Senior Silicon Photonics Design Engineer – Hybrid

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and qualify integrated optical devices used in Cisco silicon photonics transceivers.
• Work within a team of silicon photonics designers on integrated optical devices.
• Develop modulators and photodetectors through device design, layout of test and characterization structures, testing (including high speed) and reliability qualification.
• Interact with the foundry and its engineers to optimize the manufacturing process and select process parameters.
• Interface with product team IC designers to deliver device models and optimize performance parameters of the optoelectronic devices to match drivers and TIAs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Optics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in an engineering role.
• Experience designing passive and active silicon photonics components (e.g., grating couplers, photodetectors, modulators, filters) or subsystems that use them.
• Experience using software modeling tools such as Ansys/Lumerical, Silvaco, or Photon Design.
• Experience using CAD layout tools such as Cadence Virtuoso, kLayout, etc.