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Photonic Design Manager

AMD· Engineering
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San Jose, CA$214.4k - $321.6kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Experienced manager leading a silicon photonics design team to deliver product-quality PICs for co-packaged optics, while establishing best practices for DFx, device design, and circuit analysis in integrated photonics.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage a design team to deliver advanced integrated silicon photonic devices
  • Closely collaborate with internal and external teams to define and drive foundry technology and supply chain requirements to support yield and product delivery
  • Establish and maintain best-practices for DFx across photonic designs
  • Drive innovation in new devices, circuits, and optical architectures within integrated photonics

Qualifications

  • Bachelor, Masters or PhD degree in Physics/Electrical Engineering
  • Strong working experience in managing photonic design teams
  • Hands-on experience in integrated photonics
  • Experience bringing a photonic product from R&D to HVM
  • Experience working with industry-standard photonic and electronic design tools (Cadence/Synopsys, Ansys FDTD/MODE, TCAD, HFSS, EMX, COMSOL, and similar tools)
  • Photonic design and analysis software development, such as in Python/Matlab or Verilog-A
  • Deep expertise in optical communication from device physics to link architecture
  • Familiarity with cross-disciplinary skillsets in high-speed design, test systems, optical control, hardware/firmware design, advanced electronic and photonic packaging, reliability, and qualification testing

Skills

Required:Integrated photonics design leadershipPhotonic device design and analysisDFx for photonics
Nice to have:Tool proficiencyProgramming for photonics

Benefits

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Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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