PIC Design Engineer

Key Responsibilities:
Support Design and simulation activities of passive and active components within the Oriole PDK

Work collaboratively within the Oriole PIC team on mask layout and support tape-out cycles into a commercial foundry

Support collaborative activities between Oriole and its suppliers

Support Test, Characterisation and Design Verification of Oriole's PIC program, deliver data analysis and verification reports.

Essential Skills:
PhD in Physics with a focus on Photonics, Semiconductors or Optical Networks.

Strong simulation skills in photonics (FDTD, EME) and hands on experience with commercial relevant software

Strong Layout/Mask Design skills using commercial photonic layout tools (e.g. Synopsys, GDS Factory, Nazca, Klayout)

Strong programming skills (Python), and familiar with version control methodology

Experience in device physics and design of III-V semiconductor optical devices such as lasers, optical amplifiers, modulators and detectors

Experience on passive Si/SiN photonics design, simulation, layout and characterisation.

A good understanding of photonic process integration and understanding of processing limitations on PIC performance (principles of design for manufacture)

Use of ML/AI methodologies or other computational optimisation techniques in photonic design simulations

Desired Skills:
Photonic device characterisation, hands on experience with testing methodologies for wafer level and die level test

High speed RF design characterisation

RF/Thermal simulation experience a plus.

Good understanding of Optical networks and Applications of photonics for AI in data centres

A good understanding of Photonic device manufacturing principles, Design for manufacture, Design for test and reliability.

Good understanding of PIC parameter impact on system performance (e.g. such as BER, link budget, power penalties etc), any system modelling experience a plus.

Excellent Communication and presentation skills, team working