Flexcompute
Agentic Photonic Design Engineer
Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
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PythonC++Machine LearningLLMsAgentic AIElectrical EngineeringRF Engineering
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About the role
- PhotonForge unifies component simulation, circuit simulation, compact modeling, layout generation, PDK integration, and foundry handoff into a single platform backed by Flexcompute's GPU-accelerated Tidy3D multi-physics solvers.
- Preference may be given to candidates based in the Boston area who are open to in-person or hybrid work.
Responsibilities
- Design Agentic & AI-Native Workflows • Build agentic tools and automation that help engineers set up layout, simulation, and verification with less manual friction. • Prototype and ship AI-powered features inside PhotonForge and adjacent developer experiences (e.g., scripted flows, assistants, workflow agents).
- This is a software development role at the intersection of photonic design automation, EDA integration, and agentic AI.
- You'll extend our end-to-end platform for photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design, working in Python and navigating a C++ codebase to ship production integrations and AI-native workflows.
- Develop and maintain integrations between PhotonForge and industry-standard EDA tools for layout, DRC, LVS, and schematic-driven design.
- Build Python-based APIs and automation scripts that connect PhotonForge to existing toolchains; read, debug, and extend C++ components where integrations touch the core platform.
- Design Agentic & AI-Native Workflows
- Build agentic tools and automation that help engineers set up layout, simulation, and verification with less manual friction.
- Drive Physics & Application Workflows
- Work with end users on real-world design challenges in quantum photonics, RF photonics, co-packaged optics, or silicon photonics.
- Develop application workflows and reference designs across component simulation, circuit simulation, compact modeling, and layout.
Requirements
- Degree (MS or PhD preferred) in electrical engineering, applied physics, photonics, or a related field.
- Experience with agentic AI frameworks, LLM-based automation tools, or AI product development
Benefits
- Experience training or fine-tuning ML/AI models (reinforcement learning, surrogate modeling, physics-inspired neural networks, vision-language models, and similar approaches)
Company info
- Built by engineers from Stanford University and MIT and backed by top VC firms, we are growing fast across aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, photonics, and beyond.
- We're looking for an Agentic Photonic Design Engineer to join the PhotonForge team.
- Contributions to open-source photonics or EDA tooling What We Offer
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