Optical Packaging & Component Engineer
About Celestial AI
As Generative AI continues to advance, the performance drivers for data center infrastructure are shifting from systems-on-chip (SOCs) to systems of chips. In the era of Accelerated Computing, data center bottlenecks are no longer limited to compute performance, but rather the system’s interconnect bandwidth, memory bandwidth, and memory capacity. Celestial AI’s Photonic Fabric™ is the next-generation interconnect technology that delivers a tenfold increase in performance and energy efficiency compared to competing solutions.
The Photonic Fabric™ is available to our customers in multiple technology offerings, including optical interface chiplets, optical interposers, and Optical Multi-chip Interconnect Bridges (OMIB). This allows customers to easily incorporate high bandwidth, low power, and low latency optical interfaces into their AI accelerators and GPUs. The technology is fully compatible with both protocol and physical layers, including standard 2.5D packaging processes. This seamless integration enables XPUs to utilize optical interconnects for both compute-to-compute and compute-to-memory fabrics, achieving bandwidths in the tens of terabits per second with nanosecond latencies.
This innovation empowers hyperscalers to enhance the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of AI processing by optimizing the XPUs required for training and inference, while significantly reducing the TCO2 impact. To bolster customer collaborations, Celestial AI is developing a Photonic Fabric ecosystem consisting of tier-1 partnerships that include custom silicon/ASIC design, system integrators, HBM memory, assembly, and packaging suppliers.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re seeking a photonics packaging engineer to drive the design, assembly and integration of fiber-optic components for our Silicon Photonics products. This person will be a key contributor to the full lifecycle of optical sub-assemblies—from concept and development to qualification and high-volume production. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise in optical components & assemblies with hands-on experience in optical design, reliability testing and cross-functional collaboration.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Education: Minimum Masters Degree in engineering or physics.
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience
- Specialized skills
- Strong experience designing and working with fiber-optic and integrated-optics components and sub-assemblies. Specific experience with multi-fiber connectors is a big plus.
- Strong understanding of standard production processes used for manufacturing micro-optics, fiber-optic interface devices and sub-assemblies.
- Experience running reliability assessment and qualification programs for optical components.
- Experience with free-space design software (Zemax, Code-V)
- Experience with mechanical design software (Solidworks or similar)
- Ability to collect and analyze large datasets (i.e. experience with JMP, DataConductor or similar data analysis tools)
- Prior experience with vendor engagements for component procurement is a plus.
- Attributes
- Self-starter
- Thrives in a highly collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Has excellent oral and written communication skills
- Creativity in problem-solving with strong attention to detail
LOCATION: Santa Clara, CA
For California Location:
As an early stage start up, we offer an extremely attractive total compensation package inclusive of competitive base salary, bonus and a generous grant of our valuable early-stage equity. The target base salary for this role is approximately $185,000.00 - $215,000.00. The base salary offered may be slightly higher or lower than the target base salary, based on the final scope as determined by the depth of the experience and skills demonstrated by candidate in the interviews.
We offer great benefits (health, vision, dental and life insurance), collaborative and continuous learning work environment, where you will get a chance to work with smart and dedicated people engaged in developing the next generation architecture for high performance computing.
Celestial AI Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
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