Scientist II, Silicon Photonics
Your Impact at LILA
Lila Sciences is seeking a Scientist II, Silicon Photonics to join the Materials Science team within the Autonomous Science Platform. This role builds the measurement, analysis, and data-quality foundation for novel electro-optic materials and the photonic devices built from them, turning material and device performance into trusted data for scientists and for the models that learn from it.
You will own characterization across the full stack, from thin-film material properties through passive photonic structures to electro-optic modulators, at both chip and wafer level. That means defining what to measure, designing and standing up the test setups, and establishing the calibration and quality-control procedures that make results comparable across material variants, process conditions, and design iterations. This is hands-on work: you will assemble and debug optical and optoelectronic measurement setups, not just operate them.
The role sits between materials, device design, fabrication, and test. You will interpret measured data in the context of material properties, process variation, and device physics, feed findings back into material and design decisions, and partner with our simulation and ML teams. You will also define measurement requirements for the automation team and prototype methods well enough to scale into reliable infrastructure.
