What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electronic Photonic Design Automation (EPDA / EDA) Engineer position at Analog Photonics?
Company Overview
Analog Photonics is a Boston based high technology company with expertise in advanced, large-scale and high-performance silicon photonics, integrated circuits, and derivative products. We specialize in the development of photonic integrated circuits targeted for LiDAR and Optical Communications products. We engage with customers worldwide in growing markets such as automotive and data-center interconnects. Join our team if you are:
• Looking for an attractive salary, bonus, and benefits
• Eager to bring cutting-edge and proprietary technology to market
• Interested in closely interfacing with a talented and knowledgeable team of engineers
• Enthusiastic about seeing rapid progress from your contributions
• Able to work in an office and lab complex in Downtown Boston
Job Description
We are looking to hire an Electronic Photonic Design Automation (EPDA / EDA) Engineer to support Analog Photonics’ growing silicon photonic Process Design Kit (PDK) offerings. In this position, the successful applicant will oversee the development and release of new PDK versions and expand EPDA software tool support of silicon photonic PDKs. The ideal candidate has experience with silicon photonic EPDA or EDA tools and chip design flows. If you are talented, enjoy working in a startup environment, and passionate about team development and product creation, we would like to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
• Maintain and grow existing PDK offerings including parameterized cells (PCells), compact models, layout versus schematic (LVS), design rules checking (DRC)
• Work with silicon photonic design and test engineers to update component library components and models
• Development of flows that automate and simplify silicon photonic design for PDK users
• Expand support of PDKs to new EPDA tools
• Development and support of PDK component libraries for new silicon photonic processes and applications
• Collaborate with silicon photonic foundry partners to improve PDK
• Develop the next generation of EPDA tools for silicon photonic design
Qualifications and Preferred Experience
• Master's or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (EE or ECE or ECSE), Computer Engineer (CE), Computer Science (CS), or related engineering discipline
• 2 years related industry experience
• Programming experience with Matlab, Python, C/C or other programming languages
• Familiarized with both schematic driven and layout driven design workflow
• Experience with industry standard EPDA/EDA tools such as Cadence, Synopsys, Ansys Lumerical, and Calibre for use in device and circuit simulation, layout, and DRC verification
• Knowledge of silicon photonic integrated circuit fabrication and design flows
• Understanding of layout design rules, layout physical design, device physics and semiconductor processing
