Photonics Layout Intern
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Job descriptionAxalume developed proprietary technologies that combine silicon photonic circuits with silicon electronics to solve looming interconnect bottlenecks for servers, data centers, and high-performance computing and networking systems. As a new, fabless semiconductor startup, our technology has been critically evaluated and hailed by commercial, academic, and government institutions. We are on track to deliver electronic-photonic integrated circuit (EPIC) chipsets to serve future data center and cloud computing market segments. Our products will include silicon photonics IP, chipsets, and architecture for transforming Internet data centers to make them faster, lower cost, and more space- and energy-efficient. Our technology will deliver up to a 4.5x improvement in size (density), a 3.5x improvement in energy efficiency, and a 2x improvement in latency versus currently available networking components. Our optical switching chipsets will enable data center operators to offer improved, faster, and more secure services to their customers with even higher scalability and efficiency.We are seeking a Photonics Layout Intern to join our technical team, tasked with creating layouts for silicon photonics and photonic integrated circuits. The successful applicant will undertake the design and verification of photonic circuits and device layouts. This part-time position is ideally suited for a fourth-year undergraduate or graduate student. The candidate will be expected to work two days per week, with additional hours required as project deadlines approach.The position is in sunny San Diego.
Qualifications:Undergraduate or graduate student in Electrical Engineering, CS, Physics, or related field.Proficiency and experience in Python are MUST.Able to work independently as well as effectively as part of a team.Have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Preferred Additional QualificationsExperience with layout software (KLayout, etc.)Some knowledge of photonics.
Appropriate candidates: Please send your resume to yossi@axalume.com.
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