Photonics Architect: Design Data-Center Optics

Lightmatter; Mountain View (WY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Med, D

Retirement Savings Matching Program

Equity grants (applicable to full-time

Flexible, hybrid workplace model

Job summary

Lightmatter is hiring a Photonics Architect to define the micro-architecture for a ground-breaking photonic-based communication fabric. You will partner with the internal engineering team to translate designs into architectural documentation and detailed specifications for the production path.

The role requires a PhD in a related field, deep photonics knowledge, and experience with silicon photonics and photonic simulation tools.

Qualifications

• PhD in electrical engineering, physics, applied physics, or a discipline related to photonics.
• In-depth knowledge of photonic devices and semiconductor physics.
• Experience with integrated silicon photonics components.
• Experience with photonic simulation tools: FDTD, Verilog-A, VPI Photonics.
• Ability and desire to collaborate in a cross-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrated strong problem solving skills specifically pertaining to problems that do not have obvious solutions.

Responsibilities

• Propose innovative photonic designs—modulators, receivers, multiplexers, lasers, amplifiers—for the product.
• Work closely with the photonic engineering design team to provide the performance, power, and area estimates of the photonic devices within Passage.
• Actively collaborate with the analog engineering team to provide a high-bandwidth photonic interconnect solution.
• Author, review, and validate architectural specifications.

Skills

Photonic devices

Semiconductor physics

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Problem solving

Education

PhD in Electrical Engineering / Physics / Applied Physics

Tools

FDTD

Verilog-A

VPI Photonics

Job description

Lightmatter is hiring a Photonics Architect to define the micro-architecture for a ground-breaking photonic-based communication fabric. You will partner with the internal engineering team to translate designs into architectural documentation and detailed specifications for the production path.

The role requires a PhD in a related field, deep photonics knowledge, and experience with silicon photonics and photonic simulation tools.