Jobs at HyperLight

Supports production and materials planning, procurement, purchase order management, supplier coordination, inventory accuracy, warehouse movements, and finance’s three-way match process. The role monitors material availability, lead times, stock levels, and supply risks; reconciles ERP transactions; resolves invoice and receipt discrepancies; maintains audit documentation; and drives continuous improvement across supply chain operations in a technical manufacturing environment.

Lead end-to-end design of photonic components and optical interfaces, including grating and edge couplers, splitters, taps, crossings, and thermo-optic phase shifters. Responsibilities include simulation, optimization, layout, tapeout, measurement, statistical robustness analysis, process collaboration, production handoff, and technical mentorship. The role requires advanced photonic integrated circuit design expertise, hands-on characterization experience, scripting skills, and cross-functional collaboration.

Coordinates procurement, purchase orders, supplier sourcing, vendor communications, expediting, receiving, inventory, shipping, and invoice discrepancy resolution. Maintains ERP records and procurement documentation, supports strategic sourcing and supplier evaluations, monitors delivery risks, and assists with domestic and international logistics. The role also identifies cost-saving opportunities and ensures ethical, accurate, and efficient procurement operations supporting photonics manufacturing.

Supports R&D project and experiment planning, workflow analysis, process improvement, and engineering automation. Develops Python-based tools, dashboards, and data-analysis solutions to reduce manual work, identify bottlenecks and anomalies, improve visibility, and accelerate development cycles. Collaborates with engineering teams to standardize workflows, create SOPs, and drive continuous improvement in a photonics and semiconductor manufacturing environment.

Designs, simulates, validates, and transfers high-speed electro-optic modulators to production. Responsibilities include RF and optical physics modeling, photonic component development, high-frequency simulations, device layout collaboration, test and calibration development, RF characterization, and cross-functional technical leadership from concept through customer engagement and manufacturing handoff.

The Product Engineer will develop high-speed TFLN photonic products, improve product performance, and collaborate with teams and vendors on R&D and testing.

Own physical verification and design enablement for HyperLight’s TFLN-on-silicon-photonics platform. Responsibilities include authoring and debugging DRC/LVS rule decks, managing verification architecture and signoff, developing and supporting a heterogeneous PDK, coordinating with foundry and customer engineering teams, supporting tapeouts, and guiding technical roadmap decisions.

Own failure-analysis cases from planning through root-cause determination and reporting. Perform microscopy, spectroscopy, FIB cross-sectioning, cleanroom sample preparation, and characterization of photonic devices and stressed parts. Manage outsourced analyses, maintain sample records, and present evidence-based findings to engineering, test, reliability, platform, and foundry teams. The role requires independent cleanroom and SEM experience, experimental rigor, technical writing, and safe handling of hazardous chemicals.

Owns operational accounting across accounts payable, accounts receivable, customer billing, fixed assets, and month-end close. Responsibilities include vendor and customer master data, invoice processing, collections, cash application, asset tracking, journal entries, account reconciliations, audit and tax support, internal controls, and accounting process improvements. The role partners with operations, engineering, sales, legal, lab, manufacturing, and IT teams in a fast-growing photonics startup.

Develop and optimize firmware for optical transceiver designs, working closely with hardware and DSP teams, ensuring performance and compliance.

The Foundry Senior Engineer will lead product volume ramp-up, manage supplier relationships, drive yield improvements, and facilitate technology transfers in semiconductor manufacturing.

Develop and execute wafer-level measurements on photonic integrated circuits, building automated test systems and providing feedback on product performance.

Develop wafer-level measurements for photonic integrated circuits, advance test systems, analyze data, and improve device performance.

Lead design, characterization, and qualification of QSFP/OSFP optical transceiver reference designs. Define and execute test plans, characterize >1.6T module performance (BER, TDECQ, OSNR, eye diagrams, sensitivity), bring up and debug modules, and collaborate with firmware and DSP teams to tune system performance and support compliance testing.

As an Application Engineer, manage Multi-Project Wafer runs, coordinate with teams, support customers through the lifecycle, and drive process improvements.