Staff Silicon Photonics Designer

Company Description

OpenLight is a photonics design company that offers the world’s first open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers. Our technology is used in Datacom, telecom, LiDAR, healthcare, HPC, AI, and optical computing applications. Our goal is to improve the performance, power efficiency, and reliability of your design using our open and flexible platform. We have over 300 patents and our technology has been adopted by companies across multiple industries enabling new possibilities for photonics engineering.

Why Join Us

Responsibilities

As a member of OpenLight’s Silicon Photonics (SiPh) team the candidate will be responsible for the development, design, layout and integration of a wide variety of Silicon, SiN and Heterogenous Si-IIIV based components for the OpenLight silicon photonics PDK.

The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with photonic IC-architects, CAD-layout engineers, process engineers and test engineers, in order to define, design, integrate and validate optical components in OpenLight’s Si-IIIV technology platform.

Use custom built and commercial simulation tools to design and model silicon and SiN photonic optical components such as: Mach-Zehnder Interferometers and modulators, ring resonators and modulators, multimode interference couplers, directional couplers, waveguides, Bragg gratings, etc.

Use custom built and commercial simulation tools to design and model Si and III-V based components such as: photodetectors, amplitude- and phase-modulators, Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Lasers, etc.

Perform photonic integrated circuit CAD layout of integrated optical components and circuits

Perform engineering level test-data analysis to optimize and validate optical component performance

Perform statistical analysis of large production datasets to validate performance over process and drive yield improvements

Work closely with process engineers to define and optimize the device structures and process, and drive yield improvements for devices and PICs

Develop compact models for optical components in OpenLight’s silicon photonics PDK

Work cross-functionally, driving device-centric failure analysis

Skills and Preferred Experience

Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics or related discipline

Hands-on experience with designing passive Si/SiN and/or active III-V photonic integrated circuit devices

Well versed in photonics design & simulation tools (mode solvers, FDTD, beam propagation, scattering matrix modelling)

Strong understanding of semiconductor processing and how process variations interact with photonic component performance

Hands-on experience with testing of integrated optical devices at wafer and/or die level is a plus

Proficiency in programming with scripting languages (preferably Python)

Experience with statistical analysis of large datasets using statistical software or toolboxes (E.g. JMP) is a plus

Familiarity with commercial layout tools is a plus

Strong problem solving, communication, organizational, interpersonal, and presentation skills