Senior Photonic-integrated-circuit Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · California, Santa Clara, United States

Senior Photonic-Integrated-Circuit Engineer at Intel, responsible for the end-to-end development of silicon photonic integrated circuits, from concept and design to high-volume manufacturing. This includes system-level planning, component design and optimization, simulation, layout, testing, validation, and performance debug, working cross-functionally with various teams and foundries. Requires expertise in PIC design, simulation tools (Lumerical, RSoft, Matlab, Python), and layout tools (Cadence, KLayout).

What you'd actually do

  1. Defines and drives overall integrated silicon photonic chip development plan at system and device level, possessing expertise in the design and simulation of silicon photonic integrated circuit components and systems.
  2. Designs and optimizes photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and plays a key role in the development of photonic technologies including complex active and passive large-scale PICs.
  3. Owns overall silicon PIC development execution and coordination from architecture definition and chip design, to layout, test, validation, data analysis, and covers performance debug, reliability qualification, and KGD delivery.
  4. Works cross functionally with foundries, design, validation, quality and reliability teams.

Skills

Required

  • development of photonic-integrated-circuits from concept to high volume manufacturing
  • designing, simulating, and testing complex PIC's
  • link budget analysis
  • electrical power budgets
  • back-reflection budgets
  • Monte Carlo models
  • optical design and simulation tools such as Lumerical (FDTD, MODE, DEVICE, Interconnect), RSoft, Tidy3D, Harold, Photon Design
  • numerical simulation tools such as Matlab or Python
  • PIC tape-outs
  • layout tools such as Candence, KLayout, Synopsys Optocompiler, or GDSFactory

Nice to have

  • standard photonic test methodologies and equipment such as optical spectrum analyzers, tunable lasers, optical backscatter reflectometers, optical vector analyzers, fiber or free-space coupling
  • EDA/PDA tools and methodologies
  • LVS, SDL, and DRC
  • PIC test data analysis and design optimization
  • statistical analysis using tools such as JMP or statistical libraries in matlab or python

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience in development of photonic-integrated-circuits from concept to high volume manufacturing.
  • Experience designing, simulating, and testing complex PIC's, including link budget analysis, electrical power budgets, back-reflection budgets, Monte Carlo models and other performance indicators.
  • Familiarity using optical design and simulation tools such as Lumerical (FDTD, MODE, DEVICE, Interconnect), RSoft, Tidy3D, Harold, Photon Design, or numerical simulation tools such as Matlab or Python.
  • Experience contributing to or leading PIC tape-outs. Familiarity with layout tools such as Candence, KLayout, Synopsys Optocompiler, or GDSFactory.