Nokia · 1 week ago
Sr. PIC Development Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expNokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. As a Silicon Photonics Development Engineer, you will engage in the development of advanced silicon photonics integrated circuits-based products, taking responsibility for the design of complex photonic devices and systems-on-chip.
ElectronicsEnterprise SoftwareInternet of ThingsMobile DevicesTelecommunications
Responsibilities
Owning Tx and Rx PIC designs and communicating expected performance and PIC requirements to cross-functional teams
Evaluate optical link budgets, RF performance and power consumption and verify performance compared to requirements
Defining test requirements and collaborate with test team to prepare test plans that provide coverage and address requirements
Defining PIC reliability requirements and collaborate with reliability team to generate reliability plans
Owning and generating PIC performance documents to track performance across R&D and production design variants
Managing the overall system PIC fabrication and assembly track, closely interacting with the involved teams
Interact with fabrication partners and product engineering team
Help Evaluate new design approaches and innovate on both device-level design and system-level optimization
Contributing expertise to experimental evaluation of the integrated photonic devices/systems solutions (i.e., assessing feasibility/risk of integrating hybrid devices)
Leading task force of designers to support the design of active photonic device components for next-generation development for hybrid-integration, III-V, and L-band programs
Qualification
Required
Ph.D. in electrical engineering / physics / applied physics / similar quantitative fields and 5+ years experience working in relevant fields
Experience working on and modelling complex photonics circuits and systems
Experience with designing or characterizing silicon photonic or other integrated optical/optoelectronic devices or circuits; experience developing components for optical I/O, including edge or fiber couplers, grating couplers, etc
Solid knowledge of object-oriented programming, as well as skills in Python or C/C++
Good understanding of general concepts in physics, especially in optics and electromagnetics
Understanding of general concepts in fiber optics and integrated optics
Preferred
Experience with high-frequency (RF) design and modeling
Experience with epitaxial growth and design, and hybrid integration
Experience with controls theory and implementation
Experience in TCAD modeling
Proficiency with optics design tools, such as Lumerical
Experience in photonic integrated circuit design, scattering and transfer matrix approaches, and layout generation
Benefits
Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
Health and dental benefits
Short-term disability, and long-term disability
Life insurance, and AD&D – Company paid 2x base pay
Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition Assistance Plan
Adoption assistance
Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program
Company
Nokia
Nokia manufactures mobile devices, network infrastructure, and location-based technology for businesses. It is a sub-organization of Enscryb.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.45BKey Investors
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2025-12-16Post Ipo Debt· $511.84M
2025-10-28Post Ipo Equity· $1B
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President and CEO
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Chief of Staff to the CEO
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