PIC Design Engineer
Originally posted July 31, 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a PIC Design Engineer, you will contribute to and own aspects of wafer-scale photonic interposer PIC design.
What you'll do
- Own and contribute to aspects of the wafer-scale photonic interposer PIC design.
- Address engineering tradeoffs between component density and manufacturability yields.
- Solve design challenges associated with process variation across large-scale wafers.
What you'll need
- Experience with both passive and active PIC design components.
- Understanding of the fundamental physics governing photonic devices beyond empirical simulation.
- Experience with large device count PIC tapeouts.
- Deep understanding of optical coupling in and out of the PIC, including achieving low losses under realistic manufacturing and alignment conditions.
- Understanding of the physical manufacturing process behind PICs.
Nice to have
- Experience with high speed optical communications PICs.
- Experience designing with PIC material platforms other than silicon photonics (such as InP, TFLN, SiN, polymers, or glass).
- Experience and knowledge of active gain chip integration, including integrated lasers and SOAs.
- Experience with large area PICs.
- Understanding of sources of process variation and statistical process control.
Skills: PIC, photonic integrated circuit, optical coupling, tapeouts, silicon photonics
More semiconductor jobs: Photonics jobs
First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 66-day median for Optical/Photonics IC Design roles.
Optical/Photonics IC Design · Photonics
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Open roles in category
160
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Median days since first seen
66 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$191k
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| Metric | Volantis Semiconductor | All employers we track in this specialty (160 roles · 33 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 160 |
| Median days since first seen | 0 d | 66 d (+66 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $191k |
Skills observed across this category: PIC, photonic integrated circuit, optical coupling, tapeouts, silicon photonics
Who's hiring in this category
- Coherent Corp · 17 open roles · median 115 d
- Lightmatter · 14 open roles · median 93 d
- GlobalFoundries · 12 open roles · median 86 d
- Ayar Labs · 11 open roles · median 7 d
- Marvell Technology · 10 open roles · median 43 d
- Lumentum · 9 open roles · median 101 d
How we counted: 160 open Optical/Photonics IC Design (Photonics) roles from 33 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.