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Support Researcher

    • Markham, Ontario
    • Edmonton, Alberta
    +1 more
  • acpl8

Job description

Our team has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Support Researcher.

Responsibilities:

  • Carry out research on next-generation emerging technologies related to photonics, survey the latest trends on a regular basis, and understand the technology evolution roadmap.
  • Assist in technical path analysis, evaluation, and providing insight.
  • Identify the key technology challenges and study disrupting architectures, technologies, components, and algorithms to address those challenges.
  • Simulate, analyze, and design different photonics-based systems for compute, interconnect, and optical communications
  • Proactively work to achieve challenging goals and create IP by innovative designs and architectures
  • Produce documentation and technical reviews

Job requirements

What you'll bring to the team:

  • PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics or relevant discipline with 3+ years of research experience or MSc degree with 6+ years of experience.
  • Proficiency in photonic simulation tools such as Lumerical, COMSOL, or Optiwave.
  • Excellent programming skills (Python/C).
  • Motivated self-starter with excellent communication skills in written and spoken English.
  • Good teamwork spirit and adaptability.
  • Thrive in a dynamic, innovative, research and prototyping oriented environment.
  • General knowledge of machine learning techniques and/or optical communications for DCN.

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