Fiber Assembly Process Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Fiber Assembly Process Engineer. Location: Milpitas, California, USA

Responsibilities:

• Develop advanced assembly instrumentation for high-performance and high-throughput fiber splicing.
• Investigate and identify the root causes of fiber splice loss and variability.
• Develop and deploy advanced fiber processing equipment in collaboration with industrial partners.
• Design advanced measurement methods to validate fiber and fiber splice losses at datacenter scale;
• Use optical simulation tools to model the behavior and performance of fiber-to-fiber interfaces across advanced fiber designs.
• Evaluate modal properties, dispersion, coupling efficiency, loss mechanisms, and other optical fiber characteristics through simulation and experimental validation.
• Collaborate with optical packaging and assembly validation teams to develop reliable testing methods for fiber interface performance and reliability.
• Support optical assembly manufacturing and semiconductor process development for scalable quantum computing systems.

Qualifications:

• Master's or PhD in Photonics, Optics, Physics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in fiber optics, optical system development, and fiber assembly.
• Strong understanding of optical fibers, fiber splicing, and measurement equipment;
• Familiarity with opto-mechanical packaging and optical assembly equipment.
• Proficiency in Python and JMP.
• Experience with mechanical and/or optical instrumentation automation and control.

Preferred:

• Experience with back-end semiconductor packaging.
• Experience working with advanced optical simulation tools.
• Knowledge of optical packaging validation and reliability testing.

Benefits and Compensation:

• U.S. base salary: $110,000 to $160,000 USD per year.
• Bay Area salary: $150,000 to $177,000 USD per year.
• Equity participation for eligible full-time employees.
• Comprehensive employee benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing systems.

Other Information:

• PsiQuantum develops silicon photonic quantum computers designed to achieve million-qubit, fault-tolerant systems.
• The company collaborates with leading organizations including GlobalFoundries, Lockheed Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Mitsubishi Chemical.
• Government-backed projects are underway to build utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia, and Chicago, Illinois.
• PsiQuantum is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds;
• The company will only communicate using official PsiQuantum email addresses and will never request banking information during the hiring process.
• Unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies are not accepted.
• Applicants should include the word "purple" in their cover letter as instructed in the application.