Photonic Architect

Skills

About the Role

You will contribute to photonic architecture for transceiver products. You will analyze how photonic effects interact with SerDes, drivers, and TIAs; simulate end-to-end optical links; develop solutions to maintain error rates at increasing throughput and density; and validate simulations through remote hardware testing.

Requirements

• Pursue a PhD in Photonics, Optics, or Electrical Engineering with a specialization in optical communications
• Have experience with optical link simulations using tools such as VPIphotonics, Matlab, Virtuoso, or ADS
• Have coursework in electromagnetics, semiconductor devices and physics, optics, scientific computing, numerical methods, signals and systems, statistics, thermal physics, and analog electronics
• Have Python programming experience
• Understand data collection and analysis
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills
• Have capacity to comply with U.S. export control requirements

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Passage transceiver product architecture with a focus on photonic architecture
• Analyze interactions between photonic effects and the performance of SerDes, drivers, and TIAs
• Develop solutions to maintain error rates in optical communications products
• Simulate end-to-end optical links, including fiber polarization, optical reflections, and thermal dynamics
• Collaborate with the test team to perform remote testing on hardware
• Define test plans and correlate test results with simulations

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care plan
• Retirement savings matching program
• Life insurance
• Paid vacation, sick time, and public holidays
• Paid family leave
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Commuter benefits
• Flexible hybrid workplace model
• Equity grants for eligible full-time employees