# CAD/PDK Engineer

The Role This is a software and EDA role at the center of a Silicon Photonics company. If you've worked with CAD or EDA tooling, done mask layout, or verification infrastructure in any semiconductor domain - or you're a strong Python engineer who wants to work close to silicon - we'd like to talk. Familiarity, or a strong interest, with optics or photonics preferred. Working at the hub of the wheel that is OpenLight’s technology, you will build and maintain the software that turns photonic chip designs into manufacturable mask data. As a key member of OpenLight's Design Enablement team, you'll own the automation behind our process design kit (PDK), our mask build flows, and our physical verification infrastructure - the tooling that we rely on every day. What You Will Do Develop and maintain automated mask build workflows that assemble PIC designs into GDS artwork, reproducibly and on schedule Build and release the OpenLight PDK: device libraries, parameterized cells, compact models, and symbol/schematic views across our EDA platformsOwn physical verification infrastructure Stand up CI/CD pipelines, regression suites, and automated QA to maintain a robust PDK and mask release pro

- **Id**: 1296031
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openlight-photonics-cadpdk-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Goleta, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **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**: 3535
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Professional development, Stock options
- **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

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **KLayout** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## 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**: 21
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.457
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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