Researcher-IC Design 3 - US-CA-Santa Clara-Bldg 4-Keysi, United States
$152,470 - $254,120 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Researcher, you will invent, develop, and validate integrated photonic technologies. This role involves working on groundbreaking projects from Keysight Laboratories' dynamic research portfolio.
What you'll do
- Propose, develop, and implement innovative yet practical solutions to technically challenging problems.
- Identify new technologies and determine how they can best be harnessed for Keysight.
- Invent new measurement concepts or implementations to significantly impact Keysight’s businesses.
- Implement innovative concepts in actual hardware and software to prove feasibility.
- Work with Keysight’s businesses to transfer technology into commercial products.
What you'll need
- Ph.D. degree in Photonics, Electrical Engineering, Optics, or Physics.
- Demonstrated ability to perform innovative research in integrated photonics.
- Deep understanding of optical waveguide theory (mode solving, confinement, polarization, dispersion).
- PIC simulation, design, and layout experience (RSoft, Lumerical, Tidy3D, IPKISS, KLayout).
- Extensive hands-on PIC component characterization experience.
- Familiarity with die- or wafer-level optical and electrical probing of passive and active PIC devices.
Nice to have
- Experience with script-based PIC layout.
- Familiarity with commercial PIC foundry tape-out processes.
- Experience in RF or microwave simulation and design.
- Experience with circuit-level simulations (ADS, INTERCONNECT, VPI).
- Photonic or electronic packaging experience.
- Lab automation with Python – instrument control and data acquisition.
Skills: Photonic Integrated Circuit, PIC layout, optical waveguide theory, PIC simulation, component characterization
This role has been open 5 days — well below the 67-day median for Optical/Photonics IC Design roles.
Optical/Photonics IC Design · Photonics
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Open roles in category
133
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Median days open
67 d
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Median salary
$195k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Keysight Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (133 roles · 33 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 133 |
| Median days open | 31 d | 67 d (−36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Skills observed across this category: Photonic Integrated Circuit, PIC layout, optical waveguide theory, PIC simulation, component characterization
Who's hiring in this category
- Lightmatter · 18 open roles · median 81 d
- GlobalFoundries · 16 open roles · median 67 d
- Coherent Corp · 15 open roles · median 75 d
- Lumentum · 9 open roles · median 62 d
- Keysight Technologies (this employer) · 7 open roles · median 31 d
- Marvell Technology · 7 open roles · median 151 d
How we counted: 133 open Optical/Photonics IC Design (Photonics) roles from 33 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 Oct 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.