Photonic System Design Engineer

• Defines and drives photonics components development and understands and influences the architecture of photonics integrated circuits.
• Architects, designs, simulates, and develops photonics components such as lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, passives, highspeed detectors, and modulators, and/or IIIV solutions on silicon platform.
• Performs tolerance analysis and optimizes components for performance, power, area, and reliability.
• Drives overall test chip execution and coordination including chip design, layout, tapeout, test, and validation.
• Analyzes test data from characterizations, identifies performance gaps, and drives improvement paths.
• Develops and implements photonics components and system modeling methodologies and proposes and implements new test methodologies.
• Conducts research in novel photonics components and technologies, defines next generation components architectures, and initiates and drives IP development programs.

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates. Experience listed below would be obtained through a combination of your degree, research and or relevant previous job and or internship experiences.

Minimum Qualifications:

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a similar discipline with focus on Silicon Photonics, optical component, module, and transmission system with 6+ years of industry experience listed below OR a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a similar discipline with focus on Silicon Photonics, optical component, module, and transmission system with 4+ years of industry experience listed below.

• Experience in system link modeling and design methodology and tools for high speed (50GBaud to 200GBaud) optical communication transceivers and CPO/OCI engine products, both experimental/theoretical performance analysis, and optical components and system optimizations.
• Experience in architecting, designing and defining new systems and components for high-speed silicon photonics commercial optical communication products.
• Experience with modeling both direct detect higher order modulation format systems, advanced modulation formats, noncoherent and coherent optical systems (ie, modulators, detectors, lasers).
• Experience with optical/electrical simulation platforms Simulink, Matlab, ADS, Lumerical, HFSS, VPI, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience modeling in transmitter, receiver, analog and Serdes interactions, Si and III-V photonic devices, subsystems in high-speed optical communication systems.
• Experience with co-simulating high-speed electronics with optical components, DSP modeling, coding/decoding techniques, OSNR/BER/FEC error correction, CMOS IC's (driver, TIA's), and advanced modulation formats.
• Experience in designing high speed optoelectronic and electronic components.
• Experience in component, carrier, RF package, driver-modulator optimization, high-speed interconnect digital and analog system, DSP and FEC.
• Exposure in optical system-, subsystem-, and component-level characterization.
• Exposure to optical packaging concepts 2D, 2.5D, 3D and optical test.
• Experience in designing high speed optoelectronic and electronic components.

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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