Silicon Photonics Design Engineer
Pubblicato il 22-09-2026 - Nokia in Ferrara
Overview
As a Silicon Photonics Design Engineer, you will help develop silicon photonics IC-based products from design to fabrication and testing. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver innovative photonic devices and large-scale circuits, shaping photonics-enabled connectivity. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration to meet system-level requirements and drive design validation.
This is an opportunity to impact advanced photonic integration within a leading, inclusive tech company focused on secure, scalable connectivity.
Retribuzione / Benefits
- Flexible and hybrid working schemes
- Maternity and Paternity Leave (min. 90 days)
- Life insurance
- Well-being programs
- NERGs participation
- Career & skills development
Responsabilità
- Own Tx and/or Rx PIC designs and communicate performance requirements to cross-functional teams
- Evaluate optical link budgets, RFEO performance, and power consumption to verify against requirements
- Define test requirements and collaborate with test teams to develop comprehensive test plans
- Generate PIC performance documents to track performance across R&D; and production variants
- Evaluate new design approaches and drive device-level and system-level optimization
- Interface with mixed-signal IC, substrate, packaging, and simulation teams to ensure co-design/co-optimization of photonics chips
Requisiti fondamentali
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or Applied Physics
- Hands-on experience in silicon photonic device design, characterization, and modeling
- Proficient with optical and RF simulation tools (Lumerical, HFSS, ADS) and photonic circuit design
- Proficient in Python or C/C++ with solid understanding of optics and electromagnetics
- 2+ years of experience in silicon photonics design, testing, and characterization
- collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
- strong communication of requirements to engineers
- problem solving and critical thinking
- silicon photonics design
- device-level modeling and characterization
- optical and RF simulation