Staff Engineer: Silicon Photonics & AI-Enabled Optical Systems

VIAVI Solutions; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

VIAVI Solutions in Singapore seeks an experienced Staff Engineer, Silicon Photonics & Optical Systems to join the CTO Innovation Center. You will help design and validate next-generation silicon photonics devices, PICs, and optical interconnects for AI data centers and high-speed networks.

You will lead development of automated test platforms, AI-assisted measurement methods, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across research, product engineering, and manufacturing to push optical innovation

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, Applied Physics, Optical Engineering, Materials Science, or closely related discipline.
• Strong understanding of silicon photonics, integrated photonic circuits, optical communications, and photonic device physics.
• Hands-on experience designing, characterizing, or validating optical components and integrated photonic systems.
• Experience with laboratory optical measurement equipment such as OSA, VNA, BERT, optical power meters, tunable lasers, coherent receivers, sampling oscilloscopes, and high-speed optical instrumentation.
• Experience developing automated laboratory test environments using Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW, or equivalent software tools.
• Strong analytical, experimental, and troubleshooting skills with the ability to translate research concepts into practical engineering solutions.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and evaluate next-generation silicon photonic devices, PICs, optical engines, and advanced interconnect technologies.
• Lead R&D activities in silicon photonics, coherent optics, CPO, LPO, optical I/O, and AI data center optical architectures.
• Develop advanced optical characterization methodologies for photonic components and coherent transceivers.
• Design laboratory validation platforms and automated optical test solutions for product development and manufacturing.
• Develop AI-assisted optical measurement techniques to improve speed, accuracy, and predictive quality analysis.
• Support optical component qualification, reliability analysis, environmental testing, and production yield optimization.
• Partner with foundries and ecosystem partners to accelerate technology commercialization.
• Contribute to roadmaps spanning telecommunications, AI infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, and photonic computing.

Skills

Silicon photonics

Integrated PICs

Optical communications

Automated testing

Lab troubleshooting

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Strong communication

Education

MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering / Photonics / Applied Physics / Optical Engineering / Materials Science

Tools

Python

MATLAB

LabVIEW

OSA / VNA / BERT

Job description

VIAVI Solutions in Singapore seeks an experienced Staff Engineer, Silicon Photonics & Optical Systems to join the CTO Innovation Center. You will help design and validate next-generation silicon photonics devices, PICs, and optical interconnects for AI data centers and high-speed networks.

You will lead development of automated test platforms, AI-assisted measurement methods, and cross-disciplinary collaboration across research, product engineering, and manufacturing to push optical innovation