Photonics Circuit Designer

The role

This person will design and optimize high-performance integrated photonic circuits. The role involves data-driven modeling, full simulation of complex circuits, and coordination of circuit layout.

What you will do

• Data-driven modeling of linear photonic devices at different scales and with diverse methods.
• Design and optimization of photonic circuits.
• Full simulation of complex photonic circuits, including modeling of photon-pair generation through spontaneous four-wave mixing.
• Schematic representation of photonic circuits.
• Coordination of photonic circuits layout.
• Data analysis to evaluate and understand the performance of photonic devices and circuits.
• Collaboration with component design and circuit characterization teams to ensure the validation of photonic circuits.

Required qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in Electrical Engineering or Physics.
• 5 years of relevant work or academic research experience in integrated photonics.
• In-depth knowledge of photonic devices, including performance metrics and testing techniques.
• Extensive experience with photonic design using commercial software platforms.
• Experience with integrated photonic circuit layout.
• Extensive experience with Python for scientific applications and data manipulation.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.

Nice to have

• Experience using the Wolfram Language is a plus.

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits

About the company

PsiQuantum's mission is to build the first useful quantum computers. The company uses silicon photonics to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems.