"Researcher In Photonic Integration"

Job Summary

The role involves coordinating methods to link all stages in the design, creation, and validation of photonic integrated circuits. It focuses on leveraging semiconductor industry methods and standards to improve the trustworthiness of design kits, structuring data flows, governance, and metadata for intellectual property protection. The position adopts a data-centric approach to prototyping photonic integrated circuits across various materials, processes, and use cases.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate the creation of methods to link design, creation, and validation stages of photonic integrated circuits.
• Leverage semiconductor industry methods and standards to enhance the trustworthiness of design kits.
• Structure data flows, governance, and metadata to ensure intellectual property protection.
• Formalize multiple production platforms, processes, and designs through a data-centric approach.
• Engage with open standards and collaborate with the developer and supplier community.
• Develop and embed industry-accepted methods for data governance, security, and integrity.
• Provide guidance on best practice methods for creating designs and design kits.
• Work closely with software developers and researchers at the Photonic Integration Technology Centre (PITC).

Qualifications and Requirements

• Doctorate in semiconductor research and standards.
• Deep-tech understanding of one or more aspects of design, manufacturing, or testing for relevant semiconductor foundry technology.
• Ability to identify common data principles, parameter types, coding and encryption methods, data flows, security, and validation methods.
• Ability to co-create, explain, and illustrate complex data management methods clearly.
• Familiarity with database management, cloud infrastructure, large unstructured data-sets, and data analysis for efficient, scalable, secure, and adaptable data exchange.
• Enthusiasm and curiosity to apply unique experience in photonic integration (expertise not required).

What the Employer Offers

• Fixed-term contract for 2 years, with possibility of a 2-year extension.
• Full-time employment (30.4—38 hours per week) in a dynamic, interdisciplinary, international university setting.
• Salary between €4,728 and €6,433 per month, in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, scale 11.
• Year-end bonus of 8.3% and annual vacation pay of 8%.
• High-quality training programs, excellent technical infrastructure, on-campus children’s day care, and sports facilities.
• Partially paid parental leave, allowance for commuting, working from home, and internet costs.
• Staff Immigration Team for international candidates, including tax compensation scheme (30% facility) and moving expenses compensation.