Senior Photonics Process Integration Engineer

Xanadu; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Xanadu seeks a senior Fabrication Process Engineer to advance photonic quantum hardware. You will own fabrication modules, work with design teams to improve yield, and coordinate wafer lots with Xanadu’s foundry partners.

You will lead metrology plans and drive process improvements for electro-optic materials like thin film lithium niobate. You should have a PhD and 10+ years in a foundry environment, with proven ability to deliver low-loss integrated photonics and collaborate across teams and

Qualifications

• PhD in physics, materials science, electrical engineering or related field.
• ≥ 10 years in a foundry environment for semiconductor and/or integrated photonics products.
• Experience with full product development cycle from R&D through volume ramping.
• Experience coordinating with and managing external partners including major foundries.
• Experience with semiconductor fabrication process development and common process modules.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve low loss in integrated photonic components via fabrication development.
• Familiarity with metrology and failure analysis techniques (SEM/TEM/AFM/ellipsometry/XRR/XRD/SIMS/Raman)
• Knowledge of waveguides, modulators, resonators, MZIs, etc.
• Strong communication skills and teamwork; travel ≤ 20%

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development and optimization of process modules for integrated photonic devices.
• Collaborate with Design to improve yield and build complex stacks of components.
• Own and direct wafer lots processed at Xanadu’s foundry partners.
• Design and execute fabrication process improvement experiments and analyses.
• Define metrology and failure analysis plans to identify and mitigate failure modes.
• Collaborate with internal and external photonics engineers and foundry partners.
• Pursue state-of-the-art advances in photonics fabrication metrics.
• Stay current with new developments and implement learnings quickly.

Skills

Foundry experience

Electro-optic materials

Data analysis

Python

Team collaboration

Education

PhD in physics/materials science/EE

Tools

SEM

TEM

AFM

Ellipsometry

XRR/XRD

Job description

Xanadu seeks a senior Fabrication Process Engineer to advance photonic quantum hardware. You will own fabrication modules, work with design teams to improve yield, and coordinate wafer lots with Xanadu’s foundry partners.

You will lead metrology plans and drive process improvements for electro-optic materials like thin film lithium niobate. You should have a PhD and 10+ years in a foundry environment, with proven ability to deliver low-loss integrated photonics and collaborate across teams and