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Hewlett Packard Labs -- Senior Silicon Photonics Research Scientist

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Santa Barbara, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 28 May 2025
💰 $266,000/yr($115,500/yr$266,000/yr)

About the role

Hewlett Packard Labs -- Senior Silicon Photonics Research Scientist

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

The Large-Scale Integrated Photonics Laboratory at Hewlett Packard Labs has an immediate opening for a Research Scientist position with a background in Photonics. Hewlett Packard Labs is an international research organization with its headquarters and largest facility located in Milpitas, California. As the central research organization for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Hewlett Packard Labs' purpose is to deliver breakthrough technologies and technology advancements that provide a competitive advantage for the company, by investing in fundamental science and technology in areas of interest to HPE and getting the resulting technologies ready for adoption into new and existing markets.

Role and Responsibilities

The candidate will conduct novel high-impact research in the field of optical accelerators for AI/ML applications using heterogeneous integration of III-V and other materials (such as ITO) on Si and SiN.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

  • Must hold a PhD in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Materials

  • 5+ years (after completion of PhD) of hands-on experience in integrated photonics research

Preferred Skills

  • Secure government funding and work with government partner to reach DARPA-hard technical milestones

  • Project management

  • Simulation, design, and layout of photonic devices

  • Fabrication of novel proof-of-concept photonic devices in a shared university cleanroom facility (such as UCSB Nanofab or UC Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory), including process development

  • Device testing and data analysis

  • Technology transfer to foundries

  • Familiarity with non-volatile optical memories

  • Familiarity with capacitive tuning of optical devices

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 5 more}

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_04

    

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