Senior Fiber Assembly Process Engineer

The role

The Senior Fiber Assembly Process Engineer will develop advanced assembly instrumentation for high-performance fiber splicing. This role involves studying fiber and splice reliability and combining fiber engineering, opto-mechanical automation, and semiconductor process development.

What you will do

• Study and root-cause sources of fiber splice loss and loss variability.
• Develop and deploy advanced fiber processing equipment working with industrial partners.
• Develop advanced measurement methodologies for validating fiber and fiber splice losses at datacenter scale.
• Use optical simulation tools to model behavior and performance fiber-fiber interfaces for a wide range of advanced fiber designs.
• Assess modal properties, loss mechanisms, dispersion, coupling, and other key fiber characteristics through optical modeling and experimental validation.
• Work with the optical packaging and assembly validation teams to develop and deliver test methods for the performance and reliability of fiber interfaces.

Required qualifications

• MSc or PhD in photonics, optics, physics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience in fiber optics, optical system development and assembly.
• Strong understanding of optical fibers and fiber splicing and measurement equipment.
• Familiar with key opto-mechanical packaging and assembly equipment.
• Proficiency in Python and JMP.
• Experience with mechanical and/or optical instrumentation automation and control.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with back-end semiconductor packaging is a plus.

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. The company uses silicon photonics to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems.