High-Speed Photonic Device Engineer

Join the silicon photonics team at imec’s R&D headquarters located in the heart of Europe and help revolutionizing next-generation optical interconnects based on silicon.

Description

Job description
As a High-Speed Photonic Device Engineer, you will be responsible for: 

Generating, developing and demonstrating novel device concepts to push the state of the art in high-speed (>25Gb/s) silicon photonics for data- and telecommunication applications.
Modeling and designing high-speed optical devices in imec’s Integrated Silicon Photonics Platform (iSiPP).
Defining test plans and methodology, performing high-speed photonic device characterization and capturing learning to support design and process improvements.
Driving project execution by interacting with photonic and 3-D integration engineers, RF circuit designers, and test & reliability engineers.
Reporting to internal stakeholders, including peers across team/group/unit and to external stakeholders including imec partners and customers.
Reporting to the scientific community at conferences or in scientific journals.
Staying on top of the state of the art within your competence domain and benchmark imec’s solutions.

Nr of positions available : 1

Research Fields

Engineering - Electrical engineering

Career Stage

Early stage researcher or 0-4 yrs (Post graduate) 

Research Profiles

First Stage Researcher (R1) 

Benefits

We offer
We offer you a challenging position in an advanced high-tech environment, in an international and multicultural team. This is your opportunity to contribute to technologies that will have an impact on tomorrow’s society.
We offer you an attractive salary added with competitive extra-legal benefits such as an interesting life insurance, hospitalization insurance, long term disability insurance and a pension plan. Imec takes on the full cost of these insurances. On top of that you receive meal vouchers for each working day. Imec offers various training possibilities and social services such as a company restaurant, ironing service, the possibility of day care nearby, holiday daycare and discounts in different sport clubs and shops. To decrease our ecological footprint 100% of the transport by train is reimbursed by imec.

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Interested?
Apply online at www.imec.be/jobs


Requirements

Required Languages
LanguageENGLISH
Language LevelExcellent
Required Education Level
Degree FieldEngineering
DegreePhD or equivalent

Application website

https://jobs.imec.be/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_applwizard?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9RTRBODhDOEU3NkExMUNGMTk5OEQwMDUwNTZBQzQ0QTg%3d&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-ep-themeroot=%2fsap%2fpublic%2fbc%2fur%2firis

Application Deadline

02/05/2015

Envisaged Job Starting Date

02/05/2015