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You will take responsibility for the design of complex photonic devices and interconnects, as well as systems-on-chip, from design through fabrication, testing and analysis. As a member of our silicon photonics design team, you’ll be working alongside other experienced and multidisciplinary teams and agile silicon photonics designers with strong records of delivering innovative photonic device designs and large-scale silicon photonics circuits.\n The Silicon Photonic Design Engineer will be responsible for the validation of the photonic IC in optical engines and will interface with mixed signal IC, substrate, packaging, and simulation teams to ensure system requirements are met for co-designed and co-optimized photonics chips. This also involves:\nOwning Tx and/or Rx PIC designs and communicating expected performance and PIC requirements to cross-functional teams. Evaluate optical link budgets, RFEO performance and power consumption, and verify performance compared to requirements.\n\nDefining test requirements and collaborate with test team to prepare test plans that provide coverage and address requirements.\n\nOwning and generating PIC performance documents to track performance across R&D and production design variants.\n\nEvaluate new design approaches and innovate on both device-level design and system-level optimization.\n\n MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or Applied Physics.\nHands-on experience in silicon photonic device design, characterization, and modeling.\nProficient with optical and RF simulation tools (e.g., Lumerical, HFSS, ADS) and photonic circuit design.\nProficient in Python or C/C++ with solid understanding of optics and electromagnetics.\n2+ years of experience in silicon photonics design, testing, and characterization.\nIt would be nice if you had:\nExpertise in design of IQ modulators based on TFLN technology, InP integration on SOI from the industry. \nStrong lab skills in optical testing, fiber-waveguide coupling, and design verification.\nProgramming skills with a solid understanding of fiber and integrated optics.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2201,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Optical Communications","Mobile Networks","Network Equipment"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T15:14:27Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":2,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.067,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":90,"expected_fill_days":9,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:tail","crowd:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-03T05:54:40Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nokia-silicon-photonics-design-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nokia-silicon-photonics-design-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-03T08:59:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12870,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-04T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":17345},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=17345"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnokia-silicon-photonics-design-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnokia-silicon-photonics-design-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnokia-silicon-photonics-design-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nokia-silicon-photonics-design-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnokia-silicon-photonics-design-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3010416}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"nokia.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3010416},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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