Intel
Senior Photonic-Integrated-Circuit Integration Engineer
$191K–$312K
US, California, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of industry experience with a relevant Master's degree, or 6+ years with a PhD.
- Education
- Master's degree in relevant fields or a PhD.
About the job
Designs, simulates, validates, and helps manufacture silicon photonic integrated circuits for applications including AI datacenters and optical interconnect solutions.
What you'll do
- Architect, design, and optimize active and passive photonic integrated circuits, including planning design, layout, tape-out, testing, validation, and debugging.
- Analyze performance and reliability, qualify chips, and deliver known-good-die solutions while enabling high-volume manufacturing.
- Collaborate with foundries and cross-functional teams; develop technical documentation and test content.
What they ask for
- Master's degree in a relevant field and 8+ years of industry experience, or a PhD and 6+ years of industry experience.
- Experience developing photonic-integrated-circuits from concept to high volume manufacturing (HVM).
- Experience designing, simulating, and testing complex PICs, including performance-budget analysis and Monte Carlo models.
- Experience contributing to or leading PIC tape-outs; familiarity with optical simulation and layout tools.
Nice to have
- Exposure to photonic test methodologies and equipment, EDA/PDA tools, and methodologies.
- Familiarity with LVS, SDL, DRC, and PIC test-data analysis and optimization.
Pay
$190,610.00-311,890.00 USD (annual salary; base or total pay not specified)
Tools
Lumerical (FDTD, MODE, DEVICE, Interconnect), ADS, RSoft, Tidy3D, Harold, Photon Design, Matlab, Python
AI focus
Develops silicon photonic circuits for applications including AI datacenter scale-up; no AI development work is stated.
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