Senior Integrated Photonics Engineer - Active Devices and Circuits

The role

This person will develop active components and circuits for fault-tolerant quantum computers. They will own photonic integration with Foundry Engineering and Test and Measurement teams.

What you will do

• Plan and validate high-volume tests with Foundry and Test teams
• Analyze measurement data and interpret results to improve components and circuits
• Develop new test methods for active photonic components
• Develop new automated analysis methods and improve data analysis infrastructure
• Contribute to photonic tapeouts including design, simulation, layout, and DOE design

Required qualifications

• PhD with relevant exposure to integrated photonics and electro-optic devices
• 3+ years of industry experience in integrated photonics
• Deep expertise in integrated photonic devices including passive and active components
• Strong focus on electro-optic phase shifters and modulators
• Experience coordinating wafer level tests and data analysis across multiple stakeholders
• Experience in the design and modeling of photonic and electro-optic components using tools such as Ansys Lumerical, Tidy3D, COMSOL Multiphysics, or Meep
• Knowledge of modeling photonic circuits (Lumerical Interconnect, SAX etc)
• Experience with photonic tapeouts and layout using script-based layout tools (eg., GDSFactory, Kfactory) and design for test methodology (DFT)
• Expertise in characterization of integrated passive and active photonic components
• Hands-on experience with high-speed characterization techniques (S-parameters, Vpi measurements)
• Familiarity with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, VNAs, high-speed probes, and related RF/photonic test setups
• Proficient in programming with Python

Nice to have

• additional industry experience

Benefits

• competitive health coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with company match
• equity grants
• access to financial wellness tools and planning resources
• wellness benefits
• family support programs
• life and disability insurance
• paid leave programs
• company-designated paid holidays
• discretionary time off (DTO)
• end-of-year company shutdown

About the company

PsiQuantum's mission is to build the first useful quantum computers. Their architecture and approach is based on silicon photonics.