Photonics Engineer: AI-Driven Photonic ICs for Quantum

Entangled Future; Boston (MA); Híbrido; USD 128.000 - 208.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity grants

Competitive base salary

Descripción de la vacante

QuEra Computing in Boston, MA seeks a mid-level Photonics Engineer to join the hardware engineering team. You will lead photonic IC development and automation efforts to accelerate tapeouts.

The role combines design, simulation, layout, and test across photonics workflows, with collaboration across quantum scientists to integrate components into full systems. A strong background in PICs and Python is expected.

Formación

• Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Physics, or 4+ years of photonics IC experience.
• Strong hands-on experience across PIC workflows from simulation to layout, fabrication, and testing.
• Proven ability to automate engineering tasks with Python and AI tools.
• Interest in photonic design automation, large-scale layout, high-volume testing, or photonics systems control.
• Publications, patents, or shipped products demonstrate impact.

Responsabilidades

• Lead tapeouts of high-performance photonic and optoelectronic components and circuits.
• Own and build out AI-driven component development pipelines, starting with the layout pipeline.
• Collaborate with foundry partners through design–fab–test cycles, translating PDK constraints into faster convergence.
• Contribute across photonics workflow: device design, simulation, layout, test, and system-level experiments.
• Work with interdisciplinary team to integrate photonic components into complete quantum computing systems.

Conocimientos

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs)

Python programming

Automation of engineering workflows

AI/ML for device design or layout

Educación

Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Physics

Herramientas

Lumerical

Tidy3D

gdsfactory

KLayout

gdspy

IPKISS

Descripción del empleo

QuEra Computing in Boston, MA seeks a mid-level Photonics Engineer to join the hardware engineering team. You will lead photonic IC development and automation efforts to accelerate tapeouts.

The role combines design, simulation, layout, and test across photonics workflows, with collaboration across quantum scientists to integrate components into full systems. A strong background in PICs and Python is expected.