Sr. Staff Engineer, Photonics Design

Ayar Labs • San Jose, CA

8d • $170,000 - $223,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a photonics design engineer, you will push the envelope of bandwidth density, energy efficiency, and manufacturability of our silicon photonics optical I/O platform, removing the bottlenecks limiting next-generation AI and advanced compute architectures. You will help define our product roadmap and drive development to meet aggressive customer requirements.

Requirements

• PhD degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 6+ years (research and commercial) experience developing electro-optic systems
• Great programming skills; proficiency with Python, experience writing well-structured code and developing a code base as part of a team
• Experience with Design Validation Testing and handoff to manufacturing
• Solid understanding of photonic devices: couplers, photodetectors, electro-optic modulators, micro-ring resonators, gratings
• Experienced with simulation and design tools for passive and active optical devices (e.g., FDTD, charge transport)
• Experience successfully taking an opto-electronic product to market: design, debug and validation

Nice To Haves

• Experience with high-speed design and analysis of RF tests
• Understanding of industry’s transition to co-packaged optics: drivers, pain points, and product differentiators
• Experience with statistical analysis of test data, DOE methods
• Familiar with electro-optic reliability modeling and testing
• Hands-on experience with fiber optic test and electro-optic instruments: e.g., bit-error-rate testing, wafer-screening tests

Responsibilities

• Design the high-performance integrated photonic components needed for an aggressive optical I/O product roadmap
• Drive efforts at foundry and OSAT partners to overcome process limitations
• Build data infrastructure: formulate and extend custom code base for layout, analysis, and automated checking
• Enable next-generation architectures: target device-roadmap goals needed for high-impact product features
• Drive PIC to meet system requirements in collaboration with experts in laser, packaging, firmware, and circuits to ensure product success

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees