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Photonic Design Engineer

Palo Alto, California, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-22 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design, validate, and analyze silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and photodetectors for million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum computers.

Role type

Photonic Design Engineer (IC)

Builds

Million-qubit quantum computing systems using silicon photonics

Domain

Quantum computing / Silicon photonics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Integrated photonics device physics, PIC design and modeling, circuit simulation and layout, wafer-level data analysis, photodetector development, validation and qualification

Preferred skills

Semiconductor device development experience

Technologies

Lumerical, Synopsys, Cadence Virtuoso, Python, MATLAB

Responsibilities

Perform PIC wafer-level data analysis and yield analysis; Design and model integrated photonic components; Conduct circuit level simulation and layout; Execute packaged PIC validation with cross-functional teams; Lead photodetector development including design, test support, and validation/qualification

Seniority

Mid-level IC

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