Senior Photonics Design Engineer, Actives Design

Intel Corporation•Santa Clara, CA

4d•$190,610 - $269,100•Onsite

About The Position

Intel Integrated Photonics Solutions (IPS) is a leader in silicon photonics integration and commercialization, driving advancements in technology and high-volume manufacturing. Our team is dedicated to developing cutting-edge technology that supports future data center and AI datacenter bandwidth growth with smaller form factors, co-packaging solutions, and higher speeds. We are looking for talented individuals to join our transformative journey and shape the future of photonics technology. This role focuses on active components and high-speed design within the IPS team, requiring significant experience in photonic integrated circuit (PIC) development and a history of design innovation. The engineer will be crucial in advancing Intel's silicon photonics platform and developing next-generation optical communication solutions.

Requirements

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a similar discipline with 4+ years of experience in a related field and 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
Extensive (6+ years) experience in designing, simulating, and testing silicon photonic design experience in industry or research environment.
4+ years of experience in High-Speed Design: Designing, simulating, and testing high-speed optical modulators and/or detectors for 50+ Gbaud applications in silicon or III-V platforms.
Proficiency with optical/RF design and simulation tools such as Device simulation: Sentaurus, Silvaco, Lumerical DEVICE; Electromagnetic simulation: HFSS, ADS, Lumerical FDTD/MODE; Photonic circuit simulation: Lumerical Interconnect, RSoft, Tidy3D, Harold-Photon Design.
Hands-on experience with standard photonic test methodologies and equipment including optical spectrum analyzers, tunable lasers, optical backscatter reflectometers, optical vector analyzers, and fiber/free-space coupling systems.
Expertise in PIC test data analysis and design optimization using statistical analysis tools (JMP) or statistical libraries in MATLAB/Python.
Familiarity with industry-standard layout tools such as Cadence and KLayout.

Nice To Haves

Specialized Modulator Experience: Silicon photonic microring modulator design expertise especially with MRM modulators or advanced materials such as BTO, TFLN, III/V.
Electronic Integration: Understanding of high-speed electronic ICs including modulator drivers, linear and limiting TIAs, post-amplifiers, FFE/DFE filters, and DSPs.
Control Systems: Experience developing optical modulator bias control systems.
System-Level Modeling: Experience with comprehensive optical link modeling and system-level performance optimization.
Experience with 100G+ high-speed photonic components.
Familiarity with foundry processes (AIM Photonics, GlobalFoundries, TSMC, etc.).
Publications in peer-reviewed photonics journals.
Customer-facing or product development experience.
Experience with active component design for bias control such as heaters, carrier injection devices and passive silicon photonic devices.

Responsibilities

Design, simulate, and develop photonic components (modulators, high-speed detectors, phase control, carrier injection, diodes) and influence PIC architecture decisions.
Perform tolerance analysis and optimize components for performance, power, area, and reliability using advanced modeling techniques.
Drive end-to-end test chip execution including design, layout coordination, tape-out, and validation.
Analyze characterization data to identify performance gaps and implement data-driven design improvements.
Develop photonic modeling methodologies and propose new test approaches to accelerate development cycles.
Conduct research in novel photonic technologies, define next-generation architectures, and drive IP development programs.