Silicon Photonics Engineer

The role

This person will drive the design and implementation of next-generation photonic integrated circuits. The role spans the full development cycle from device concept and simulation to physical layout, tapeout support, and design verification.

What you will do

• Interacts with device, hardware, and system design teams to assist in overall development of photonic systems and devices.
• Supports foundry tape outs with photonic device design, design of experiments, layout, design verification, PDK development, and software development.
• Develops comprehensive documentation for tapeouts.
• Provides multi-disciplinary support to component and systems teams by resolving technical issues associated with components, parts, or systems.
• Applies quantitative analysis in determining root cause of highly technical problems and proposes, develops, and implements solutions for corrective action.

Required qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in Electrical Engineering or Physics.
• 5 years of relevant work or academic research experience in integrated photonics.
• Strong computational and analytical skills applied to photonic device design and performance evaluation.
• In-depth knowledge of photonic devices, including performance metrics and testing techniques.
• Extensive experience with photonic design using commercial software platforms such as Lumerical simulation suite.
• Photonic layout experience using tools such as IPKISS, gdsfactory, or equivalent.
• Extensive experience with Python for scientific applications and data analysis.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.

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 using an architecture based on silicon photonics. The company focuses on building and deploying million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems.