Job Description

LOOKING FOR A PHOTONICS ENGINEER Do you have experience in photonics and want to experience living in the beautiful city of Montreal, in a high-potential, high-tech company? Do you want the opportunity to have significant impact on the world by contributing to the future of and leading the design of autonomous vehicles? If so, this opportunity is for you!
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY Workland presents an amazing career opportunity for its client, currently seeking a Photonics Engineer with a passion for finding cost-effective solutions, digital signal processing, and FPGA programming. The client is a fast-growing Canadian company based in the beautiful city of Montreal, whose technology portfolio focuses on photonic integrated sensors. The technology involves developing simple, compact, low-cost, low-power consuming, and high-performance sensors for applications in navigation systems such as Inertial Measurement Units (gyroscopes and accelerometers).
WHY SHOULD THIS OPPORTUNITY INTEREST YOU?

• Opportunity to change the world through high-impact, next-generation technology.
• Develop modern & innovative technologies in the exciting field of autonomous navigation.
• Grow your skills and knowledge in state-of-the-art technology, with unlimited potential.
• Ability to contribute and have a major impact on the company\'s future.
• Be a part of the founding team of a company who will experience exponential growth in the next years.
• Exciting and challenging opportunities for continuous professional growth.
• Competitive compensation and benefits program.
• Start-up, high-tech and down to earth work environment.
• Offices located in beautiful old Montreal.
• Join a well financed start-up who will assist you through the immigration process, if you are from abroad.

POSITION SUMMARY: Reporting to the Director of Engineering, the Photonics Engineer will participate in the development of integrated photonics-based motion sensors adapted for, for example, self-driving vehicles and autonomous drones. The Photonics Engineer will be an experimentalist with hands-on experience in the assembly and characterization of integrated optical devices, as well as deep knowledge of micro-optical sensors especially in the field of micro-optical resonators.
YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES WILL BE:

• Design and characterize Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) building blocks (Splitter, circulator, filters, resonators, etc.).
• Conduct loss characterization of optical waveguides.
• Work closely with the hardware electronics team.
• Create, build, debug optical test setup for sensor characterization, perform electro-optical experiments.
• Conduct data analysis and reporting.
• Participate in all aspects of the design of the opto-electronics devices.
• Procure optical, electro-optical and electronics parts based on performance needs.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS POSITION ARE:

• Minimum B.Sc. in electrical Engineering, electro-photonics, physics (optics) or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years of industry working experience in optoelectronics devices testing and characterization and/or Integrated-Photonics system design and test.
• Extensive hands-on experience in photonics building blocks characterization such as ring resonator, Fabry-Perot, and optical waveguide loss measurement as well as signal processing of electro-optical devices.
• Hands-on experience working with optical components such as waveguides, splitters, circulators, isolators, phase modulators, Mach-Zehnder, Ring resonators, lasers, detectors, and software.
• Tangible technical achievements, which might include relevant work experience, patents, successful projects or publications.
• Deep knowledge in Integrated-Photonics based sensors preferably in the field of micro-optical resonators.
• Deep knowledge of working with tunable lasers, OSA, Oscilloscopes, polarizers, VOAs, detectors, etc.
• Dynamic project management skills, adaptive to fast-paced, creative start-up working environment.
• Experience with software OptiSpice, Lumerical Interconnect, Cadence Allegro/OrCad, Vivado, Matlab/Simulink, Spyder python, GCC/G++, Git, Altium Designer or Labview is an asset.
• Experience in cleanroom, motion sensors and MEMS is an asset.
• Bilingualism in French and English is an asset.

IDEAL CANDIDATE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Creative
• Meticulous and detailed oriented
• Leader with strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and organized
• Collaborative and a team player

*** ABOUT WORKLAND Workland is proud to have been mandated to assist this company in the recruitment process for this job opportunity. Workland\'s mission is to solve recruitment and job search challenges through the combination of technology and human creativity. The ultimate goal is to accelerate and facilitate the match between talented individuals and the right organizations, through an approach that supports diversity, equity & inclusion in the workplace.