Design Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• B.S. or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience in silicon photonics or integrated photonic device design, through research or commercial work.
• Solid understanding of photonic device physics, including waveguides, couplers, gratings, and micro-ring resonators.
• Experience with simulation tools for passive optical devices, such as FDTD or mode solvers.
• Python skills and experience writing structured code in a team environment.
• Ability to connect simulation to measurement by designing, characterizing, and iterating on device performance.

Nice To Haves

• M.S. or Ph.D. with a focus on integrated photonics.
• Experience contributing to PIC tape-outs on a standard silicon photonics platform, such as AIM Photonics, GlobalFoundries, imec, or similar.
• Experience designing or characterizing electro-optic devices, such as micro-ring modulators or photodetectors.
• High-speed test experience, including BERT, VNA, or wafer-level characterization.
• Statistical analysis of device or process data and experience with DOE methods.
• Familiarity with optical transceiver principles and co-packaged optics architectures.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to achieve meaningful productivity gains in design or analysis workflows, such as device optimization or AI-assisted code development.

Responsibilities

• Design passive integrated photonic components, including couplers, gratings, and micro-ring resonators, in the context of system requirements.
• Plan test vehicles, use measurement data to refine simulation models, and iterate on device performance toward roadmap targets.
• Contribute to the design and analysis codebase, including simulation automation, layout scripts, and data analysis tools.
• Collaborate with packaging, laser, circuits, and firmware colleagues to understand system requirements and translate them into device specifications.
• Use foundry process data to assess design margins, contribute to design-for-manufacturability, and support yield improvement on new device designs.