Photonic IC Layout Engineer for Quantum Chips

IonQ; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

IonQ stock options

Annual performance bonus

Flexible hybrid working

Private medical and dental insurance

Job summary

IonQ in Oxford Ionics seeks a Photonic Layout Engineer to design and route photonic integrated circuits for our quantum processor units. You will work with scientists and fabrication engineers to bring photonic designs into production, driving tape-out readiness and layout verification.

You will collaborate across design, test, packaging and fabrication teams, producing Python-based layout files and advancing on-chip light delivery strategies for scalable qubit architectures.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Photonic IC layouts and devices.
• Experience with design rules for PICs and on-chip light delivery.
• 2+ years using Python for photonics mask layout tools (IPKISS, GDSFactory, Klayout).

Responsibilities

• Arrange and route photonic components on multi-layer chips.
• Produce reticle-size photonic layout files using Python scripts.
• Collaborate with scientists, photonic designers, test/packaging/fabrication engineers.
• Contribute to layout verification (DRC/LVS) and PDKs specific to IonQ.

Skills

PIC layouts

Photonic devices

Python for photonics

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Photonics/Physics/EE or related

Tools

Luceda IPKISS

GDSFactory

Klayout

Job description

IonQ in Oxford Ionics seeks a Photonic Layout Engineer to design and route photonic integrated circuits for our quantum processor units. You will work with scientists and fabrication engineers to bring photonic designs into production, driving tape-out readiness and layout verification.

You will collaborate across design, test, packaging and fabrication teams, producing Python-based layout files and advancing on-chip light delivery strategies for scalable qubit architectures.