Sr. Staff Engineer - Photonics

As a Photonics Engineer, you will take on the prototyping and initial system-level test of our next-generation hardware, bringing up advanced photonic features. You are an expert in high-speed testing, comfortable working on complex custom hardware and developing a control API. Come join a team of photonic, circuit and firmware designers to achieve the bandwidth, density and energy efficiency needed for tomorrow’s AI applications!

Essential Functions:

• Bring up new photonics features in custom opto-electronic hardware
• Perform tests, improve test procedures and analyze data to enable improvements in device performance and product yield
• Work closely with teams developing laser, package, photonic, and electronic circuits to ensure product success
• Improve data infrastructure: extend code base for validation, analysis, and initialization
• Develop and validate compact models and system link-model

Basic Qualifications:

• MS degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years (if MS) or 2+ years (if Ph.D.) of industry experience developing electro-optic systems
• Hands-on experience testing high-speed optical links
• Familiar with communications testing instruments: bit-error-rate tester, DCA, polarization controller, spectrum analyzer, etc.
• Experience taking an opto-electronic product to market: design, debug and validation
• Experience with Design Validation Testing and handoff to manufacturing
• Proficiency with Python
• Understanding of photonic devices: waveguides, couplers, photodetectors, electro-optic modulators, micro-ring resonators
• Experience with statistical analysis of test data, DOE methods

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• Experience bringing up custom electronic hardware
• Experience developing and validating link and optical system models
• Familiar with feedback control
• Familiarity with optical transceiver principles, transmission formats, and industry trends
• Experience with RF systems and measurements
• Familiar with packaging of electro-optical fiber-optic modules
• Familiar with databases and automating data pipelines
• Familiar with electro-optic reliability modeling and testing
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (firmware, hardware, packaging)

Salary range: $170,000 - $200,000

NOTE TO RECRUITERS:

Principals only. We are not accepting resumes from recruiters for this position. Remuneration for recruiting activities is only applicable subject to a signed and executed agreement between the parties. Please don’t send candidates to Ayar Labs, and do not contact our managers.

About Ayar Labs:

At Ayar Labs we’re about to revolutionize computing by moving data with light. We’re unleashing processing power for artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cloud and telecommunications by removing the bottlenecks created by today’s electrical I/O -- making it possible to continue scaling computing system performance. Ayar Labs is the first to deliver an optical I/O solution that combines in-package optical I/O chiplets and multi-wavelength remote light sources to replace traditional electrical I/O. This silicon photonics-based I/O solution enables chips to communicate with each other from millimeters to kilometers, to deliver orders of magnitude improvements in latency, bandwidth density, and power consumption.

With our strong collaborations with industry leaders and government, our deep ties to MIT and UC Berkeley, and our commitment to hiring the best engineers in photonics and electronics, joining our team gives you the opportunity to collaborate with renowned experts on challenging, paradigm-shifting work.

We are passionate about delivering in-package optical I/O at scale, leveraging the strength of our patent portfolio and our team of leading interdisciplinary experts. We believe that deep cross-collaboration between teams facilitated by honest, open debate is the best way to drive innovation and achieve big wins. Join our team and experience the possibilities.

Resources:

• Executives from Intel and GLOBALFOUNDRIES share their thoughts on Ayar Labs and the promise of in-package optical I/O (video)
• Ayar Labs in the News and Recent announcements
•  LinkedIn and Twitter

Ayar Labs is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is strongly committed to all policies which will afford equal opportunity employment to all qualified persons without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, creed, gender, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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