# Photonics Layout Lead

About us Salience Labs is building the optical infrastructure that will power the next generation of AI. Our photonic switching technology delivers the high-speed, ultra-low latency networking fabrics AI datacenters need and can’t get anywhere else. We’re a multi-disciplinary team of physicists, engineers, and machine learning specialists on a mission to remove the bottlenecks holding AI infrastructure back. Job Overview We are looking for a Photonics Layout Lead to join our Photonics team and lead our Layout team, taking technical and people leadership of the physical design, verification and development of advanced integrated photonic devices. You will work closely with engineers across photonic design, layout and testing, setting the direction for how device and circuit requirements are translated into robust, fabrication-ready layouts. The role combines hands-on physical layout, design verification, programming and ownership of our internal design workflows, along with leading, developing and managing the layout engineers on your team and raising the standard of layout work across the company. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection

- **Id**: 4276943
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/salience-labs-photonics-layout-lead>
- **Role**: Semiconductors
- **Role family**: Semiconductors
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Oxford, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:29:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:17:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7119
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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

- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **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**: 2026-11-13T22:59:40Z

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