Photonics Layout and Tooling Engineer

Job description

Are you a passionate engineer eager to contribute to groundbreaking research and development? Join our team and play a key role in supporting our teams in developing cutting-edge silicon photonics integrated circuits. You'll be involved in the development process, from design and fabrication to testing and analysis, for complex photonic devices and systems-on-chip. Collaborate with experienced designers on innovative projects and large-scale silicon photonics circuits.

Apply now and be part of a team pushing the boundaries of photonic technology!

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain applications and scripts to automate tools and workflows within the photonic chip fabrication process. Oversee and manage the assembly and build processes for reticles used in photonic chip manufacturing, ensuring quality and efficiency. Understanding of semiconductor or photonic chip manufacturing processes, particularly related to reticle assembly and fabrication Implementing design rule checking and design for testing checks. Experience with manufacturing automation concepts and protocols (e.g., GDS, DRC, DFT) is highly desirable.

Maintain and version photonic component process design kits (PDKs).

Qualifications

You have: 2-4 years of related experience. Strong background in Python, C++, software scripting or software development. Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git). Knowledge of optical design software and CAD tools (e.g. Lumerical suite and Klayout).

It would be nice if you also had

Familiarity with software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, including testing, debugging, and deployment. Statistics background for implementing useful correlations, plots, charts. Comfortable in a remote/server/Linux environment. Background in parallel programming (multithreading and multiprocessing) is a plus. Experience with SQL database systems. Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Experience with directing and reviewing agentic AI systems.