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Staff Photonics Design and Layout Engineer

Boston, MA💼 Full-time💰 $175,000–$175,000🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and layout block- and chip-scale photonic circuits from clean sheet concept to tapeout, verifying performance targets for AI data center infrastructure.

Role type

Staff IC photonics design and layout engineer

Builds

Integrated photonic solutions and chip-scale circuits for extreme-scale AI and HPC workloads

Domain

Semiconductor manufacturing / Silicon photonics / AI data center infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Silicon photonics fundamentals, Python, script-based photonic circuit design (GDSFactory), photonic tapeout experience, analog/digital/packaging integration, PDK development, photonic simulation and verification

Preferred skills

Product-grade photonic tapeouts, foundry/custom PDKs, Cadence Virtuoso, photonic/analog circuit design

Technologies

GDSFactory, Cadence Virtuoso, Python

Responsibilities

Floorplan and layout block- and system-level photonic circuits; perform layout-driven photonic simulation and verification; develop and improve photonic layout, verification, and integration flows; contribute to proprietary PDK development; engage in problem solving for new photonic chip designs and architectures

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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