Photonics Engineer - LiDAR & FSOC Systems

Analog Photonics LLC.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Analog Photonics is a Boston-based silicon photonics company developing high-performance photonic integrated circuits for LiDAR, free-space optical communications, data communications and defense systems. Our designs, including the world's best optical phased arrays, are built on a proprietary 300mm CMOS-foundry silicon photonics platform optimized for low cost, high reliability and high yield.

Engineers here work hands-on across the full design, build and test cycle, and your work goes directly

Qualifications

• MS with 2+ years of experience, or PhD, in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Optics or a related field.
• Hands-on optics lab experience: free-space alignment, fiber coupling to chips, and optical and RF test equipment.
• Experience testing integrated photonic devices or systems.
• Python or MATLAB for instrument control and data analysis.
• Sound understanding of coherent detection, noise and link budgets.

Responsibilities

• Characterize silicon photonic chips and packaged modules: optical phased array beam patterns, steering, side-lobe levels, insertion loss, phase-shifter and modulator response.
• Build and run system-level experiments: FMCW ranging, coherent links, bit-error-rate and link-budget measurements, indoor and outdoor range tests.
• Design and assemble free-space and fiber setups with tunable lasers, amplifiers, photodetectors, cameras and beam profilers.
• Automate instruments and wafer- and die-level test in Python or MATLAB, and manage large data sets.
• Debug across optics, electronics and firmware with the electrical and FPGA teams.
• Write test reports for design reviews and customer deliverables, and feed results back into device and system design.

Skills

Optics lab experience

Coherent detection

Data analysis

Education

MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering or Optics

Tools

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Analog Photonics is a Boston-based silicon photonics company developing high-performance photonic integrated circuits for LiDAR, free-space optical communications, data communications and defense systems. Our designs, including the world's best optical phased arrays, are built on a proprietary 300mm CMOS-foundry silicon photonics platform optimized for low cost, high reliability and high yield.

Engineers here work hands-on across the full design, build and test cycle, and your work goes directly