Photonics Design Engineer

Ayosemi; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ayosemi is seeking a photonics design engineer to join a core early-stage team in Boston. You will extend the InP platform, design, analyze, and test photonic circuits, and bridge electronics and systems for prototype bring-up.

You will participate in the full design-tapeout-test-analyze cycle and advance device capabilities. The ideal candidate holds a PhD with a strong optics background and experience taping out photonic devices, using tools like Ansys/Lumerical, and scripting in Python to

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent advanced degree in a related field with focus on integrated photonics is required.
• Experience designing, simulating, and testing integrated photonic devices.
• Proficiency with Python for data analysis and scripting.
• Experience using commercial simulation tools (Ansys/Lumerical, Tidy3D, Rsoft or similar).
• Has taped out at least once.

Responsibilities

• Design/optimize integrated optical components.
• Lay out photonic integrated circuits for testing and prototyping.
• Collect and analyze test data from circuits.
• Develop and maintain models of components informed by physics and data.
• Provide expertise and support to other team members.

Skills

Python

Education

PhD in optics, electrical engineering, physics or related field with a focus on integrated photonics

Tools

Ansys/Lumerical

Tidy3D

Rsoft

Job description

Come build the future of compute with us.

Location

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Ayo is a venture-backed early-stage startup that will radically re-define how humanity performs compute for AI. Our photonic processors will provide orders of magnitude improvement in speed and power efficiency in comparison to conventional digital compute platforms by taking advantage of the natural parallelism, speed and energy efficiency of light.

We are seeking a photonics design engineer to serve as a core team member who will be among the first employees of the company. The engineer will expand Ayo’s component library in Ayo’s custom InP platform; design, analyze, and test photonic circuits and sub-circuits; and support the electronics / systems teams to design and bring-up prototypes. As a core member of the photonics team, they will participate in all phases of the design-tapeout-test-analyze cycle. The ideal candidate has strong fundamentals in integrated optics, experience designing and laying out integrated optical devices or systems, and has a desire to explore the limits of what is possible in an exciting new integrated optics platform.

Responsibilities

• Design/optimize integrated optical components
• Lay out photonic integrated circuits that test devices, demonstrate sub-system capabilities, and are full prototype chips
• Collect and analyze test data from test circuits
• Develop and maintain models of components, informed by underlying physics and measured data
• Provide expertise and support to other Ayo team members

Qualifications

• PhD in optics, electrical engineering, physics or related field with a focus on integrated photonics
• Experience designing, simulating, and testing integrated photonic devices
• Experience using commercial simulation tools (such as Ansys/Lumerical, Tidy3D, Rsoft or similar)
• Has taped out at least once
• Proficiency with Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with script-based device/circuit layout
• Experience designing and laying out photonic integrated circuits
• Experience probing/testing photonic integrated circuits