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Senior Photonic Device Designer

Job in Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California, 95053, USA
Listing for: NVIDIA Corporation
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-12
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineer, Hardware Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 168000 USD Yearly USD 168000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JR2009585

NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 fueled the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing. NVIDIA is a “learning machine” that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that are hard to solve, that only we can address, and that matter to the world.

This is our life’s work, to amplify human creativity and intelligence. Make the choice and join us today!

We are now looking for a Senior Photonic Device Designer. We are part of the global circuits team at NVIDIA that design the state-of-the-art GPUs for all applications such as supercomputers, gaming consoles and self driving cars. Come join us in our mission to Engineer the next generation of best-in-class products. Our teams focus is on architecture and design of CMOS and Silicon-Photonics high-speed chip interfaces (NVLink, IEEE, PCIE, USB, OIF) and other complex photonic functions.

Strong hands-on experience in the lab with silicon evaluation, debugging, characterization, and bring up.
** What You'll Be Doing:
*** Work on the development of novel integrated photonic devices for high-speed optical interconnect and sensing applications.
* Conduct chip layout circuit design, circuit checking, and device evaluation and characterization.
* Perform prototype construction and checkout.
* Develop measurement methodology and apparatus to test and characterize the fabricated devices and perform experiments to demonstrate their ability in various potential applications.  Respond to customer/client requests or events as they occur.
* If you have a strong ability to learn and explore new technologies and able to demonstrate good analysis and analytical skills, this is the ideal position for you.
** What We Need To See:
*** MSEE (or equivalent experience)/PhD preferred
* 4+ years of experience in silicon based opto-electronics technologies including
* Silicon photonics device design, fabrication, and characterization.
* High-speed optical modulators, lasers and detectors
* Electrical and optical testing and statistical data analysis.
* Guided wave and free space optics including optical alignment and fiber-to-waveguide coupling.
* Lab experience with high-speed test equipment, such as AWG, DCA, VNA, BERT.
* The candidate must be highly experienced with simulation tools such as Ansys Lumerical, ZeMax, proficient in CAD tools such as Cadence, MATLAB, Python and Verilog-A scripting.
* Familiarity with modern CMOS fabrication processes and concept is strongly preferred.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 168,000 USD - 264,500 USD for Level 4, and 196,000 USD - 310,500 USD for Level 5.You will also be eligible for equity and .Applications for this job will be accepted at least until December 14, 2025.NVIDIA

is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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