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PIC Optical Component Development Engineer

Infinera

Infinera

Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Posted on Dec 20, 2024

CA Pay Range (Annual):

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At Infinera, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. Your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for equity grants, discretionary bonuses, or commission payments. The amount of these incentives is based on the terms of the Company’s incentive plans, the Company’s financial performance, and/or individual employee job performance.

Infinera also offers paid leave, medical,

dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), life, and disability insurance and to

eligible employees.

“This position requires direct or indirect access to certain confidential information, hardware, software, technology, or technical information (referred to here as “Export-Controlled Information”) controlled under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All personnel in this position must be eligible to or be able to obtain authorization from the appropriate agency to access applicable Export-Controlled Information. The U.S. Department of Commerce currently requires a foreign person with a most recent citizenship or permanent residency of Sudan, Ukraine, or a country currently designated in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2 (Supplement No. 1 to Part 740, Title 15) to have an export control license to access our Export-Controlled Information, unless they meet certain exemptions provided under U.S. export control laws and regulations. The list of applicable countries in Country Group D:1, E:1 or E:2 may be updated by the U.S. government from time to time. The current processing time for an export control license is approximately 4 to 6 months.

Your employment or engagement with Infinera shall be contingent on verifying your eligibility or requirement for obtaining a necessary license and/or authorization from the appropriate agency. You will be required to provide certain information for export control compliance assessment purposes, and your information will be reviewed by Infinera's hiring and export control teams to ensure compliance with the U.S. export control laws and regulations. Infinera will collect necessary documents (such as proof of citizenship etc.) to assess license/authorization requirements if you are offered and accept the position.”

Infinera is the global supplier of innovative networking solutions. Our customers include the leading service providers, data center operators, internet content providers (ICPs), cable operators, enterprises, and government agencies worldwide, including 9 of the top 10 Tier 1 service providers and 6 of the top 7 ICPs. We design, develop and deliver hardware and software for fiber-based connectivity solutions that span access, aggregation, metro, long haul, and submarine network. Our industry-leading, trendsetting edge-to-core solutions provide the foundation for many of the world’s largest and most demanding networks that generate billions in service revenue for our customers.

Job Summary


The broad job responsibilities include hands-on work in designing of integrated photonic components, implementing the process through the fab, and testing the resulting circuits to verify performance. Infinera is committed to developing PICs needed for current and future needs, including high data rates, intra datacenter, metro, long-haul and subsea. The successful candidate will work within the PIC design and engineering team and engage in design, simulation, data analysis, and lead product development from reliable design concepts, performance verification, and optimization and transfer to manufacturing. Experience in the required key areas is listed below.


Job Requirements

  • Significant experience in optical components design for high performance is required, and experience developing InP devices, such as lasers, SOAs, high-speed modulators, and detectors, is highly desired.
  • Experience in optical and electronic modeling and simulation software to design electro-optical devices, lithographic mask specifications, and pattern generation is required.
  • InP opto-electronic fabrication process development hands-on experience is required and material characterization and epitaxy knowledge and experience are highly desired.
  • Ability to work with a large body of data and the necessary statistical analysis tools, and the ability to present the data and ideas to a diverse audience.
  • The Job will require frequent collaborative interaction with fab, epitaxy, test and reliability engineering, packaging, product engineering, and system engineering groups.


Experience and Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or a related discipline with emphasis in optical communications and high-speed optical components. We seek candidates with significant experience developing active optical devices, preferably with applicable industrial experience. We will consider candidates with M.S. in the above fields if they have at least 5 years of applicable experience.

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Infinera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Infinera complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.