Photonic Layout Engineer
$130,000 - $230,000 USD yearly
About the role
You will create and maintain layouts of photonic devices and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) on OpenLight's silicon photonics platform.
What you'll do
- Participate in the development and implementation of photonic design automation workflows.
- Perform physical verification of mask data to ensure design and manufacturability requirements are met.
- Use custom-built and commercially available tools to design layouts of photonic components and circuits.
- Maintain and execute automated mask build workflows to generate artwork in GDS file format.
- Work with process engineers to ensure layout compatibility with developing design rules and guidelines.
- Monitor for quality escapes, perform root cause analysis, and implement improvements.
What you'll need
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Computer Science, or a related engineering discipline.
- Strong programming and scripting skills, preferably Python.
- Knowledge of semiconductor design and/or fabrication.
- Knowledge of optics and/or photonics theory and design.
- Experience with version control, CI/CD pipeline software, and Agile.
- Proficiency in a commercial photonic layout tool such as Synopsys OptoCompiler & ICV, GDSFactory, Luceda IPKISS, or KLayout.
Skills: photonic layout, PIC, GDS, OptoCompiler, KLayout
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 88-day median for Optical/Photonics IC Design roles.
Optical/Photonics IC Design · Photonics
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Open roles in category
134
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Median days open
88 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$197k
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| Metric | OpenLight | All employers we track in this specialty (134 roles · 29 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 134 |
| Median days open | 0 d | 88 d (−88 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $197k |
Skills observed across this category: photonic layout, PIC, GDS, OptoCompiler, KLayout
Who's hiring in this category
- Coherent Corp · 18 open roles · median 101 d
- GlobalFoundries · 13 open roles · median 75 d
- Lightmatter · 13 open roles · median 109 d
- Marvell Technology · 10 open roles · median 46 d
- Lumentum · 9 open roles · median 91 d
- Intel Corporation · 7 open roles · median 74 d
How we counted: 134 open Optical/Photonics IC Design (Photonics) roles from 29 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 3 Nov 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.