Senior Silicon Photonics Foundry Interface & Product Engineer

Alpine optoelectronics is a vertically integrated optical transceiver startup. This position will be responsible for managing the Silicon Photonics Foundry suppliers to enable successful Silicon wafer runs.

The position could be a junior, senior, or principal role depending on candidate’s qualification. This position has two roles, one is to manage foundry related activities, the other (optional) aspect is a product engineering role.

Responsibilities of foundry interface:

• Procure foundry PDK and other process information, and work as internal consultant to optical designers

• Design in-house electrical and photonic test patterns to monitor the foundry process variations, supplementing foundry Process Control Modules

• Being the owner/driving force for the tape-out process

• Using Statistical Process Control tools to analyze the wafer PCM data, and identify process/design weakness

• Working with foundry account manager, process integration engineer to enable on-time delivery of wafers

• Working with foundry process integration engineer to design process and recommend design split

• Monitor and drive foundry process development to enable Alpine’s next generation product, and improve existing product yield and cycle time

Responsibilities of product engineering:

• Using statistical tools to analyze product yield, identify process or design weakness to improve product yield

Qualifications and Skills:

• Ph.D (or Master's) in Electrical Engineering, Physics or a related field with educational or industrial experience in Semiconductor processing, or expert with photonics training but had extensive exposure to foundry interface

• Experience in Silicon foundry as process integration (preferred) or module engineers, or being a foundry interface person of a fabless company is desired

• Exposure to implementation of silicon photonics design, or educational background in integrated photonics is a plus.

• Solid statistical analysis capability, practical experience with analysis software such as JMP is strongly desired

• Analytical analysis skill, programming fluency in Python, Matlab, or any other commonly-used software tools

Work Location: Fremont, California