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Overview

LIGENTEC is a Swiss company founded in 2016 as an EPFL spinoff. It manufactures silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits. Its foundry service supports quantum, telecom and sensing customers.

News

Blog 5 months ago
From Catheters to Light Beams: Reinventing Cardiac Diagnostics with Integrated Photonics
Functional Model (FuMo) of the Femto-One FBG temperature sensor system Accurate temperature measurement is essential for certain methods in clinical cardiovascular diagnostics, yet achieving extreme precision in a non-invasive way has long come with signi
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Blog 6 months ago
How Photonic Integrated Circuits Are Transforming Biosensing: Delta Life Science Story
The inQuiQ by Delta Life Science Studying biomolecular interactions is at the heart of drug discovery and life-science research, but doing it well has long come with significant challenges. Traditional methods often rely on addition of fluorescent or othe
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Blog 10 months ago
Professor Kippenberg's Marcel Benoist Prize: Pioneering Quantum Optomechanics and Optical Frequency Combs
We extend our warmest congratulations to Professor Tobias J. Kippenberg, Full Professor of Physics at EPFL and co-founder of LIGENTEC, on receiving the prestigious Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize 2025. Often called the 'Swiss Nobel Prize,' this honor r
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Blog 11 months ago
Next-Gen Tumor Detection: Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits Medical Diagnostics at Scale
The next generation of medical diagnostics-from catching tumors at their earliest stages to continuous health monitoring-relies on a technology most patients will never see: photonics. By using light instead of electronics to probe biological tissue, thes
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Blog 11 months ago
Building the Quantum Future: LIGENTEC SiN QPIC1550 Photonics
The race to make quantum technologies practical is accelerating. At its core lies a transformative innovation: Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits (QPICs) operating at 1550 nm-the telecom wavelength that integrates seamlessly with existing fiber infrastr
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Technologies

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Python
SQL
Dagster
Ray
AI/ML
Python
SQL
Git
NumPy
SciPy
Dagster
Prefect
Ray
Spark
Dask
Other
ETL/ELT
Matplotlib
Plotly
Stack modernity Modern
70/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Python 4 jobs Required
Git 3 jobs Required
SciPy 2 jobs Required
NumPy 2 jobs Required
SQL 1 job Required
Spark 1 job Optional
Dagster 1 job Required
Prefect 1 job Required
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
12%
SQL
9%
Git
7%
ETL/ELT
3%
Spark
2%
NumPy
2%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
SciPy Sep 2026
Plotly Sep 2026
NumPy Sep 2026
Matplotlib Sep 2026
SQL Sep 2026
Spark Sep 2026
Ray Sep 2026
Python Sep 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.

Growth

Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
8
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~11 hours
09/07/2026
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
67%
Data Science
33%
Activity Timeline
Added SciPy to stack Sep 2026
Added Plotly to stack Sep 2026
Added NumPy to stack Sep 2026
Added Matplotlib to stack Sep 2026
Added SQL to stack Sep 2026
Added Spark to stack Sep 2026
Added Ray to stack Sep 2026
Added Python to stack Sep 2026
Added Prefect to stack Sep 2026
Added Git to stack Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack Sep 2026
Added Dask to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Lausanne Switzerland
HQ
10-50 est. staff

Jobs

Research Data Engineer

Verified live · 2 days ago 6 days ago
In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree
Python
SQL
Dask
AI/ML
Spark
Dagster
Prefect
Ray
DevOps
Git
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Layout and Automation Design Engineer

Verified live · 2 days ago 5 months ago
In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Master's Degree
Python
Git
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