Photonics Layout and Tooling Engineer

Are you a passionate engineer eager to contribute to groundbreaking research and development? Join our team and play a key role in supporting our teams in developing cutting-edge silicon photonics integrated circuits. You'll be involved in the development process, from design and fabrication to testing and analysis, for complex photonic devices and systems-on-chip. Collaborate with experienced designers on innovative projects and large-scale silicon photonics circuits. Apply now and be part of a team pushing the boundaries of photonic technology!

• Design, develop, and maintain applications and scripts to automate tools and workflows within the photonic chip fabrication process.
• Oversee and manage the assembly and build processes for reticles used in photonic chip manufacturing, ensuring quality and efficiency.
• Understanding of semiconductor or photonic chip manufacturing processes, particularly related to reticle assembly and fabrication
• Implementing design rule checking and design for testing checks.
• Experience with manufacturing automation concepts and protocols (e.g., GDS, DRC, DFT) is highly desirable.
• Maintain and version photonic component process design kits (PDKs).

You have:

• 2-4 years of related experience.
• Strong background in Python, C++, software scripting or software development.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Knowledge of optical design software and CAD tools (e.g. Lumerical suite and Klayout).

It would be nice if you also had:

• Familiarity with software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, including testing, debugging, and deployment.
• Statistics background for implementing useful correlations, plots, charts.
• Comfortable in a remote/server/Linux environment. Background in parallel programming (multithreading and multiprocessing) is a plus.
• Experience with SQL database systems.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with directing and reviewing agentic AI systems.