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Photonics Circuit Designer

Palo Alto, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $140,000–$140,000🗓 2026-05-21 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing and optimizing high-performance integrated silicon photonic circuits for million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum computers.

Role type

Senior IC photonics circuit designer

Builds

Utility-scale silicon photonic quantum computing systems

Domain

Quantum computing / Silicon photonics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Photonic device modeling, Electromagnetic simulation, Integrated photonic circuit layout, Python for scientific applications, Data analysis, Schematic representation

Preferred skills

Wolfram Language, Component design validation

Technologies

Commercial photonic design software platforms, Python, Wolfram Language

Responsibilities

Data-driven modeling of linear photonic devices at different scales, Design and optimization of photonic circuits, Full simulation of complex photonic circuits including photon-pair generation modeling, Schematic representation of photonic circuits, Coordination of photonic circuits layout, Data analysis to evaluate device and circuit performance, Collaboration with component design and circuit characterization teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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