Staff PIC Development Engineer at infinera in Sunnyvale, CA

The broad job responsibilities include hands-on work in designing of integrated photonic components, implementing the process through the fab, and testing the resulting circuits to verify performance. Infinera is committed to developing high capacity transport and routable subcarrier edge network solutions. The successful candidate will work within the PIC design and engineering team and engage in design, simulation, data analysis, and lead product development from reliable design concepts, performance verification, and optimization and transfer to manufacturing. Experience in the required key areas is listed below.

Job Requirements

• Significant experience in optical components design for performance, especially for InP devices, such as lasers, SOAs, high-speed modulators, and detectors, is required.
• Experience in optical and electronic modeling and simulation software to design electro-optical devices, lithographic mask specifications, and pattern generation is required.
• InP opto-electronic fabrication process development hands-on experience is required and material characterization and epitaxy knowledge and experience are highly desired.
• Ability to work with a large body of data and the necessary statistical analysis tools, and the ability to present the data and ideas to a diverse audience.
• The Job will require frequent collaborative interaction with fab, epitaxy, test and reliability engineering, packaging, product engineering, and system engineering groups.

Experience and Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or a related discipline with emphasis in optical communications and high-speed optical components. We are seeking candidates with significant experience developing active optical devices, preferably with applicable industrial experience.