Senior Photonics Design Engineer - Passive Components

Neara

Santa Clara (CA)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 215,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

OpenLight is seeking a Senior Photonics Design Engineer - Passives to join its Silicon Photonics (SiPh) team in California. You will design and validate passive optical components on a heterogeneous silicon with III-V platform in a hybrid work setting.

The role requires deep expertise in passive SiPh devices, collaboration with PIC architects, process, layout, and test engineers, and development of compact models for the SiPh PDK. PhD and hands-on photonics experience are essential.

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Applied Material Science, Applied Physics or related discipline.
1+ years of relevant professional experience after your degree.
3+ years of experience (including graduate school) with FDTD and EME simulations.

Responsibilities

Design and simulate passive optical components including multimode interference couplers, direction couplers, polarization beam splitters, adiabatic transitions between waveguide layers, grating couplers, and spot size converters.
Generate datasheets, application notes, and user guides for devices.
Define device CAD layouts in close collaboration with process and layout engineers.
Develop compact models for OpenLight’s SiPh PDK.
Work with process engineers to define and optimize the device structures and processes.
Work closely with test engineering to define the test scope and requirements for devices on both wafer and die levels.
Work closely with PIC and system architects to validate device performance versus specifications.