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Salary: USD 130,000 - 230,000 / annual
Openlight Photonics is seeking a Photonic Layout Engineer to create and maintain layouts of photonic devices and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) on their silicon photonics platform. You will work closely with photonic component designers, PIC architects, process engineers, PDK developers, and test engineers to ensure high-quality layouts that meet design and manufacturability requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Participate in development and implementation of next-generation photonic design automation workflows
- Perform physical verification of mask data to ensure design and manufacturability requirements are met
- Use custom-built and commercially available tools to design layouts of photonic components and circuits
- Maintain and execute automated mask build workflows to generate artwork in GDS file format
- Work closely with process engineers to ensure layout compatibility with rapidly developing design rules and guidelines
- Monitor for quality escapes, perform root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvements
Openlight is an innovative startup commercializing a heterogeneously integrated silicon photonics platform with over 300 patents. The platform supports customers designing Photonic ASICs for applications in communications, LIDAR, quantum computing, and sensing. The company operates on a hybrid schedule with a standard of three days per week in office, with flexibility to select which days based on work priorities.
Requirements:
- B.S. or M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Computer Science, or related engineering discipline
- Strong programming and scripting skills, preferably Python
- Knowledge of semiconductor design and/or fabrication
- Knowledge of optics and/or photonics theory and design
- Experience with version control and CI/CD pipeline software
- Agile experience
- Proficiency in a commercial photonic layout tool (e.g., Synopsys OptoCompiler & ICV, GDSFactory, Luceda IPKISS, or KLayout)
- Strong problem-solving, communication, organizational, interpersonal, and presentation skills
