Intel
Silicon Photonics Component Design Engineer
$142K–$269K
US, New Mexico, Albuquerque · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Experience
- PhD route: 2+ years; Master's route: 4+ years.
- Education
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline; or Master's degree in a related field.
About the job
Designs, simulates, characterizes, and improves silicon photonic components and supports their integration into photonic circuits and manufacturing test chips.
What you'll do
- Design and optimize photonic components, including lasers, modulators, photodetectors, passive devices, and waveguides.
- Support PIC design, test-chip layout and tape-out, silicon validation, and analysis of characterization data.
- Contribute to device models, simulation workflows, automation tools, test methods, and technology demonstrations.
What they ask for
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline with 2+ years of relevant experience; or a Master's degree in a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience in at least one area: high-speed photonic devices; photonic design and simulation; device testing and characterization/data analysis; or photonic layout design.
Nice to have
- Experience with silicon photonic modulator or detector design.
- Familiarity with micro-ring modulators, advanced photonic materials, optical link modeling, high-speed electronic ICs, or semiconductor foundry development.
Pay
$141,910.00-269,100.00 USD — annual salary range (base salary or total pay not specified).
Tools
Sentaurus, Silvaco, Lumerical, HFSS, ADS, RSoft, MATLAB, Python
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