Photonic System Design Engineer
Core
Architect, design, and simulate system-level and component-level photonics solutions for high-speed optical communication products.
Role type
Senior IC photonic system design engineer
Builds
High-speed silicon photonic commercial optical communication products (CPO/OCI engines)
Domain
Silicon photonics / optical communication
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
System link modeling, high-speed optical transceiver design, optical component optimization, direct detect and coherent optical system modeling, simulation tooling (Simulink, Matlab, ADS, Lumerical, HFSS, VPI)
Preferred skills
Transmitter/receiver/Serdes interaction modeling, Si and III-V photonic device co-simulation, DSP modeling and FEC, optical packaging (2D/2.5D/3D), optoelectronic component design
Technologies
Simulink, Matlab, ADS, Lumerical, HFSS, VPI, CMOS ICs, DSP, FEC
Responsibilities
Architect and design new system-level and component-level photonics solutions; Develop end-to-end system level link simulations; Identify system-level tradeoffs and optimize component performance; Define system specifications driving component development; Validate photonic link understanding with experiments and drive engineering requirements
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
