# Photonics Design Engineer - III/V Components

About us Salience Labs is developing optical circuit switching technology for AI infrastructure, aimed at reducing latency and cost in data centre networks. As we move towards deployment, you’ll have real ownership of your area and work alongside a highly technical team on a hard problem in AI infrastructure. The role You’ll join a multi-disciplinary research team in the UK to contribute to the development of III-V active components for integration with silicon photonics. You will help take devices from epitaxial stack and device design through fabrication with external partners, to characterisation, reliability and qualification. What you’ll be doing Contribute to the design and modelling of III-V active devices, including epitaxial layer structure, gain and power modelling, optical mode design, and electrical and thermal design Help define device specifications for your area, translating system requirements into device design and integration targets Contribute to mask design and tape-outs, including GDS layouts, test structures and design-of-experiment splits Support fabrication runs with external epitaxy and foundry partners: follow process flows, review process and in-line d

- **Id**: 4276942
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/salience-labs-photonics-design-engineer-iiiv-components>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Oxford, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:39:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:17:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 2029320
- **Name**: Salience Labs
- **Domain**: saliencelabs.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/saliencelabs>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **Cadence Virtuoso** — Optional: no
- **CVD** — Optional: no
- **KLayout** — Optional: no
- **Photolithography** — Optional: no
- **Tanner L-Edit** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T19:17:24Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T22:36:47Z

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