Silicon Photonics Component Design Engineer (Silicon Photonics)

Location: On-site in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Annual salary: $141,910–$269,100 USD

Company

hirify.global Foundry develops silicon photonics platforms and high-volume manufacturing technologies for optical interconnects, data center communications, co-packaged optics, and optical networking.

What you will do

• Design, simulate, and develop photonic components, including lasers, modulators, high-speed photodetectors, passive devices, and waveguide structures.
• Contribute to photonic integrated circuit design and architecture evaluations.
• Perform tolerance studies and design evaluations to improve performance, manufacturability, and reliability.
• Support test chip implementation, layout coordination, tape-out preparation, fabrication collaboration, and silicon validation.
• Analyze characterization data to identify performance trends, root causes, and design improvements.
• Develop photonic device models, simulation workflows, automation tools, and test methodologies.

Requirements

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline with 2+ years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree in a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with high-speed photonic devices such as optical modulators or photodetectors.
• Experience with photonic design and simulation tools such as Sentaurus, Silvaco, Lumerical, HFSS, ADS, or RSoft.
• Experience with photonic device testing, characterization, and data analysis using MATLAB, Python, JMP, or similar tools.
• Experience with photonic layout design using Cadence, KLayout, or comparable environments.
• Ability to work on-site in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.

Nice to have

• Experience designing silicon photonic modulators or detectors, including micro-ring modulators, heaters, carrier-injection devices, and passive waveguide structures.
• Familiarity with advanced photonic materials such as BTO, TFLN, or III-V integration.
• Understanding of high-speed electronic ICs, including TIAs, drivers, equalization, and DSP concepts.
• Experience with optical link modeling, system-level performance analysis, and photonic devices operating at 100G+ data rates.
• Semiconductor foundry development, customer-facing product development, publications, presentations, or patent experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with multidisciplinary engineering, fabrication, and test teams.
• Opportunities to evaluate emerging photonic technologies and contribute to proof-of-concept demonstrations.
• Opportunities to contribute to patents, technical publications, and innovation activities.
• Competitive pay, stock bonuses, health benefits, retirement benefits, and vacation.
• Shift 1 work schedule in the United States.