About this role
Responsibilities
- Define and own the integrated photonics roadmap. Assess competing material platforms and architectures against system-level requirements, and make clear, well-reasoned downselect decisions.
- Lead PIC development programs from specification through design, fabrication, test, packaging, and integration into our quantum computers.
- Build and lead an in-house photonics team, and establish its design, simulation, test, and integration capabilities.
- Serve as technical lead for external partnerships with foundries, materials suppliers, and photonics companies: scope development efforts, write and negotiate specifications, review designs, and hold partners to performance and schedule.
- Scout and evaluate emerging photonic technologies that could open new approaches to qubit control.
- Generate intellectual property and communicate results internally and, as appropriate, in publications and presentations.
- Capable of lifting and moving objects that weigh up to 25 pounds.
Experience & Education
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optical Sciences, Applied Physics, or a related field.
- 8+ years of post-PhD experience in integrated photonics in industry or a leading research group, including leading PIC programs from concept to fabricated, tested devices.
- Demonstrated experience building and leading technical teams.
Required Qualifications
- Recognized expertise in integrated photonics, with command of the full landscape: material platforms, foundry ecosystems, and the current state of the art in modulators, nonlinear devices, and large-scale photonic circuits.
- Hands-on track record designing, taping out, and characterizing PICs through external foundries or internal fabs.
- Deep understanding of high-performance electro-optic modulation and/or integrated nonlinear optics.
- Proven ability to manage external development partners, including writing specifications and driving multi-party programs to schedule.
- Sound technical judgment: comfortable making high-stakes platform decisions with incomplete information, and defending them with data.
- Ability to communicate clearly with physicists, engineers, executives, and external partners.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with visible or near-infrared integrated photonics.
- Experience across multiple material platforms, such as thin-film electro-optic materials, silicon nitride, and heterogeneous integration.
- Experience with large-scale photonic circuits and with interfacing PICs to free-space optics.
- Experience with high-speed RF drive, photonic packaging, and fiber and free-space coupling.
- Established relationships across photonics foundries, academic groups, and startups.
- Experience in a fast-paced hardware development or startup environment.