# Application Engineer – PIC Architecture

The Role We are seeking a highly motivated Application Engineer - PIC Architecture to serve as the primary technical interface between customers and our internal engineering teams. In this role, you will work closely with customers to understand their application requirements, provide technical support, and communicate the capabilities of our Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) products and technologies. You will collaborate with architecture, design, layout, process, test, and operations teams to gather technical information, resolve customer inquiries, and ensure successful product adoption. Additionally, you will support the Architecture team by creating and maintaining technical documentation, including datasheets, test reports, technical specifications, and application notes. What You Will Do Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers, providing timely and effective technical support. Understand customer requirements and translate them into actionable technical discussions with internal engineering teams. Educate customers on product capabilities, performance characteristics, design considerations, and application guidelines. Coordinate across architecture,

- **Id**: 1296029
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openlight-photonics-application-engineer-pic-architecture>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T09:11:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T05:14:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 47
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3776
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 2264134
- **Name**: OpenLight Photonics
- **Domain**: openlightphotonics.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openlightphotonics>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Kula

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 72000
- **Max usd**: 131000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 4343

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T09:11:46Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.506
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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