Photonic Design Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Create and sustain 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.

• Develop Python APIs and automation scripts that link PhotonForge with existing toolchains.

• Collaborate with GDSII and OASIS layouts, Touchstone S-parameters, SPICE netlists, and Verilog-A models.

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

• Create agentic tools and automation for layout, simulation, and verification workflows.

• Prototype and deliver AI-enhanced features, scripted flows, assistants, and workflow agents.

• Partner with end users to address design challenges in quantum photonics, RF photonics, co-packaged optics, and silicon photonics.

• Develop application workflows and reference designs spanning component simulation, circuit simulation, compact modeling, and layout.

• Leverage GPU-accelerated Tidy3D multi-physics solvers to create fabrication-aware simulation pipelines.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven production-quality Python development experience.

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

• Hands-on knowledge of EDA and PIC workflows.

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

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

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

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

• Active engagement with AI tools and a desire to incorporate 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 datacenters is a plus.

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

• 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 a plus.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Full remote flexibility.

• Friendly, thoughtful, and intelligent coworkers.

• A front-row seat at the convergence of AI and photonics, two of the most rapidly evolving fields in technology.

• An opportunity to influence how an entire generation of engineers learns to utilize AI-driven simulation.

• A collaborative, technically advanced team that values curiosity and initiative.