ready layouts and help improve internal design workflows.

This UK-based, hybrid role offers progression toward mid or senior level and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, with a focus on reliability and repeatability of photonic