Photonics Engineer
Job Title/Code: Photonics Engineer (Nano-PTE)
Position Type: Full-Time
Company: DiCon Fiberoptics, Inc.
Location: Richmond, CA
Compensation: $85,000 ~ $120,000 / Year
❖ Company Overview:
DiCon Fiberoptics, Inc. is a well-established photonics hardware and solutions technology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the past four decades, DiCon has developed numerous patented technology platforms for optical communications and cemented itself as an industry leader.
Utilizing these core in-house technology platforms, DiCon develops and manufactures only world-class products, and markets these products to commercial, industrial, and end-user customers. The company has strong vertically integrated capabilities, allowing it to respond rapidly to changing
customer needs and emerging new market opportunities such as AI data centers, quantum networking, and space communications.
We currently have an immediate opening for the Photonics Engineer position to work in the nano-optics team to develop the next generation optical components. The primary job function for this position involves failure analysis of photonics chips with optical measurement and simulation.
❖ Qualifications & Requirements
- New graduate or experienced, preferably with a B.S. or more advanced degree in optics/photonics, physics, EE, materials science, chemistry, chemical engineering, ME, nano-science, or inter-disciplinary fields.
- Direct experience with fiber-optics measurement and/or has experience working with optical bench-top equipment.
- Familiar with Python scripting and simulation tools, such as FDTD-Lumerical, COMSOL, transfer-matrix method, etc.
- Familiar with derivation of analytical expression and fitting with measurement data.
- Device fabrication experience in a clean room environment is a plus.
- Research experience in nano-technology, especially nano-structures for optical applications is a plus.
- Will need to work with process engineers to troubleshoot and improve the device performance.
- Comfortable with a fast-moving high-tech industrial environment.
- Hands on work in optical testing lab are required.