Senior PIC Designer — Hybrid Photonics & Impact

OpenLight; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive stock options

Health insurance

401k matching

Unlimited vacation

Spot bonuses

Job summary

OpenLight is seeking a PIC Designer to join the PIC Architecture team, driving development of heterogeneous photonics platforms. You will own engineering activities across prototype stages, support design reviews, analyze device data, and optimize performance across variations.

You will collaborate with test, operations, and reliability teams, contribute to qualification and release, and work in a hybrid schedule with strong documentation and data analysis skills.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in Optics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or related field.
• 1-2 years minimum of relevant photonics or semiconductor devices experience.
• Detail oriented with strong documentation discipline.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced development environment.
• Ability to interpret large datasets and extract actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering activities across prototype and development stages for PIC-based optical products.
• Support design and layout reviews for PICs, ensuring adherence to design rules and manufacturability.
• Perform data analysis on device and system-level measurements to evaluate performance trends and variability.
• Drive debug, root cause analysis, and performance optimization across process and design variations.
• Interface with test engineering teams to define test plans, requirements, and measurement methodologies for PICs.
• Interface with the system engineering team to provide thermal model, support EVT/DVT test and PIC system test.
• Generate, maintain, and update design docs, test reports and characterization summaries.
• Ensure PIC performance meets specifications and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with operations and reliability teams to support qualification, yield improvement, and product release for PICs.

Skills

Data analysis

Python (NumPy/Pandas)

JMP

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional communication

Documentation

Statistical evaluation

Dataset interpretation

Education

MS/PhD in Optics/Physics/EE/Materials Science

Tools

JMP

Python

Job description

OpenLight is seeking a PIC Designer to join the PIC Architecture team, driving development of heterogeneous photonics platforms. You will own engineering activities across prototype stages, support design reviews, analyze device data, and optimize performance across variations.

You will collaborate with test, operations, and reliability teams, contribute to qualification and release, and work in a hybrid schedule with strong documentation and data analysis skills.