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About the role
Lila Sciences is seeking a Scientist II, Silicon Photonics to join the Materials Science team within the Autonomous Science Platform. This role builds the measurement, analysis, and data-quality foundation for novel electro-optic materials and the photonic devices built from them, turning material and device performance into trusted data for scientists and for the models that learn from it.
What they're looking for
- • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Materials Science, or a related field
- • Hands-on experience characterizing photonic materials and devices at chip and wafer level, spanning thin-film and material-level measurements through passive and active device testing
- • Experience measuring thin-film optical and electro-optic properties, including extraction of electro-optic coefficients
- • Experience testing passive photonic structures such as waveguides, resonators, and couplers, including loss and dispersion characterization
- • Experience with electro-optic modulators or related active integrated photonic devices. • Experience building and debugging optical and optoelectronic measurement setups, including alignment, calibration, and noise control
- • Experience developing measurement methods where no standard protocol exists, including defending measurement validity and data quality
More about this role
Lila Sciences is seeking a Scientist II, Silicon Photonics to join the Materials Science team within the Autonomous Science Platform. This role builds the measurement, analysis, and data-quality foundation for novel electro-optic materials and the photonic devices built from them, turning material and device performance into trusted data for scientists and for the models that learn from it.
You will own characterization across the full stack, from thin-film material properties through passive photonic structures to electro-optic modulators, at both chip and wafer level. That means defining what to measure, designing and standing up the test setups, and establishing the calibration and quality-control procedures that make results comparable across material variants, process conditions, and design iterations. This is hands-on work: you will assemble and debug optical and optoelectronic measurement setups, not just operate them.
The role sits between materials, device design, fabrication, and test. You will interpret measured data in the context of material properties, process variation, and device physics, feed findings back into material and design decisions, and partner with our...
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