Staff Design Engineer - Integrated Photonics

Posted 21 days agoViewed

💎 Seniority level: Staff, 5+ years

💸 Salary: 123191.0 - 161289.0 USD per year

🏢 Company: IonQ👥 251-500💰 $350,000,000 Post-IPO Equity over 3 years agoComputer Electronics Information Services Quantum Computing Information Technology

⏳ Experience: 5+ years

Requirements:

5+ years of experience in the hands-on design, simulation, and optimization of PIC devices, including passive components, high-speed modulators, and on-chip detectors.

3+ years of programming experience in a general-purpose programming language (like Python, Matlab, etc.)

Experience with simulation tools for designing integrated photonic devices, such as Lumerical, COMSOL, Flexcompute, or similar

Experience with scripted mask design and layout for PICs

Strong data processing, visualization, and organizational skills

Familiarity with fabrication processes, design constraints, test, and packaging requirements for PICs

Experience with optimization algorithms for automated PIC design

Responsibilities:

Design, simulate, and optimize passive and active photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for integration into trapped-ion quantum computing systems, with an emphasis on high-speed modulators and on-chip detectors

Develop integrated photonics designs to improve design robustness to fabrication variation and to ease test and packaging.

Build up the active PIC design workflow, optimize design workflow to minimize computational resources and speed up the PIC simulations, and maintain high-quality, scalable, well-tested scripts through architecture and code reviews

Use device characterization data as feedback for design and fabrication to improve PIC performance

Drive, review, and finalize device specifications in collaboration with the system team, system integrators, and product team

Collaborate with the packaging and test team to optimize the device design based on aligned requirements

Deliver the layout file (.gds, .oas) for the designed optical element in the selected fabrication platform, run DRC checks, and be responsible for the component tape-out

Identify, track, and resolve or mitigate execution roadblocks and technical risks

Provide clear, concise communication to management and team members in different forums and for a variety of backgrounds and expertise

Teamwork: Strong team player with the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders, such as testing engineers and physicists, who depend on the PIC design results

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