Descripción
Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology? Lightium, a leading-edge photonics startup, is looking for a skilled Photonics System Architect to spearhead the system-level design and requirements management for internal and external customers in Lightium’s proprietary thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the next generation of photonics solutions while collaborating with leading transceiver manufacturers and optical interconnect hardware companies. Position Summary As a Photonics System Architect, you will be responsible for defining and implementing system-level architectures together with our customers and for Lightium’s reference designs from concept to schematic as well as layout in Lightium’s proprietary TFLN-based technology. You will have the opportunity to apply state-of-the-art requirements-tracking methodologies and tools to ensure success for internal and external customers. Your contributions will be pivotal to ensuring a first-time-right design of complex, high-speed, electro-optical photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Key Responsibilities System Concepts and Architecture: Design optical on-chip communication systems based on internal and external customer requirements in the space of coherent communication in both C-band and O-band (coherent lite), intensity modulation direct detection (IMDD), quantum, radio over fiber (RoF), and passive optical networking (PON) systems. Setting up system-level specifications and derive block-level specifications. You will derive the system architectures of those systems and drive their schematic design and layout in state-of-the-art EDA tools. You will run system- and circuit-level simulations and optimize parameters to meet the target specifications while ensuring manufacturability and testability. Relationship management: Act as the key interface with external parties such as drivers / TIA suppliers, pack