HPE Labs - Large-Scale Integrated Photonics Lab Research Associate (Intern)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Santa Barbara, CA

13d • $43 - $93 • Onsite

About The Position

HPE Labs - Large-Scale Integrated Photonics Lab Research Associate (Intern) This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: The Large-Scale Integrated Photonics Lab (LSIP) at HPE Labs is currently seeking highly qualified, self-motivated interns and post-docs to accelerate research towards new applications, core methodologies and technologies. The main research topic is Silicon photonics, with the long-term goal of achieving a low-power consumption, high-speed photonic interconnect system for HPE data center business. HPE Labs is an international research organization with its headquarters and largest facility located in Milpitas, California. As the central research organization for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), HPE Labs' purpose is to deliver breakthrough technologies and technology advancements that provide a competitive advantage for the company, by investing in fundamental science and technology in areas of interest to HPE and getting the resulting technologies ready for adoption into new and existing markets. LSIP is a world-renowned research team producing outstanding research in nanophotonics and quantum optics, with recent publications in Nature, Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Optics Letters, and Optics Express. Our program is well-funded internally and has an impressive record of attracting significant government funding. Our team members have enjoyed exceptional success in launching scientific and engineering careers in both industrial and academic settings. In addition, our regular research positions offer competitive salaries and benefits for qualified candidates. We expect all our researchers (including interns and post-docs) to provide thought leadership and technical influence both internally and externally to HPE, as well as take innovative ideas and make them real – contributing along the full range from initial novel ideas to design, development, implementation, evaluation, and technology transfer. The ideal candidate can thrive in an applied research environment, balancing significant technical and scientific contributions with the ability to bring such contributions to practice through innovative solutions that address the needs of our customers and partners. We expect the successful candidate to collaborate with HPE Labs research teams as well as with external partners, and to work in alignment with HPE's broader innovation community. We are looking for candidates who are working towards a PhD degree in Physics, Applied Physics, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering, and have demonstrated the potential for high-caliber research, with a good understanding of the current state of the art, major trends and opportunities, and a demonstrated track record in making things real in innovative ways. The ideal candidate combines this interest with a broad, entrepreneurial interest in creating the next generation of HPE’s products and technologies. Dependent on the project, the ideal candidate will have theoretical and/or experimental knowledge of Si photonics, analog electronic in-memory computing, quantum computing, statistical physics, or machine learning. Applicants should be comfortable working in a strongly collaborative and multidisciplinary industrial basic research environment.

Requirements

• Working towards a PhD degree in Physics, Applied Physics, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering
• Demonstrated the potential for high-caliber research, with a good understanding of the current state of the art, major trends and opportunities, and a demonstrated track record in making things real in innovative ways
• Ability to develop rapid understanding of select problems and opportunities
• Deep understanding of the relevant environment, ecosystem, trends, and literature
• Excellent research and development skills
• Ability to innovate, make research contributions, and bring ideas to reality in compelling ways
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English
• Strong track record to work independently and in teams
• Strong systems programming and software engineering skills
• Demonstrated ability to generate, frame, and carry out leadership research as shown, for example, by papers published in top-tier conferences or journals

Nice To Haves

• Theoretical and/or experimental knowledge of Si photonics, analog electronic in-memory computing, quantum computing, statistical physics, or machine learning
• Comfortable working in a strongly collaborative and multidisciplinary industrial basic research environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership and technical influence both internally and externally to HPE
• Take innovative ideas and make them real – contributing along the full range from initial novel ideas to design, development, implementation, evaluation, and technology transfer
• Balance significant technical and scientific contributions with the ability to bring such contributions to practice through innovative solutions that address the needs of our customers and partners
• Collaborate with HPE Labs research teams as well as with external partners
• Work in alignment with HPE's broader innovation community

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees