Volantis Semiconductor, Inc.

Laser Design Engineer

Remote - SF / Boston / Austin

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Seniority: Mid level
Country: US
Work mode: Remote-friendly
First seen by hirly: 3 Oct 2026

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Location: Remote - SF / Boston / Austin

Employment: Full-time

Level: —

Design our custom lasers and their integration with the wafer-scale interposer.

You will contribute to our first- and second-generation custom laser designs, and to their integration with the wafer-scale interposer.

Responsibilities

Owning aspects of qualification and ramp up of VCSEL array product line from design and epitaxy through fabrication, testing and packaging at contract manufacturers.
Working with epitaxial wafer vendors and contract manufacturers to ensure epitaxy and mask/fabrication designs can be successfully implemented and repeatably produced.
Working with the electronics, packaging and wafer-scale interposer teams to improve the VCSEL design for the integrated interposer product, balancing density, yield and manufacturability tradeoffs in a novel architecture.
Working with laser team to set technical direction/road map based on integrated interposer needs.
Driving design reviews of VCSEL with other teams

Requirements

Deep understanding of VCSEL epitaxy design, fabrication design and process, validation, and qualification
Experience taping out VCSEL epitaxy and mask/fabrication processes
Hands-on experience contributing to an industry-first laser design
Ability to work independently as well as in cross-functional teams including electronics, packaging

Nice to have

Experience using outsourced contract manufacturers for large volume production of VCSELs
Experience with high-density VCSEL arrays and VCSEL polarization stabilization
High speed direct modulation laser diode design/test experience
Understanding of sources of process variation and statistical process control for yield improvement
Laser packaging and/or reliability experience

Original posting on Volantis Semiconductor, Inc.'s site ↗

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