Voyant Photonics
Silicon Photonics Control & Calibration Engineer - Optical Circuit Switches (OCS)
$120K–$160K
New York Office (HQ) · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years; exceptional candidates at other experience levels are considered.
- Education
- MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optics, or a related field, or a BS with equivalent experience; PhD a plus.
About the job
Own the control, calibration, and validation of optical circuit switch photonic devices, from characterization and algorithm design through driver requirements and firmware verification.
What you'll do
- Characterize photonic devices and develop calibration routines and closed-loop control algorithms, prototyping in Python.
- Define and validate driver-electronics requirements, and provide firmware teams with algorithm specifications and reference implementations.
- Build and automate test setups, then validate firmware-implemented control against Python references.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in control, calibration, or characterization of optical, photonic, or other precision physical systems; exceptional candidates at other experience levels are also considered.
- Strong control and estimation fundamentals, photonic device physics knowledge, and mixed-signal electronics literacy.
- Proficiency in Python; hands-on lab equipment experience and demonstrated test-setup automation.
- MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optics, or a related field, or a BS with equivalent experience; must be able to work on-site.
Nice to have
- Experience controlling or calibrating silicon photonic circuits, tunable lasers, optical switches, or coherent/datacom transceivers.
- Experience with multi-channel calibration, dither or lock-in stabilization, embedded C/C++, FPGA, real-time systems, or hardware-in-the-loop frameworks.
Pay
USD $120K – $160K base salary
Tools
Python, embedded C/C++, FPGA, DAC/ADC
AI focus
The role supports optical circuit switches for AI data centers; it does not specify AI development work.
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