Silicon Photonics PIC Lead

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At Nokia you will have a positive impact on people's lives and help build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and accessible world.

Be part of a culture built on an inclusive way of working where we are open to your ideas, you are empowered to take risks and are encouraged to be fearless in bringing your authentic self to work.

The team you'll be a part of

Network Infrastructure: The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia's Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.

As a Silicon Photonics PIC Lead you will engage in the development of advanced silicon photonics integrated circuits and architectures. You will take responsibility for the design of complex photonic devices and interconnects, as well as systems-on-chip, from design through fabrication, testing and analysis. As a member of our silicon photonics design team, you'll be working alongside other experienced and multidisciplinary teams and agile silicon photonics designers with strong records of delivering innovative photonic device designs and large-scale silicon photonics circuits.

What you will learn and contribute to

As part of the team:

You will lead the development of complex photonic integrated circuits and systems for next-generation coherent transceiver technologies. You will assist in the development new design approaches and innovate on both device-level design and system-level optimization working with cross-functional teams and collaborating to deliver co-designed and co-optimized photonics chips. As the PIC lead, you will work with the PIC team and other cross-functional teams to provide the performance, power, and area estimates of the next-generation optical front-end solutions.

The PIC Lead will be responsible for the integration of the optical engines and will interface with mixed signal, substrate, packaging, and simulation teams to ensure system requirements aremet for co-designed and co-optimized photonics chips and modules. This may also involve:

• Managing the IC design, fabrication and assembly track, closely interacting with the involved teams.
• Develop new design approaches and innovate on both device-level design and system-level optimization. Interact with fab partners.
• Leading experimental evaluation of the integrated photonic devices/systems solutions (i.e., assessing feasibility/risk of integrating hybrid devices).
• Managing current SiPh PDK components and supporting the design of active and passive photonic device components for next-generation development for hybrid-integration, III-V, and L-band programs.
• Contribute to test data analysis of optical front-end devices and modules to correlate and design with measurements.

Your skills and experience

You have:

• 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.

It would be nice if you also had:

• 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.
• Solid numerical and physics-related programming skills.

What we offer

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

Nokia's employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.