Silicon Photonics Design Engineer

As a Silicon Photonics Design Engineer, you will help develop silicon photonics IC-based products from design to fabrication and testing. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver innovative photonic devices and large-scale circuits, shaping photonics-enabled connectivity. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration to meet system-level requirements and drive design validation. This is an opportunity to impact advanced photonic integration within a leading, inclusive tech company focused on secure, scalable connectivity.

• Flexible and hybrid working schemes
• Maternity and Paternity Leave (min. 90 days)
• Life insurance
• Own Tx and/or Rx PIC designs and communicate performance requirements to cross-functional teams
• Evaluate optical link budgets, RFEO performance, and power consumption to verify against requirements
• Define test requirements and collaborate with test teams to develop comprehensive test plans
• Generate PIC performance documents to track performance across R&D and production variants
• Evaluate new design approaches and drive device-level and system-level optimization
• Interface with mixed-signal IC, substrate, packaging, and simulation teams to ensure co-design/co-optimization of photonics chips
• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or Applied Physics
• Hands-on experience in silicon photonic device design, characterization, and modeling
• Proficient with optical and RF simulation tools (Lumerical, HFSS, ADS) and photonic circuit design
• Proficient in Python or C/C++ with solid understanding of optics and electromagnetics
• 2+ years of experience in silicon photonics design, testing, and characterization
• collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
• strong communication of requirements to engineers
• problem solving and critical thinking
• device-level modeling and characterization
• optical and RF simulation

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