About the role#
This team designs active and passive silicon photonics devices and systems that are core to Lightmatter products. You will work on the physics and working principles of device designs, create test plans and layouts, analyze data, and build models.
What you'll do#
- Design high-performance passive and active silicon photonics devices using software such as Lumerical, Tidy3D, and Cadence.
- Develop automated inverse design of silicon photonic components.
- Create control algorithms for photonics subsystems for real-world use cases.
- Assess fabrication variability and operational performance of silicon photonic components.
- Develop and implement testing and analysis methodology, including design-for-test, design-for-manufacturing, and design-of-experiments.
- Design and execute model creation for silicon photonics chips and subsystems based on measurement data.
- Close the loop between design and simulations.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in a PhD program specializing in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or a related field.
- Understanding of silicon photonics or general photonics.
- Experience in electro-optic design of silicon photonics components.
- Ability to solve problems without obvious solutions.
- Exposure to automated design and analysis using Python scripting.
- Ability to translate data into actionable strategies and build structure through processes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Capacity to comply with federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.
- Preferred: Experience in design of high-speed transceiver systems, work with foundries, or exposure to designing PDK components.
Location & details#
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Modality: Hybrid.
- Employment: Full-time internship.
About Lightmatter
Lightmatter operates in the computer hardware manufacturing industry. The company builds technology designed to improve computer processing capabilities. It is a privately held organization founded in 2017. The business is based in Mountain View, California, and maintains a staff of 201 to 500 employees.
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