Senior Silicon Photonics Designer

Team: Product Development

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Commitment: Full-Time

Workplace Type: onsite

Salary:

nEye.ai, a well-funded optical switch startup, is poised to revolutionize the future of data centers. nEye’s MEMS-based silicon photonics optical circuit switches (OCS) eliminate critical bottlenecks in AI processing by enabling direct optical connections among thousands of GPUs and memory units. The company's SuperSwitch is an ultra-low power consumption, high radix, compact chip-scale design, offering hyperscale data centers enhanced performance, efficiency, and scalability.

Position Summary 

As a Silicon Photonics Designer at nEye Systems, you will be responsible for the development process for complex photonic devices and systems-on-chip, from design through fabrication, testing and analysis. You will be an active participant in regular company strategy meetings, including addressing our chip manufacturing technology strategies. You will be successful if you thrive in a fast-paced environment, can participate in multiple work streams simultaneously, are passionate about solving problems and learning.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the Senior Engineer when collaborating with other nEye groups to optimize chip design for product system-level requirements
• Driving specific device designs and collaborating on fabrication methodologies.
• Designing photonic components and photonic integrated circuits to advance our optical switch technology.
• Developing, overseeing, and performing photonic component and system-level testing.
• Working cross-functionally with system and fabrication team members to develop improved optical switch capabilities.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Applied Physics, Chemistry, or a related technical discipline.
• 4-8+ years hands-on experience with Silicon Photonics in an industry setting
• Strong understanding of microfabrication processes and related constraints on photonic component designs.
• Strong understanding and proficient experience of photonic component simulation tools such as FDTD, EME, FEM, or FIT.
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Experience with photonic integrated circuit layout and photonics foundry tape-out.
• Experience with designing and executing detailed photonic device experiments and characterization protocols.
• Strong communication skills in collaboration, verbal presentation, and written reports.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication (written and oral), and leadership skills.