Photonic Design Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Singapore.

📋 Description

• Design and maintain integrations between PhotonForge and EDA tools for layout, DRC, LVS, and schematic-driven design.

• Facilitate round-trip workflows among EDA environments, PhotonForge, and Tidy3D simulation.

• Create Python APIs and automation scripts that link PhotonForge to GDSII, OASIS, Touchstone S-parameters, SPICE netlists, and Verilog-A toolchains.

• Analyze, debug, and enhance C++ components where integrations interact with the core platform.

• Develop agentic tools and automation for layout, simulation, and verification processes.

• Prototype and deploy AI-driven features in PhotonForge and associated developer experiences.

• Collaborate with end users on design challenges in quantum photonics, RF photonics, co-packaged optics, or silicon photonics.

• Create application workflows and reference designs that cover component simulation, circuit simulation, compact modeling, and layout.

• Utilize GPU-accelerated Tidy3D multi-physics solvers to establish fabrication-aware simulation pipelines.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in production-quality Python development.

• Proficient in reading, debugging, and contributing to C++ codebases.

• Practical experience with EDA and PIC flows.

• Familiarity with industry-standard EDA platforms like Cadence Virtuoso, Siemens Calibre, or KLayout.

• Knowledge of GDSII and OASIS, DRC, LVS, PDKs, schematic-driven design, and compact models such as Verilog-A.

• A degree in electrical engineering, applied physics, photonics, or a related discipline; MS or PhD preferred.

• Understanding of Maxwell's equations, waveguide theory, and semiconductor device physics.

• Active engagement with AI tools and a drive to integrate agentic automation into engineering products.

• Experience in training or fine-tuning ML/AI models is a plus.

• Domain expertise in quantum photonics, RF/microwave photonics, co-packaged optics, or optical interconnects for AI data centers is advantageous.

• Experience in building connectors or plugins for EDA platforms is beneficial.

• Background in compact model generation, S-parameter extraction, or circuit-level photonic simulation is a plus.

• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks, LLM-based automation tools, or AI product development is advantageous.

• Contributions to open-source photonics or EDA tooling are a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Full remote work flexibility.

• Supportive, thoughtful, and intelligent colleagues.

• An opportunity to be at the forefront of AI and photonics, two of the most rapidly evolving fields in technology.

• The chance to influence how a generation of engineers learns to utilize AI-driven simulation.

• A collaborative, technically proficient team that appreciates curiosity and initiative.