Photonics Fabrication Process Engineer - Quantum Equity

Xanadu; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

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Job summary

Xanadu in Santa Barbara, CA seeks an entry-level Photonics Fabrication Process Engineer to join the Fabrication Process Engineering team. You will help deliver photonic quantum computing hardware by improving thin-film lithium niobate waveguides and electro-optic modulators, collaborating with physicists and engineers across the group.

You will contribute cleanroom, metrology, and data analysis expertise, defining experiments, and advancing process performance while interfacing with internal

Qualifications

• PhD in Physics, Engineering, Experimental Sciences, or related field with a focus on device fabrication, OR a Master's degree with 3+ years of cleanroom process development experience.
• Experience operating cleanroom tools including photolithography, deposition (PVD, CVD), wet & plasma etching (RIE, ICP), and characterization (e.g., XRR/XRD, SEM, AFM, Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence, ellipsometry).
• Knowledge of birefringent thin film stack metrology, characterization, and optimization.
• Experience developing cleanroom recipes and maintaining detailed process documentation.
• Experience with statistical process control.
• Experience working in a collaborative team-based development environment.
• Ability to operate autonomously in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple competing priorities.
• Experience with data analysis and related software, such as Python, GitHub, JMP, MATLAB, etc.
• Availability for travel required (≤ 20% travel time).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development and optimization of processes to build integrated photonic devices from thin film lithium niobate.
• Design and execute fabrication process improvement experiments, including defining fabrication splits and analyzing inline data.
• Define and execute metrology and failure analysis plans to identify and mitigate failure modes.
• Challenge state-of-the-art in performance metrics for integrated photonics fabrication.
• Stay abreast of new developments and rapidly implement learnings in fabrication process development.

Skills

Data analysis

Python

MATLAB

JMP

GitHub

Statistical process control

Team collaboration

Autonomous work

Education

PhD in Physics, Engineering or related with device fabrication

Master's + 3+ years cleanroom experience

Tools

Photolithography

PVD

CVD

RIE

ICP

XRR

XRD

SEM

AFM

Raman spectroscopy

Photoluminescence

Ellipsometry

Job description

Xanadu in Santa Barbara, CA seeks an entry-level Photonics Fabrication Process Engineer to join the Fabrication Process Engineering team. You will help deliver photonic quantum computing hardware by improving thin-film lithium niobate waveguides and electro-optic modulators, collaborating with physicists and engineers across the group.

You will contribute cleanroom, metrology, and data analysis expertise, defining experiments, and advancing process performance while interfacing with internal