Intel
Photonic System Design Engineer
$164K–$269K
US, California, Santa Clara · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of industry experience with a qualifying master’s degree, or 4+ years with a qualifying PhD.
- Education
- Master’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a similar discipline, focused on Silicon Photonics, optical component, module, and transmission system.
About the job
Designs and develops silicon photonics components and high-speed optical communication systems, coordinating test-chip execution and improving performance through modeling, characterization, and research.
What you'll do
- Architects, simulates, and optimizes photonics components and integrated-circuit architectures.
- Coordinates test-chip design, layout, tapeout, testing, and validation; analyzes characterization data and drives improvements.
- Develops modeling and test methodologies and researches next-generation photonics components and technologies.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a similar discipline focused on Silicon Photonics, optical components, modules, and transmission systems, plus 6+ years of industry experience; OR a PhD in a similar discipline and focus, plus 4+ years.
- Experience with system link modeling and design methodologies for 50GBaud to 200GBaud optical communication transceivers and CPO/OCI engine products.
- Experience architecting and designing high-speed silicon photonics commercial optical communication systems and components.
- Experience modeling direct-detect higher-order modulation, advanced modulation, noncoherent, and coherent optical systems.
Nice to have
- Experience modeling transmitter, receiver, analog, and Serdes interactions, Si and III-V photonic devices, and subsystems.
- Experience with high-speed electronics/optical co-simulation, DSP, coding/decoding, OSNR/BER/FEC, CMOS ICs, or optical packaging and test.
Pay
$164,470.00-269,100.00 USD (target compensation; base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
Simulink, Matlab, ADS, Lumerical, HFSS, VPI
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative