# Senior/Staff Physical Verification and PDK Engineer

HyperLight is at the forefront of the commercialization of thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) integrated photonics - a material and process technology that is enabling high-performance, scalable optical components across AI/datacom infrastructure, hyperscale computing, quantum computing, sensing, and beyond. Founded in 2018 and backed by leading venture capital, we’ve built a team and a platform focused on real-world mass deployment of TFLN photonics technology. At the core of our work is the TFLN Chiplet™ platform: a modular architecture designed for scalability, manufacturability, and integration into complex systems. We partner with our customers and suppliers from concept and prototyping through mass production. We believe in integrity, innovation, collaboration, and pragmatic solutions, and we take pride in tackling hard problems with curiosity, humility, and a deep sense of care for one another. Our growing team is looking for a Senior/Staff Physical Verification and PDK Engineer to own physical verification and design enablement for our most advanced heterogeneous integration program. You will be responsible for managing design tradeoffs and enablement across multiple material

- **Id**: 1103922
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hyperlight-seniorstaff-physical-verification-and-pdk-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T11:12:29Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4669
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 3370
- **Name**: HyperLight
- **Domain**: hyperlightcorp.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hyperlight>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 168
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 160000
- **Max usd**: 294000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 563

## Technologies

- **Cadence Pegasus** — Optional: no
- **Cadence Virtuoso** — Optional: no
- **Siemens Calibre** — Optional: no
- **Synopsys IC Validator** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T03:59:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 7; Filings 12m: 7

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 50
- **Expected fill days**: 168
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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