Senior Photonic-Integrated-Circuit Engineer

The world is transforming - and so is Intel. Intel is a company of bold and curious inventors and problem solvers who create some of the most astounding technological advancements and experiences in the world. With a legacy of relentless innovation and a commitment to bring smart, connected devices to every person on Earth, our diverse and brilliant teams are continually searching for tomorrow's technology and revel in the challenge that changing the world for the better brings. We work every single day to design and manufacture silicon products that empower people's digital lives. Come join us and do something wonderful. 

Primary duties and responsibilities: 

• Defines and drives overall integrated silicon photonic chip development plan at system and device level, possessing expertise in the design and simulation of silicon photonic integrated circuit components and systems.  

• Designs and optimizes photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and plays a key role in the development of photonic technologies including complex active and passive large-scale PICs.  

• Owns overall silicon PIC development execution and coordination from architecture definition and chip design, to layout, test, validation, data analysis, and covers performance debug, reliability qualification, and KGD delivery.  

• Works cross functionally with foundries, design, validation, quality and reliability teams.

Minimum Qualifications:  

MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a similar discipline with 5+ years of experience in a related field with years of relevant industry experience in the required skills section below OR PhD Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a similar discipline and 3+ years of experience in a related field with years of relevant industry experience in the required skills section below.
 

Required Skills: 

•Experience in development of photonic-integrated-circuits from concept to high volume manufacturing.
•Experience designing, simulating, and testing complex PIC's, including link budget analysis, electrical power budgets, back-reflection budgets, Monte Carlo models and other performance indicators.  

•Familiarity using optical design and simulation tools such as Lumerical (FDTD, MODE, DEVICE, Interconnect), RSoft, Tidy3D, Harold, Photon Design, or numerical simulation tools such as Matlab or Python. 
•Experience contributing to or leading PIC tape-outs. Familiarity with layout tools such as Candence, KLayout, Synopsys Optocompiler, or GDSFactory.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Exposure to standard photonic test methodologies and equipment such as optical spectrum analyzers, tunable lasers, optical backscatter reflectometers, optical vector analyzers, fiber or free-space coupling. 
• Exposure to EDA/PDA tools and methodologies. Familiarity with LVS, SDL, and DRC. 
• PIC test data analysis and design optimization including using statistical analysis using tools such as JMP or statistical libraries in matlab or python.