Cambridge Internship Opportunities- Integrated Photonics Design for Future Optical I/O
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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Overview
The Future AI Infrastructure team at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) is exploring scalable, energy-efficient, and sustainable optical technologies that will shape the future of data center infrastructure. We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic PhD student to join us in spring/summer 2025 to contribute to topics related to integrated photonics design and modelling of active and passive components. You will be joining a multidisciplinary and highly collaborative team to work on creative and challenging problems aiming to push the technology boundaries and deliver transformative solutions.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
· Be enrolled in a PhD program in Photonics, Physics, Electronic Engineering, or related discipline.
· Knowledge of the physics of semiconductor photonics devices.
· Experience with integrated photonics design and simulation.
· Experience with characterization of photonics devices in an optical lab.
Other Requirements:
· Interns are expected to be physically located in Cambridge, UK.
Preferred/Additional Qualifications:
· Experience with optical simulation tools (e.g. Lumerical, RSoft, MEEP, Tidy3D, Zemax).
· Familiarity with free-space optics.
· Ability to code in Python and familiarity with git.
· Strong technical and scientific communication skills.
Responsibilities
· Design and simulation of semiconductor active and/or passive devices.
· Documenting and presenting your findings in technical documents and presentations.
