Q.ANT
Senior Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Characterization Engineer(m/w/x)
Full-timeOn-siteManagement
Stuttgart
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Q.Q.ANT
Photonics Design Engineer – PIC & Tape-Out(m/w/x)
Stuttgart
Full-timeOn-siteExperienced
AI/ML
Nejo AI Summary
End-to-end tape-outs for photonic processing solutions, managing circuit coordination and layout integration. Integrated photonics design and foundry interfacing experience required. Direct leadership access, international team collaboration.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Photonics, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field with at least 3 years of industry experience
- PhD with industry-relevant projects and engineering tasks, plus at least 1 year of post-PhD experience
- Integrated photonics design and large-scale PIC layout experience
- Coordinating multi-project tape-outs (DRC, documentation, release)
- Interfacing with foundries on process constraints
- Photonic simulation (FDTD, eigenmode expansion, circuit-level) proficiency
- PIC layout tooling proficiency
- Solid device physics understanding
- PDK development experience (plus)
- Strong Python skills for automation, verification, and design flow improvement
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Ownership of delivery
- Driving risks to resolution
Tasks
- Own and drive end-to-end tape-outs
- Lead circuit coordination for tape-outs
- Manage layout integration for tape-outs
- Obtain DRC sign-off
- Prepare documentation for release
- Ensure release readiness across projects
- Act as primary interface to foundries
- Liaise with external fabrication partners
- Align designs to process constraints
- Resolve design rule conflicts
- Ensure correct fabrication execution
- Contribute to PDK development
- Validate PDKs
- Improve design workflow through automation
- Implement layout reuse
- Enhance review practices
- Mentor junior engineers on photonic layout
- Mentor junior engineers on verification
- Mentor junior engineers on tape-out best practices
- Spread a culture of rigor
- Promote ownership across the PIC team
- Feed design insights into technology roadmap
- Propose new photonic components
- Suggest optimization strategies
Work Experience
- 3 years
Education
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Native
- German – Basic
Tools & Technologies
- Python
- FDTD
- eigenmode expansion
- circuit-level simulation
- PIC layout tooling
Benefits
Other Benefits
- Technical excellence
- Pragmatic problem-solving
Informal Culture
- Open communication
- International team collaboration
Startup Environment
- Direct leadership access
- Innovative work environment
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Q.Q.ANT
Photonics Design Engineer – PIC & Tape-Out(m/w/x)
Stuttgart
Full-timeOn-siteExperienced
AI/ML
Nejo AI Summary
End-to-end tape-outs for photonic processing solutions, managing circuit coordination and layout integration. Integrated photonics design and foundry interfacing experience required. Direct leadership access, international team collaboration.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Photonics, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field with at least 3 years of industry experience
- PhD with industry-relevant projects and engineering tasks, plus at least 1 year of post-PhD experience
- Integrated photonics design and large-scale PIC layout experience
- Coordinating multi-project tape-outs (DRC, documentation, release)
- Interfacing with foundries on process constraints
- Photonic simulation (FDTD, eigenmode expansion, circuit-level) proficiency
- PIC layout tooling proficiency
- Solid device physics understanding
- PDK development experience (plus)
- Strong Python skills for automation, verification, and design flow improvement
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Ownership of delivery
- Driving risks to resolution
Tasks
- Own and drive end-to-end tape-outs
- Lead circuit coordination for tape-outs
- Manage layout integration for tape-outs
- Obtain DRC sign-off
- Prepare documentation for release
- Ensure release readiness across projects
- Act as primary interface to foundries
- Liaise with external fabrication partners
- Align designs to process constraints
- Resolve design rule conflicts
- Ensure correct fabrication execution
- Contribute to PDK development
- Validate PDKs
- Improve design workflow through automation
- Implement layout reuse
- Enhance review practices
- Mentor junior engineers on photonic layout
- Mentor junior engineers on verification
- Mentor junior engineers on tape-out best practices
- Spread a culture of rigor
- Promote ownership across the PIC team
- Feed design insights into technology roadmap
- Propose new photonic components
- Suggest optimization strategies
Work Experience
- 3 years
Education
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Native
- German – Basic
Tools & Technologies
- Python
- FDTD
- eigenmode expansion
- circuit-level simulation
- PIC layout tooling
Benefits
Other Benefits
- Technical excellence
- Pragmatic problem-solving
Informal Culture
- Open communication
- International team collaboration
Startup Environment
- Direct leadership access
- Innovative work environment
Find the original job posting in its most current version here. Nejo automatically captured this job from the website of Q.ANT and processed the information on Nejo with the help of AI for you. Despite careful analysis, some information may be incomplete or inaccurate. Please always verify all details in the original posting! Content and copyrights of the original posting belong to the advertising company.
About the Company
Q.ANT
Industry
IT
Description
The company is a photonic technology scale-up that advances and industrializes photonic and quantum technologies in computing and sensing.
Not a perfect match?
- Q.ANT
Senior Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Characterization Engineer(m/w/x)
Full-timeOn-siteManagementStuttgart - Q.ANT
Senior Production Engineer – Optics & System Integration(m/w/x)
Full-timeOn-siteSeniorStuttgart - Q.ANT
Senior Engineer for Photonic Module Characterization(m/w/x)
Full-timeOn-siteManagementStuttgart - Q.ANT
Senior Production Engineer – System Integration & Test(m/w/x)
Full-timeOn-siteSeniorStuttgart - Q.ANT
Material Engineer(m/w/x)
Full-timeOn-siteExperiencedStuttgart