Intel
Senior Laser and SOA Designer
$142K–$269K
US, California, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years with a master's degree, or 1+ years with a Ph.D.
- Education
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optical Science, or related fields; or Ph.D.
About the job
Designs, simulates, and develops lasers and semiconductor optical amplifiers for high-performance photonics systems used in data centers and AI applications.
What you'll do
- Design, simulate, and optimize photonics components, including DFB lasers and semiconductor optical amplifiers.
- Execute test chips from design and layout through tape-out, testing, and validation; analyze characterization data and recommend improvements.
- Develop component and system modeling methods, and collaborate with engineering teams on integration and new photonics technologies.
What they ask for
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optical Science, or a related field, with 3+ years of relevant experience; or Ph.D. with 1+ years of relevant experience.
- Proven expertise designing, simulating, and analyzing photonics components, including DFB lasers and semiconductor optical amplifiers.
Nice to have
- Analyze photonic component or PIC test data using JMP or data libraries in MATLAB/Python; MATLAB programming experience.
- Familiarity with Cadence or KLayout, system-level optical-link modeling, or peer-reviewed photonics research.
Pay
$141,910.00-269,100.00 USD (annual salary range; target compensation)
Tools
DFB lasers, JMP, MATLAB, Python, Cadence, KLayout
AI focus
Develops photonics components for data center and AI applications; no specific AI development work is stated.
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