Description
Silicon Photonics Designer
Initial 6 month freelance contract + extensions
Leuven, Belgium
Location
- Please note that working from home is not possible for this position, as the nature of the tasks involved requires being physically present in the office. We believe in fostering a vibrant and interactive work environment that promotes effective collaboration, creativity, and productivity in this challenging assignment. After a training period, home-working could be possible, but the candidate needs to be living in Belgium.
You will work in a team of photonic engineers developing photonic ICs (PICs) for a wide range of next generation applications. You will employ our client's cutting edge silicon photonics technologies to develop novel PICs and sub-systems for communication, (bio-)sensors, quantum photonics, lidar, photo-acoustics and so on.
The assignment
- Design, model and layout photonic components and circuits
- Setup design of experiments and analyse test data
- Communicate your insights to internal cross-functional teams, technology developers and external partners
- Lead R&D projects and interact with external and internal customers
- Translate customer requirements into system concepts and PIC architectures
- Improve existing photonic platforms and contribute to new photonic concepts for emerging applications
- Continuously align with process, characterization, application and system experts.
Required knowledge and skills
- A PhD in Photonics, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related field with at least 2 years of experience in silicon photonic design.
- In-depth knowledge of integrated photonics.
- Extensive expertise in design, optimization and layout of Si photonic components and circuits.
- Hands-on experience with photonic modelling software (eg Lumerical).
- Hands-on experience with layout tools (eg Luceda Ipkiss, Cadence, L-edit). Experience with Ipkiss is a plus.
- Good programming skills. Experience with Python is a strong plus.
- Experience with experimental setups, characterization and packaging of PICs is an advantage.
- Experience with actives integration (lasers, photodetectors, modulators) is a plus.
- The ability to work according to agreed customer timelines and manage time efficiently according to the project schedules.