Staff Photonics Design and Layout Engineer

What you'll do

• Design and lay out block- and system-level photonic circuits; collaborate with product, architecture, analog, digital, packaging, and customer-facing teams.
• Run layout-driven photonic simulation and verification, troubleshoot performance issues, and improve layout, verification, and integration flows.
• Contribute to PDK development, new chip designs and architectures, and publish results or participate in photonics conferences.

What they ask for

• MS + 10 years or PhD + 3 years of industry experience in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or a related discipline.
• Excellent understanding of silicon photonics fundamentals and familiarity with a wide variety of silicon photonics devices, performance metrics, and design trade-offs.
• Proficiency with Python; experience with script-based photonic circuit design and layout using GDSFactory or similar.
• Demonstrated track record of multiple photonic tapeouts; strong communication and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with product-grade photonic tapeouts and foundry or custom PDKs.
• Experience with photonic and/or analog circuit design in Cadence Virtuoso; strong project execution skills.

Pay

$175,000 — $230,000 USD (base salary range)

Tools

Python, GDSFactory, Cadence Virtuoso

AI focus

Supports photonic infrastructure for AI data centers and advanced AI workloads; the role designs and verifies photonic circuits.