Employer description & source details
Lead the design of high-performance, robust device components, including fiber and free-space optical interfaces such as grating couplers and edge couplers, along with splitters, optical taps, crossings, and thermo-optic phase shifters Own component design flows end to end: defining requirements with product teams and customers, selecting architectures, simulation, layout, tapeout, measurement, and handoff to production Apply optimization-driven and statistical design methods so that components are robust to fabrication variation and hold up at production volumes Simulate component designs using tools like Tidy3D, Lumerical, COMSOL, and HFSS, as well as homegrown tools in Python that you will help write Develop and perform rigorous measurement techniques to characterize component performance, and analyze measurement and simulation data for performance and robustness Collaborate with process engineering to improve our fabrication processes for optimal device performance Serve as a technical expert within HyperLight, mentoring other engineers and helping guide our engineering decisions and technical roadmap Either a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optics, or a related field with 3+ years of relevant industry experience, or 9+ years of relevant industry experience with a B.S. or M.S. Prior ownership of photonic component design flows in foundry processes, with multiple designs taken through tapeout and characterization Strong background in advanced design techniques such as optimization-driven design and statistical modeling, including design of experiments Strong expertise in simulation of PIC components using tools like Tidy3D, Lumerical, COMSOL, Synopsys OptoDesigner, etc Hands-on experience characterizing photonic integrated circuits using instruments like sw
Extracted skills: python