Intel
Senior Photonics Design Engineer
$164K–$232K
US, California, Santa Clara · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years with a bachelor's/BS; 4+ years with a master's; or 2+ years with a Ph.D., in photonic device design and simulation.
- Education
- Bachelor's or BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optical Science, or a related field; or Master's degree; or Ph.D.
About the job
Designs, simulates, tests, and optimizes silicon photonic components and integrated circuits for optical communications and related applications.
What you'll do
- Design, simulate, and optimize photonic components for PICs; conduct tolerance analysis.
- Lead test chip design, layout, tapeout, testing, and validation; analyze characterization data and improve performance.
- Develop component modeling and test methods, research emerging technologies, and collaborate across engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optical Science, or a related field, and 6+ years of relevant experience; or Master's degree with 4+ years; or Ph.D. with 2+ years in photonic device design and simulation.
- Proficiency in optical and RF design and simulation tools such as Lumerical (FDTD, MODE, DEVICE, Interconnect), RSoft, or Tidy3D.
- Hands-on PIC design experience from concept through high-volume manufacturing; familiarity with photonic test methodologies and equipment.
- Experience managing statistical analysis of photonic test data using JMP or Python or Matlab.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in layout tools such as Cadence or KLayout; experience with advanced passive or active silicon photonic components.
- Knowledge of system-level link modeling, Monte Carlo analysis, optical coupling, inverse design, circuit-level simulations, or electronic IC integration with photonic systems.
Pay
$164,470.00-232,190.00 USD (target compensation; posting does not specify base salary or total pay)
Tools
Lumerical (FDTD, MODE, DEVICE, Interconnect), RSoft, Tidy3D, JMP, Python, Matlab, Cadence, KLayout
AI focus
Photonic technologies for data center and AI applications; no specific AI development work is stated.
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