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Optical Packaging & Components Engineer

Celestial AI
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/5/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/5/2025

About Celestial AI

As the industry strives to meet the demands of the AI workloads, bottlenecks in data transfers between processors and memory have hindered progress. The Photonic Fabric based Memory Fabric provides an optically scalable solution to the 'Memory Wall' problem, enabling tens of Terabytes of memory capacity at full HBM bandwidths with low tens of nanoseconds of latency and extremely low power. The Photonic Fabric based Compute Fabric enables Terabyte class bandwidth between compute nodes at low latency and power. Photonic Fabric delivers a transformative leap in AI system performance, ten years more advanced than existing technologies.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

  • Contribute to the development and packaging of optical components and sub-assemblies used in Silicon Photonics products. The components include laser packages and fiber arrays.
  • Be part of the team responsible for the full life-cycle support of the components, from initial design & development, procurement and full characterization to packaging and high-volume manufacturing.
  • Work with assembly partners on process development for integration of these components into the final product. Also support performance and reliability assessments of the final assemblies.
  • Own test and demonstration vehicles that implement and integrate these optical assemblies into larger systems.

QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS :

  • Specialized skills
  • Strong experience designing and working with fiber-optic and integrated-optics components and sub-assemblies.

  • Strong experience working with DFB laser diodes. A clear grasp of laser fundamentals is a big plus.
  • Strong understanding of standard packaging processes for integrating external components into Silicon photonics products and platforms.
  • Experience running reliability assessment and qualification programs for optical components.
  • Experience with free-space design software (Zemax, Code-V)
  • Ability to collect and analyze large datasets (i.e. experience with JMP, DataConductor or similar data analysis tools)
  • Prior experience with vendor engagements for component procurement is a plus.
  • Education requirements
  • Minimum MS in engineering or physics. PhD is preferred.

  • Experience requirements
  • Minimum 7 years of relevant experience

  • Attributes
  • Self-starter

  • Thrives in a highly collaborative and dynamic work environment
  • Has excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Creativity in problem-solving with strong attention to detail
  • Location : Santa Clara, CA

    Compensation :

    As an early startup, we offer an attractive total compensation package, inclusive of competitive base salary and a generous grant of our valuable early-stage equity. The target base salary for this role is approximately $180,000 - $225,000. The base salary offered may be slightly higher or lower than the target base salary, based on the final scope as determined by the depth of the experience and skills demonstrated by the candidate in the interviews.

    We offer great benefits (health, vision, dental and life insurance), collaborative and continuous learning work environment, where you will get a chance to work with smart and dedicated people engaged in developing the next generation architecture for high performance computing.

    Celestial AI Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

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