Staff Photonics Design & PDK Modeling Engineer is open at Lightmatter in Boston, MA; Mountain View, CA; Toronto, ON. The posting gives a salary of $185K - $220K. Posted on Oct 8, 2026, and still on Lightmatter’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
, you will develop our internal Process Design Kit (PDK). You will act as the architect of our component library, bridging the gap between photonics device design and system-level verification. You will develop robust compact models for active and passive components, ensuring that our simulation environment accurately predicts the behavior of our physical layouts. You will work heavily in Python, EDA tools, applying…
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