Jobs at OpenLight

Coordinate cross-functional technical programs from planning through production, managing schedules, dependencies, risks, suppliers, documentation, and stakeholder communications. Partner with engineering, operations, customers, and manufacturing vendors across silicon photonics and semiconductor development. Drive milestone reviews, recovery plans, process improvements, and alignment with technical, quality, schedule, resource, and budget objectives.

Coordinate cross-functional technical programs from planning through production, managing schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, suppliers, and deliverables. Partner with engineering, operations, product management, customers, and manufacturing partners across silicon photonics and hardware development. Facilitate reviews, maintain project documentation and dashboards, communicate status to stakeholders, and improve project management processes while ensuring technical, quality, schedule, and budget objectives are met.

Paid summer internship testing photonic integrated circuit hardware in a laboratory environment. Responsibilities include building and modifying photonic test stations, operating optical and electronic test equipment, writing Python automation programs, collecting and analyzing system-level data, and preparing test reports. Candidates should be pursuing a graduate degree in electrical engineering, photonics, or a related field, with basic coding and laboratory equipment experience.

Engineering interns will support photonic device modeling, PIC design and verification, or photonics test engineering. Responsibilities include simulation, device optimization, circuit layout, characterization, test-station development, Python-based test automation, data analysis, reporting, and collaboration with design, fabrication, and process engineering teams.

Paid internship evaluating photonic integrated circuit hardware in a laboratory environment. Responsibilities include building and modifying photonic test stations, operating optical spectrum analyzers and oscilloscopes, writing Python automation scripts, collecting and analyzing system-level data, and preparing test reports with clear conclusions. The intern will collaborate with senior photonic systems engineers and support customer adoption of silicon photonics technology.

Designs, models, tests, and debugs photonic integrated circuits, high-speed components, transceivers, and optical systems. Responsibilities include RF small- and large-signal modeling, optical link analysis, evaluation-board data correlation, performance characterization, customer documentation, and collaboration with internal teams, ecosystem partners, and customers. The role requires hands-on laboratory testing, high-speed driver/TIA interface expertise, Python programming, Keysight ADS proficiency, and schematic and PCB familiarity.

Develop and maintain automated photonic mask-build workflows, PDK releases, parameterized cells, compact models, and physical verification infrastructure. Build CI/CD pipelines, regression suites, and automated QA for reliable mask releases. Partner with EDA vendors, process engineers, device designers, and architects to automate design workflows, investigate quality escapes, and improve manufacturing readiness.

Designs, simulates, lays out, and characterizes high-speed integrated photodetectors, including PIN, APD, and waveguided structures. Responsibilities include optical and RF modeling, custom mask layout, foundry process optimization, and electro-optic testing of devices operating beyond 200 Gbps per lane. The role requires collaboration with process integration, validation, test, customer, and manufacturing teams to transition photonic components from concept through high-volume production.

Lead end-to-end supplier relationships across wafer, epitaxial, backend, and PCB suppliers. Manage POs, lead times, forecasts, capacity, risk mitigation, supplier negotiations, QBRs, supplier qualifications, inventory data, and support engineering for R&D and production ramps.

Perform hands-on lab characterization and high-speed optical testing of photonic components and PICs, build and automate test stations, develop/debug firmware and test code, analyze data and communicate results, support customer integration and demos at events, and generate customer-facing documentation.

Create and maintain photonic device and PIC layouts using commercial and custom tools; implement photonic design automation workflows; perform physical verification and mask build automation to produce GDS artwork; collaborate with process engineers and PDK developers to ensure manufacturability and drive quality improvements.

Design, simulate, and validate passive silicon and silicon nitride photonic components (couplers, grating couplers, spot size converters). Create datasheets and CAD layouts, develop compact PDK models, and collaborate with process, layout, test, PIC architects, and system teams to define, fabricate, and verify device performance.

Design, support, and qualify photonic integrated circuits (PICs) across prototype and development stages. Perform layout reviews, test planning, device and system-level data analysis, characterization, and statistical evaluation. Drive debugging, root-cause analysis, performance optimization, and collaborate with test, system, operations, and reliability teams to ensure product release and yield improvement.

Manage end-to-end heterogeneous Si–III‑V photonic wafer fabrication with external foundries: create fabrication plans, lead process reviews, monitor lots, drive yield improvement through SPC/PCM, oversee wafer bonding and failure analysis, implement control plans, and contribute to PDK and new process module development.

Design, simulate, and integrate semiconductor optical amplifiers and other III-V optoelectronic devices into a heterogeneous silicon photonics platform. Define CAD layouts, develop compact PDK models, collaborate with process, layout, test, reliability, and PIC teams, and lead device characterization, validation, and failure analysis to meet performance and qualification targets.