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Silicon Photonics Intern
Length of Spring Internship is approximately 3 months beginning in March 2025
Length of Spring Internship is approximately 3 months beginning in March 2025
- Location: San Jose, CA (onsite required during normal business hours, Monday to Friday). The company is not compensating for relocation costs for this role.
- In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. The Company is not offering visa sponsorship for this role.
As a photonics intern, you will push the envelope of bandwidth density, energy efficiency, and manufacturability of our silicon photonics optical I/O platform, removing the bottlenecks limiting next-generation AI and advanced compute architectures. You will work in a fast paced, dynamic startup culture, dedicated to the principle that we will succeed and grow by constantly reinventing ourselves.
Essential Functions:
- Analyze test data to drive improvements in device performance and product yield
- Build data infrastructure: extend custom code base for layout, test analysis, and automated checking
- Design high-performance integrated photonic components needed for an aggressive optical I/O product roadmap
- System-level testing to validate new photonics features in custom opto-electronic hardware.
Basic Qualifications:
- Proficiency with Python, experience writing well-structured code and developing a code base as part of a team
- Deep understanding of photonic devices: couplers, photodetectors, electro-optic modulators, micro-ring resonators, gratings
- Experience with simulation and design tools for passive and active optical devices (e.g., FDTD, charge transport)
- Experience testing passive and active integrated optical components
- Enthusiasm to learn new things and take on challenging goals
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with statistical analysis of test data, DOE methods
- Familiarity with optical transceiver principles, transmission formats, and industry trends
- Experience with RF systems and measurements
- Experience with optical link testing, e.g. bit-error rate
- Familiar with packaging of electro-optical fiber-optic modules
- Familiar with databases and automating data pipelines
- Self-starting and able to work well independently and collaboratively
- Proficiency in English written and verbal communication skills
Pay Range is $39 to $62/hr
Note to Recruiters:
Principals only. We are not accepting resumes from recruiters for this position. Remuneration for recruiting activities is only applicable subject to a signed and executed agreement between the parties. Please don’t send candidates to Ayar Labs, and please don't contact our managers.
About Ayar Labs:
At Ayar Labs we’re about to revolutionize computing by moving data with light. We’re unleashing processing power for artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cloud and telecommunications by removing the bottlenecks created by today’s electrical I/O -- making it possible to continue scaling computing system performance. Ayar Labs is the first to deliver an optical I/O solution that combines in-package optical I/O chiplets and multi-wavelength remote light sources to replace traditional electrical I/O. This silicon photonics-based I/O solution enables chips to communicate with each other from millimeters to kilometers, to deliver orders of magnitude improvements in latency, bandwidth density, and power consumption.
With our strong collaborations with industry leaders and government, our deep ties to MIT and UC Berkeley, and our commitment to hiring the best engineers in photonics and electronics, joining our team gives you the opportunity to collaborate with renowned experts on challenging, paradigm-shifting work.
We are passionate about delivering in-package optical I/O at scale, leveraging the strength of our patent portfolio and our team of leading interdisciplinary experts. We believe that deep cross-collaboration between teams facilitated by honest, open debate is the best way to drive innovation and achieve big wins. Join our team and experience the possibilities.
Resources
- Executives from Intel and GLOBALFOUNDRIES share their thoughts on Ayar Labs and the promise of in-package optical I/O (video)
- Ayar Labs in the News and Recent announcements
- LinkedIn and Twitter
Ayar Labs is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is strongly committed to all policies which will afford equal opportunity employment to all qualified persons without regard to age, national origin, race, ethnicity, creed, gender, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Salary : $39 - $62
