Integrated Photonics Team leader

The role

You will lead and mentor a multidisciplinary integrated photonics team. You will own the photonic hardware stack and drive platform and PDK development.

What you will do

• Lead, manage, and mentor a multidisciplinary integrated photonics team
• Own the end-to-end photonic hardware stack
• Drive platform and PDK development
• Manage relationships with photonic foundries
• Support assembly, packaging, and hybrid photonic–electronic integration
• Collaborate cross-functionally with systems, electronics, software, characterisation, quantum science teams, and external partners

Required qualifications

• PhD in Integrated Photonics, Microelectronics, Applied Physics, or a closely related field
• Strong academic background in integrated photonics
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in integrated photonics design and development
• Proven experience leading and mentoring technical teams
• Success taking PIC designs through full fabrication cycles with industrial foundries, including Si, SiN, and EO modulator platforms
• Experience with PDK or photonic platform development, including robustness and fabrication tolerance analysis
• Strong understanding of optical, electrical, and thermal co-design and integration
• Hands-on experience with assembly, packaging, and chip-level integration

About the company

Quix Quantum is building the next generation of photonic quantum technologies.