About us
At Wave Photonics, we are building a platform to enable and accelerate the development, mass production and adoption of integrated photonics technologies. Integrated photonics will be crucial in enabling a host of applications ranging from energy-efficient communications, wearable healthcare sensors, rapid diagnostic tools, optical tensor processors, on-chip LiDAR, quantum computing and communication, and many more. We believe that many obstacles in developing these technologies can be removed using a combination of simulation, statistical modelling and optimisation techniques.
Founded in 2021, we have backing from great investors in Silicon Valley, the UK, and the EU, and are contributing to multiple projects funded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. We were also successful in winning a prestigious European Innovation Council Accelerator project to develop solutions for frontier applications of integrated photonics.
We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic PIC Design Engineer to join our team and contribute to our mission in accelerating the growth and adoption of integrated photonics technologies.

This is an exciting opportunity design, simulate, tape-out and characterise photonic components and circuit designs at Wave Photonics. In this role, you will be responsible for design and optimisation of active PIC building blocks, helping to advance Wave Photonics’ component design libraires and modelling capability. You will play a crucial role in taking designs from concept to validation, informing our roadmaps and product design.
The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in integrated photonics circuit design, including modulation and detection. You will work across the full lifecycle: concept and modelling, electromagnetic and electro-optic/RF co-design, layout and verification, tapeout, and lab characterisation. Your work will directly shape Wave Photonics’ component libraries and design flows, and you’ll collaborate closely within the team to support our mission to unlock the potential of integrated photonics.
You will be a core member of our small but growing team, contributing to key deliverables and milestones that drive our product development. You will be immersed in the fast-paced environment of a start-up that has ambitions to change the integrated photonics industry. We value enthusiastic people who bring a willingness to learn new things and challenge existing ideas.