Coherent Optical Systems Internship
About Taara:
Born at X, Google's Moonshot Factory, Taara is on a mission to connect billions of people lacking abundant and affordable internet today by pioneering the way we use light to deliver faster, cheaper, more reliable connectivity. We are bringing groundbreaking wireless optical communication and photonics chip technologies to the world to bridge the digital divide.
Joining Taara allows you to work as part of a multidisciplinary team of experts in optics, software, and hardware, all collaborating to solve the hardest connectivity challenges on a global scale. If you want to tackle problems that matter and build tools with real-world impact, we would love to meet you.
About the Role:
At Taara, as a Coherent Optical Systems Intern, you will work on receiver synchronization for next-generation wireless optical communication (WOC) links. Your work spans the lab bench and physical-layer simulation. What such a receiver can achieve is bounded by real lasers, modulators, and analog electronics. You will evaluate components against system requirements, assemble the benchtop experiments that test them, and work toward stable closed-loop operation. In parallel you will extend the simulation that predicts this behavior, using each to check the other.
