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We are looking for a Photonic Design Engineer with a strong foundation in integrated photonics and hands on experience designing, simulating and implementing photonic circuits and components. Going beyond layout work: You will be tasked with translating device concepts into manufacturable designs, validating them through simulation and ensuring compliance with process design rules.

Activities

Responsibilities

• PDK and Process Integration:
  Work with and extend existing foundry PDKs. Understanding process constraints, design rules and partner specifications and apply them effectively.
• Photonic Design:
  Design, analyze and optimize core photonic components such as waveguides, MMIs, Directional Couplers, Crossings, Filters. Perform device level simulations using EME FDTD and FEM solvers.
• Layout and Code Review:
  Create photonic circuits using programmatic design tools. Review and maintain design code to ensure correctness, hierarchical design, and good code principles for effective team collaboration
• Design Validation and Optimization:
  Implement component models into circuit simulations to evaluate device performance, identify sensitivities to design variables and optimize designs for fabrication tolerances and partner capabilities.

Requirements

Experience

• Has done (5+) Designs from schematic to tape-out
• Has worked with various photonics foundries (2+)
• Worked in a commercial photonic design team for (2+) years

Skills

• Experience and understanding of photonics Maxwell simulation software (Photon Design, Ansys Lumerical, Cadence Opto-designer)
• Experience with photonic circuit simulation
• Programming (python preferred)
• Programmatic layout design (Nazca, GDS-Factory, GDS-Helper, Luceda IPKISS)
• Spatial Reasoning and topology
• PDK design

Knowledge

• Integrated Photonic Circuits and theory of Photonics
• Code principles
• Familiarity with photonic research and literature.
• Foundry Processes, PDK usage and DRC
• Understanding of photonics experimental procedures and hardware (Lasers, Diodes, Amplifiers…)

Education

• At least a Bachelors degree in Physics, Computer Science or any other relevant field
• Preferred Masters degree in a relevant field
• Bonus+ PhD in Photonics

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge and experience with electronic design

Application Process

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About the Company

Akhetonics is creating the world’s first all-optical XPU, a cross-domain processor for general-purpose, ultra-low power, high-performance computing and AI. Furthermore, our photonic processors are created using a purely European supply chain, from fabrication to packaging, allowing for an unmatched security in the high-performance computing domain.