Posted 4 months ago
Director, Silicon Photonics Design
Mountain View, CAOn-siteFull-time
AI Summary
Director, Silicon Photonics Design leads the design team to deliver silicon photonics products for AI data centers, automotive, and industrial automation, owns scoping, tape-outs, DFMEA, and characterization with fab and test teams.
About this role
Aeva is building the next generation of products for sensing, perception for autonomous vehicles and AI data centers. With its unique ability to measure instantaneous velocity for each pixel, long-range performance at high resolutions, while being free from LiDAR or sunlight interference, Aeva’s 4D LiDAR is built from the ground up at silicon photonics scale for mass-market applications.
Role Overview:
We are looking for an expert in photonics engineering to join our core engineering team!
What you have
Skills
Back ReflectionCharacterizationDFMEAFoundry ProcessOptical Simulation SoftwarePhotonic DevicesReliability TestingSilicon PhotonicsStray Light ManagementTape-out
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