# Sr. Principal Photonics engineer

Primary Duties & Responsibilities The themes below are examples of early focus areas. They may evolve with CTO Office priorities and future Coherent needs. Advanced light sources for silicon photonics: evaluate source architectures such as quantum-dot DFB lasers, PIC-enhanced approaches, and comb-based sources against power, wavelength control, integration, reliability, packaging, manufacturability, and platform fit. Heterogeneous integration for active silicon photonics: explore integration approaches for lasers, amplifiers, pumps, modulators, and related active building blocks, with attention to process compatibility, yield, thermal behavior, reliability, and scalability. Energy-efficient optical I/O: develop architecture options for high-density, short-reach optical links relevant to memory-adjacent, scale-up, and disaggregated-compute use cases; compare parallel-emitter arrays, silicon photonics, and emerging emitter / receiver concepts using link-level and packaging-level metrics. Detector and receiver-side integration: assess photodiode-array and receiver-side technologies, including SiGe PD array options, link budgets, bandwidth, pitch, integration constraints, and packaging

- **Id**: 331115
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/coherent-sr-principal-photonics-engineer>
- **Role**: Semiconductors
- **Role family**: Semiconductors
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-27T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T10:41:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 105
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7021
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Lasers & Laser Systems, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 58506
- **Name**: Coherent
- **Domain**: coherent.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/coherent-com>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 58
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.828
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 4
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 160000
- **Max usd**: 291000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 33

## Technologies

- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 105

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T17:26:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 28 · green card filings: 4; Filings 12m: 28

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.197
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 105
- **Expected fill days**: 4
- **Reasons**: conf:9, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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