Senior Silicon Photonics IC Engineer — From Design to HVM

Intel Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 312,000; Full time

Job summary

Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, seeks an experienced Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit Engineer to define, design, and optimize silicon photonic ICs for AI datacenter scale-up and pluggable solutions.

You will drive chip design and verification from concept through tape-out, collaborate with foundries and validation teams, and contribute to high-volume manufacturing readiness while advancing photonic integration capabilities at Intel IPS.

Qualifications

• Master's degree with 8+ years of industry experience or PhD with 6+ years.
• Experience in photonic-integrated-circuits from concept to high volume manufacturing (HVM).
• Designing, simulating, and testing complex PICs with performance budgets.
• Familiarity with optical design tools (Lumerical, RSoft, Tidy3D, Harold, Photon Design, Matlab, Python).
• Experience contributing to or leading PIC tape-outs and LVS/SDL/DRC familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and optimize active and passive silicon photonic ICs.
• Develop plans for chip design, layout, tape-out, test, validation, and performance debugging.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with foundries, validation teams, manufacturers, and reliability groups.
• Conduct data analysis, reliability, qualification, and delivery of known-good-die solutions.
• Design and simulate photonic IC systems using tools like Lumerical Interconnect, ADS.
• Drive high-volume manufacturing flows and ensure integration of photonic technologies.
• Develop technical documentation and test content for the silicon photonics lifecycle.

Skills

PIC development

Modeling & simulation

Layout tools

Tape-out experience

Python

Education

Master's degree in relevant fields

Tools

Cadence

KLayout

Synopsys Optocompiler

GDSFactory

Job description

Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, seeks an experienced Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuit Engineer to define, design, and optimize silicon photonic ICs for AI datacenter scale-up and pluggable solutions.

You will drive chip design and verification from concept through tape-out, collaborate with foundries and validation teams, and contribute to high-volume manufacturing readiness while advancing photonic integration capabilities at Intel IPS.