Senior Photonics Design Engineer, Actives Design

Job Description

• Defines and drives photonics components development and understands and influences the architecture of photonics integrated circuits.
• Architects, designs, simulates, and develops photonics components such as lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, passives, high-speed detectors, and modulators, and/or III-V solutions on silicon platform.
• Performs tolerance analysis and optimizes components for performance, power, area, and reliability.
• Drives overall test chip execution and coordination including chip design, layout, tape-out, test, and validation.
• Analyzes test data from characterizations, identifies performance gaps, and drives improvement paths.
• Develops and implements photonics components and system modeling methodologies and proposes and implements new test methodologies.
• Conducts research in novel photonics components and technologies, defines next generation components architectures, and initiates and drives IP development programs.

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.e

Minimum Qualifications:

- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Optical Physics, Optical Communications, Optical Science or similar discipline with 4+ years relevant experience

4+ years' experience in the following:  

• Designing, simulating, and testing high-speed optical modulators for 50+Gbaud in Si or IIIV, active components such as heaters or carrier injection devices, passive silicon photonic devices, or other material systems and devices including micro-ring, Mach-Zehnder, and electro-absorption modulators.
• Optical/RF design and simulation tools such as Sentaurus, Silvaco, HFSS, ADS, Lumerical (FDTD, MODE, DEVICE, Interconnect), RSoft, Tidy3D, Harold-Photon Design, or numerical simulation tools such as Matlab or python.

- 3+ years of experience in development of silicon photonics ICs from concept to high volume manufacturing

- Experience contributing to or leading a PIC tapeout such as the PIC architecture, component design, or layout

- 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.

- PIC test data analysis and design optimization including using statistical analysis using tools such as JMP or statistical libraries in matlab or python

- Familiarity with layout tools such as Candence and KLayout

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with silicon photonic microring modulator design 
• Understanding of various high-speed electronic ICs, including modulator drivers, linear and limiting TIAs, post amps, FFE/DFE Filters, DSPs, etc
• Experience in development of optical modulators bias control
• Experience with system-level link modeling

Inside this Business Group

The Data Center & Artificial Intelligence Group (DCAI) is at the heart of Intel’s transformation from a PC company to a company that runs the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices. The data center is the underpinning for every data-driven service, from artificial intelligence to 5G to high-performance computing, and DCG delivers the products and technologies—spanning software, processors, storage, I/O, and networking solutions—that fuel cloud, communications, enterprise, and government data centers around the world.

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here.Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US $161,230.00-$227,620.00*Salary range dependent on a number of factors including location and experience

Working Model

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.