Senior Integrated Photonics Engineer - Active Devices and Circuits - Palo Alto, California, United States
$150,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 June 2026 by the employer.
About the role
PsiQuantum is seeking a Senior Integrated Photonics Engineer – Active Devices and Circuits to develop active components and circuits for fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures. The role independently owns photonic integration across Foundry Engineering and Test and Measurement teams to ensure testing and rapid analysis of high-volume photonic device data.
What you'll do
- Plan and validate high-volume tests with Foundry and Test teams. - Analyze measurement data and interpret analysis results to evaluate and improve photonic components and circuits. - Develop new test methods for active photonic components and build automated analysis methods to improve data analysis infrastructure. - Contribute to photonic tapeouts, including the design and simulation of integrated photonic devices, hands-on layout, DOE design, and technical interfacing with packaging and electronic driver designers.
What you'll need
- PhD with exposure to integrated photonics and electro-optic devices, plus 3+ years of industry experience in integrated photonics. - Deep expertise in integrated photonic devices, covering passive and active components with a focus on electro-optic phase shifters and modulators. - Experience coordinating wafer-level tests and cross-functional data analysis. - Experience in the design and modeling of photonic and electro-optic components using tools such as Ansys Lumerical, Tidy3D, COMSOL Multiphysics, or Meep. - Knowledge of modeling photonic circuits using tools such as Lumerical Interconnect or SAX. - Experience with photonic tapeouts and script-based layout tools such as GDSFactory or Kfactory, along with design for test (DFT) methodology. - Hands-on expertise in the characterization of integrated passive and active photonic components, high-speed techniques (S-parameters, Vpi measurements), and RF/photonic test equipment including oscilloscopes, signal generators, VNAs, and high-speed probes. - Proficiency in programming with Python for data analysis and visualization.
Skills: integrated photonic devices, electro-optic phase shifters, modulators, photonic tapeouts, Lumerical, SAX
This role has been open 144 days — well above the 78-day median for Optical/Photonics IC Design roles.
Optical/Photonics IC Design · Photonics
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Open roles in category
138
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Median days open
78 d
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Median salary
$197k
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| Metric | PsiQuantum | All employers we track in this specialty (138 roles · 30 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 138 |
| Median days open | 142 d | 78 d (+64 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $197k |
Skills observed across this category: integrated photonic devices, electro-optic phase shifters, modulators, photonic tapeouts, Lumerical, SAX
Who's hiring in this category
- Coherent Corp · 17 open roles · median 94 d
- GlobalFoundries · 16 open roles · median 80 d
- Lightmatter · 14 open roles · median 99 d
- Lumentum · 10 open roles · median 81 d
- Marvell Technology · 10 open roles · median 36 d
- Intel Corporation · 8 open roles · median 67 d
How we counted: 138 open Optical/Photonics IC Design (Photonics) roles from 30 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 24 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.