Photonics Layout And Tooling Engineer

Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuits Engineer

Are you a passionate engineer eager to contribute to groundbreaking research and development? Join our team and play a key role in supporting our teams in developing cutting-edge silicon photonics integrated circuits. You'll be involved in the development process, from design and fabrication to testing and analysis, for complex photonic devices and systems-on-chip. Collaborate with experienced designers on innovative projects and large-scale silicon photonics circuits. Apply now and be part of a team pushing the boundaries of photonic technology!

Design, develop, and maintain applications and scripts to automate tools and workflows within the photonic chip fabrication process.

Oversee and manage the assembly and build processes for reticles used in photonic chip manufacturing, ensuring quality and efficiency.

Understanding of semiconductor or photonic chip manufacturing processes, particularly related to reticle assembly and fabrication.

Implementing design rule checking and design for testing checks.

Experience with manufacturing automation concepts and protocols (e.g., GDS, DRC, DFT) is highly desirable.

You have:

• 2-4 years of related experience.
• Strong background in Python, Javascript, C++, web programming.
• Knowledge of optical design software or CAD tools (e.g. Lumerical suite).
• Familiarity with Klayout API and CLI.
• Familiarity with GDS file structures and feature extraction.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Proficiency in frontend technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Proficiency in backend development (e.g. REST APIs).

It would be nice if you also had:

• Familiarity with software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, including testing, debugging, and deployment.
• Statistics background would be quite helpful for implementing useful correlations, plots, charts in a web app.
• Comfortable in a remote/server/Linux environment.
• Background in parallel programming (multithreading and multiprocessing) is a plus.
• Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue) is a plus.
• Experience with SQL database systems.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

About Nokia

Join us in creating the technology that helps the world act together. We are a B2B technology innovation leader, pioneering networks that sense, think and act, putting the world's people, machines and devices in sync to create a more sustainable, productive and accessible future.

About the Business Group

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