PIC Design Engineer

You’ll own devices from first-principles simulation and PIC design through cleanroom fabrication to measured silicon, with significant influence over the technical direction of the photonics platform.
The role

Design visible-light PICs including waveguides, couplers, MMIs, MZIs, resonators and subwavelength structures
Develop fibre-to-chip coupling and interfaces for heterogeneously integrated lasers and photodetectors
Perform FDTD, eigenmode and propagation simulations
Take designs through layout, fabrication and characterisation
Work hands-on with e-beam lithography, ICP-RIE, thin-film deposition and evaporation
Characterise optical thin films and fabricated photonic devices
Use Python to automate simulations, parameter sweeps and data analysis
Help define the technical direction of the photonics platform

Your background

Strong hands-on PIC/waveguide design experience, ideally at visible wavelengths
Experience with Lumerical/FDTD and photonic simulation
Strong passive photonics knowledge, including couplers and resonant devices
Hands-on cleanroom and nanofabrication experience
Understanding of heterogeneous integration and mode matching
Experience with optical characterisation and thin-film processes
Python skills; KLayout, GDSFactory or IPKISS advantageous

A rare opportunity to combine advanced PIC design, visible photonics and hands-on nanofabrication, taking technology from simulation all the way through to fabricated and characterised devices while helping shape a new photonics platform.