Member of Technical Staff, Silicon Photonics Integration - United States
Originally posted 21 August 2026 by the employer — open 32 days.
About the role
This role defines and drives end-to-end integration of silicon-photonics-based optical engines and modules, with an initial product focus on coherent transmission.
What you'll do
- Own the integration architecture for coherent transmission products from component and PIC/EIC interfaces through the optical engine, module, and system.
- Lead design tradeoffs across SiPh PICs, coherent DSP/ASICs, drivers and TIAs, lasers and passive optics, high-speed electrical interfaces, package/interconnect, PCB, thermal/mechanical design, and embedded control.
- Develop link budgets, impairment and margin stacks, calibration/monitoring strategies, and predictive models.
- Partner with product, program, manufacturing, test, quality, reliability, firmware, sourcing, foundry, OSAT, contract-manufacturing, and supplier teams to manage technical risks and deliver DFM/DFT, production calibration, yield learning, cost, schedule, and volume-ramp objectives.
- Shape coherent and silicon-photonics technology roadmaps.
What you'll need
- Master's or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, Optics, Applied Physics, or a closely related field, or a bachelor's degree with substantial directly relevant experience.
- 15+ years of relevant industry experience, including technical leadership in optical communication systems and silicon-photonics or photonic-integrated-circuit product development.
- Demonstrated delivery of complex optical hardware through architecture, detailed design, prototype bring-up, design verification, qualification, manufacturing transfer, and volume ramp.
- Deep knowledge of coherent transmitter/receiver architecture, modulation and detection, optical link budgets, OSNR, dispersion, polarization effects, nonlinearities, and DSP/hardware impairment interactions.
- Hands-on knowledge of SiPh PIC characterization and integration with EICs, lasers, fiber attach and optical coupling, advanced package/interconnect technologies, and high-speed electrical interfaces.
- Working knowledge of DFM, DFT, reliability physics, qualification methods, configuration/change control, failure analysis, production test, and quality systems for high-volume optoelectronic products.
Nice to have
- Experience with coherent optical products such as 400ZR/800ZR, coherent pluggables, digital coherent optics, transponders, or comparable high-speed transmission platforms.
Skills: silicon photonics, PIC/EIC, coherent transmission, optical engine, integration architecture
This role has been open 31 days — well below the 62-day median for Optical/Photonics IC Design roles.
Optical/Photonics IC Design · Photonics
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Open roles in category
121
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Median days open
62 d
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Median salary
$195k
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| Metric | Coherent Corp | All employers we track in this specialty (121 roles · 31 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 15 | 121 |
| Median days open | 62 d | 62 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Skills observed across this category: silicon photonics, PIC/EIC, coherent transmission, optical engine, integration architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- GlobalFoundries · 18 open roles · median 56 d
- Lightmatter · 17 open roles · median 69 d
- Coherent Corp (this employer) · 15 open roles · median 62 d
- Lumentum · 8 open roles · median 49 d
- PsiQuantum · 6 open roles · median 111 d
- Ayar Labs · 5 open roles · median 46 d
How we counted: 121 open Optical/Photonics IC Design (Photonics) roles from 31 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.