Silicon Photonics Design Engineer — High-Speed PICs & Validation

118-WW TMG MFG OPS; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kilby Labs is seeking a highly motivated Silicon Photonics Design Engineer to design silicon photonics solutions for advanced data communications applications and establish methodologies, tools, and automation flows for silicon photonics design. In this role, you will be responsible for the design and layout of transmit and receive Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs).

The role includes working closely with system architecture, packaging, validation, and test engineering team members to ensure

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Photonics, Optical Communications or related field.
• Experience with high-speed modulator and detector design and/or passive photonic component design and photonic integrated circuit design.
• Strong understanding of PIC circuit design and layout, experience contributing to or leading PIC tapeouts.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop passive and active PIC components such as advanced passive waveguide circuit elements, and high-speed active components such as modulators and Ge-based waveguide detectors for high performance (<200Gbps/ln>) datacom applications, while driving continuous improvements in power efficiency and area.
• Work closely with systems and design team members to understand system specifications and translate them into circuit level requirements.
• Collaborate with layout team to translate the designs into DRC clean layouts that meet specifications while guaranteeing high yields.
• Engage with systems and packaging teams to architect, design and simulate advanced packaging solutions for high bandwidth and high-density interfaces for datacom applications.
• Drive test methodology and collaborate with characterization and product engineering teams to enable product validation and production ramp.
• Collaborate with technology development team to define process requirements and specifications for new silicon photonics platforms.
• Participate in R&D to develop next generation photonics technologies, drive IP development.
• Present work and findings to internal and external stakeholders through technical documents and design reviews.

Skills

PIC circuit design

Photonic IC layout

High-speed modulator design

Photonic detector design

Electromagnetic simulation

HFSS

Lumerical

Tidy3D

PhotonDesign

Maestro

Cadence Virtuoso

LayoutXL

Synopsys tools

Education

Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Photonics, Optical Communications or related field

Tools

Cadence Virtuoso

Maestro

LayoutXL

Synopsys

Luceda

GDSFactory

Altium

Cadence Allegro

Job description

Kilby Labs is seeking a highly motivated Silicon Photonics Design Engineer to design silicon photonics solutions for advanced data communications applications and establish methodologies, tools, and automation flows for silicon photonics design. In this role, you will be responsible for the design and layout of transmit and receive Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs).

The role includes working closely with system architecture, packaging, validation, and test engineering team members to ensure