# Silicon Photonics Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,100.00 to $198,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Silicon One team at Cisco creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally.

As a Silicon Photonics Engineer, you will have full-lifecycle responsibility for PIC product design, from simulation to layout using Cadence Virtuoso to final GDS tapeout to post-Fab validation.

Key responsibilities:

- Design and own small test-chips within a year or two to facilitate next-generation products

- Work closely with EIC & module team to co-design highly optimized Opto-Electronic chipsets satisfying system-level specifications

- Handle multiple PIC tapeouts per year, translating into parallel processing several PIC designs and tracking them through design-tapeout-Fab-validation cycle

- Encourage spending time on new ideas and innovation in-line with continuous optimization of all products

- Fill patents to maintain Cisco's leadership position in a highly competitive market

Requirements:

- Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience, or PhD + 0 years of related experience

- Prior experience in Silicon Photonics circuit modeling, layouts/tapeouts, and fabrication process, including testing and validation

- Prior experience in photonic device layouts both passive and active (GDS generation using appropriate EDA tools like Cadence, Virtuoso etc.)

- Prior experience with lab measurements, data analysis and automation using tools like Matlab, Labview, Python

Preferred qualifications:

- Prior experience working with cross-functional engineering teams

- Prior experience with OE/RF simulation (S-parameters, Co-simulation with electronic driver/TIA, HFSS)

- Prior experience working with silicon photonics foundries

- Prior experience using AI tools for data analysis, testing, and validation

Benefits:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Silicon Photonics
- Cadence Virtuoso
- Matlab
- Labview
- Python
- GDS generation

### Nice to have
- OE/RF simulation
- HFSS
- AI tools
- silicon photonics foundries

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