Principal Engineer Silicon Photonics
Core
Lead product definition and execution for next-generation optical interconnects and packaged silicon photonics solutions, serving hyperscale data center customers and AI supercomputing infrastructure.
Role type
Principal Engineer, Silicon Photonics (Product & Systems)
Builds
Packaged silicon photonics engines, optical I/O solutions, and chip-to-chip optical interconnects for AI supercomputing.
Domain
Semiconductors / Optical Engineering / AI Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Silicon photonics design, packaged optics integration, optical link budget analysis, product requirement definition, cross-functional leadership, test strategy definition, EVT/DVT/SVT planning, lab execution.
Preferred skills
Test automation scripting (Python), hyperscale data center customer experience, fiber attach technologies, optical assembly processes.
Technologies
Python, simulation and modeling tools, optical test equipment.
Responsibilities
Own product requirements balancing performance, cost, and time-to-market; act as primary technical interface with customers and foundry partners; align internal teams and external stakeholders on milestones; perform link analysis to assess noise and distortion; translate system goals into actionable requirements for hardware, firmware, and manufacturing; guide development of co-packaged optics and optical I/O; define and execute complete testing strategies from lab validation to system integration.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic product leadership
