Sr. Engineer - Integrated Photonics Design

Sr. Engineer - Integrated Photonics Design

Location: San Jose

As an integrated photonics design engineer, you will push the envelope of bandwidth density, energy efficiency, and manufacturability of our silicon photonics optical I/O platform, removing the bottlenecks limiting next-generation AI and advanced compute architectures.You will work as part of a small team in a fast-paced, dynamic startup culture, dedicated to the principle that we will succeed and grow by constantly reinventing ourselves.

Essential Functions:

• Design the high-performance integrated photonic components needed for an aggressive optical I/O product roadmap
• Analyze test data to enable device performance and product yield
• Build data infrastructure: extend custom code base for layout, analysis, and automated checking
• Collaborate with teams developing laser, packaging, firmware, and circuits to ensure product success
• Define and validate compact models; utilize and extend system link-model for device optimization
• Work with foundry and OSAT partners to understand process limitations, excursions, and opportunities for new process development

Basic Qualifications:

• MS degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years experience (research or commercial) developing electro-optic systems
• Proficiency with Python, experience writing well-structured code and developing a code base as part of a team
• Deep understanding of photonic devices: couplers, photodetectors, electro-optic modulators, micro-ring resonators, gratings
• Experienced with simulation and design tools for passive and active optical devices (e.g., FDTD, charge transport)
• Experience with silicon-on-insulator and nitride fabrication processes

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in Optical Engineer, EE or related field
• Experience taking an opto-electronic product to market: design, debug and validation
• Experience with statistical analysis of test data, DOE methods
• Hands-on experience with fiber optic test and electro-optic instruments: bit-error-rate testing, automated alignment, polarization controller, spectrum analyzer, waveform generator, reflectometer, etc.
• Experience with Design Validation Testing and handoff to manufacturing
• Familiarity with optical transceiver principles, transmission formats, and industry trends
• Experience with RF systems and measurements
• Familiar with packaging of electro-optical fiber-optic modules
• Familiar with databases and automating data pipelines
• Familiar with electro-optic reliability modeling and testing
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (software, hardware, optical, packaging)

Annual salary range:$150,000 - $192,000

NOTE TO RECRUITERS:

Principals only. We are not accepting resumes from recruiters for this position. Remunerationfor recruiting activities is only applicable subject to a signed and executed agreement between the parties. Please dont send candidates to Ayar Labs, and do not contact our managers.

About Ayar Labs:

At Ayar Labs were about to revolutionize computing by moving data with light.Were unleashing processing power for artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cloud and telecommunications by removing the bottlenecks created by todays electrical I/O -- making it possible to continue scaling computing system performance.Ayar Labs is the first to deliver an optical I/O solution that combines in-package optical I/O chiplets and multi-wavelength remote light sources to replace traditional electrical I/O.This silicon photonics-based I/O solution enables chips to communicate with each other from millimeters to kilometers, to deliver orders of magnitude improvements in latency, bandwidth density, and power consumption.

With our strong collaborations with industry leaders and government, our deep ties to MIT and UC Berkeley, and our commitment to hiring the best engineers in photonics and electronics, joining our team gives you the opportunity to collaborate with renowned experts on challenging, paradigm-shifting work.

We are passionate about delivering in-package optical I/O at scale, leveraging the strength of our patent portfolio and our team of leading interdisciplinary experts.We believe that deep cross-collaboration between teams facilitated by honest, open debate is the best way to drive innovation and achieve big wins.Join our team and experience the possibilities.

Resources:

• Executives from Intel and GLOBALFOUNDRIES share their thoughts on Ayar Labs and the promise of in-package optical I/O (video)
• Ayar Labs in the News and Recent announcements
• LinkedIn and Twitter

Ayar Labs is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is strongly committed to all policies which will afford equal opportunity employment to all qualified persons without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, creed, gender, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Veterans are more than welcome and encouraged to apply.

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