# Senior Photonics Design Engineer

About us Salience Labs is developing optical circuit switching technology for AI infrastructure, aimed at significantly reducing latency and cost in data centre networks. As we move towards real-world deployment, you’ll have genuine ownership of your area, working alongside a highly technical team of physicists, engineers and software specialists on one of the hardest problems in AI infrastructure. Job Overview This role will focus on the design, optimisation, and development of high performance photonic components for next generation Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs), contributing directly to our future tape-outs and core IP roadmap. You will work closely with photonics designers, layout engineers, and testing teams to improve the performance of integrated photonic devices through theoretical analysis, simulation, modelling, and design innovation. This is a highly technical role suited to someone who enjoys solving difficult physics and engineering problems in a collaborative deep-tech environment. You will take a lead role in the development of key building blocks within our optical switching and photonic systems roadmap, and other integrated photonic components critical to fut

- **Id**: 4276939
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/salience-labs-senior-photonics-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Semiconductors
- **Role family**: Semiconductors
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Oxford, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T17:06:59Z
- **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

- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **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**: 2026-11-13T22:36:39Z

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