Silicon Photonics - Reference Design Engineer
Core
Design silicon photonics circuits (PICs) for pluggables, NPO, and CPO applications to meet target specifications and accelerate customer time-to-design.
Role type
Senior IC silicon photonics reference design engineer
Builds
Reusable reference designs, design methodologies, validation vehicles, and application demonstrations for optical interconnect solutions
Domain
Semiconductor manufacturing / Silicon Photonics / Datacenter & AI infrastructure
Required skills
Silicon photonics device physics, circuit design fundamentals, circuit design flows, EDA design tools (Cadence, Synopsys Lumerical), Layout editors (Klayout), Physical verification (LVS, DRC, PEX, EMIR), Scripting (Perl, Python)
Preferred skills
Knowledge of SiPh devices/processes/characterization, Patents/publications, AI tools for data analytics
Technologies
Cadence, Synopsys Lumerical, Tiny3D, Klayout, Perl, Python
Responsibilities
Design simulation and layout of circuits, Measure designs on hardware and analyze results, Analyze impact of device characteristics on circuit performance, Identify gaps in customer design flows and drive ecosystem improvements, Collaborate with PDK, modeling, test, packaging, and applications teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
