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title: 'MEMS Process Engineer at nEye.ai'
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# MEMS Process Engineer at nEye.ai

- **Company:** nEye.ai
- **Location:** Emeryville, CA
- **Compensation:** $125k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/neye-systems-inc./05016bb0-bc72-4698-85fc-05685cbedd50

## Job description

About Us:

nEye.ai, a well-funded optical switch startup, is poised to revolutionize the future of data centers. nEye’s MEMS-based silicon photonics optical circuit switches (OCS) eliminate critical bottlenecks in AI processing by enabling direct optical connections among thousands of GPUs and memory units. The company's SuperSwitch is an ultra-low power consumption, high radix, compact chip-scale design, offering hyperscale data centers enhanced performance, efficiency, and scalability.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a highly experienced and proactive MEMS Process Engineer to be a key player in defining and improving our Si photonics MEMS technology, which is at the heart of our optical switches. You will be an active participant in our regular company process meetings and help frame our wafer fabrication technologies and strategies.

You will be successful if you thrive in a fast-paced environment, can participate in multiple work streams simultaneously, and are passionate about solving problems and learning. The position is based in Berkeley/Emeryville and includes working in both our Emeryville location and in the Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory on the UC Berkeley campus.

Due to the exposure to the MEMS/Photonics/Failure Analysis team, you can expect to broaden and deepen your technical knowledge. This position offers the opportunity to work with foundries and advance into an integration/foundry engineering role over time.

## Key Responsibilities

Wafer Design and Fabrication Methodologies:

- Collaborating with other team members to understand chip design and product system-level requirements and translating those learnings into specific device designs and fabrication methodologies.
- Developing and improving fabrication methodologies and exploring appropriate materials to advance our optical switch technology.
- Partnering with external vendors and technology providers to develop fabrication methods and procedures.
- Collaborating with external foundries to establish and refine fabrication processes.

Wafer Processing:

- Running wafers through our lab and performing critical analysis on process steps.
- Designing and implementing process short loops.
- Advise and assist other wafer fab team members to collaboratively identify and solve fabrication-related issues.

Essential Skills

- Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Applied Physics, Chemistry, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience with Si photonics or MEMS technologies
- 3+ years hands-on experience with microfabrication methods and techniques.
- Experience with failure analysis, metrology, and process development.
- Experience with mask design, thin film deposition and characterization, and wet/dry etching.
- Experience with developing and scaling processes from inception to prototyping and production.

## Preferred Skills

- Experience designing and executing detailed experimental protocols.
- Excellent interpersonal communication (written and oral), and leadership skills.
- Strong communication skills for managing foundry and vendor interactions.
- Demonstrated proficiency with layout tools (e.g., KLayout), accompanied by introductory exposure to Process/MEMS/photonics simulation platforms (e.g., COMSOL, Ansys, Lumerical, Coventor).

## Perks and Benefits

- Opportunity to join a small well-funded start-up company, doing pioneering work in optical switches
- Competitive salary and equity package, including early-stage company stock options
- 401k
- Full healthcare coverage: medical, dental, and vision
- Fitness center access

nEye is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About nEye.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: nEye.ai develops ultra-low-power MEMS-based silicon photonic optical circuit switches (OCS) that eliminate connectivity bottlenecks in AI data centers, enabling direct optical links among thousands of GPUs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C funding stage)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Ashish Vengsarkar (CEO), Ming Wu (Chief Scientist & Co-Founder), Tae Joon Seok (CTO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Semiconductor manufacturing (silicon photonics) / AI data center infrastructure
- **Target customers**: Hyperscale data centers, cloud providers, AI/ML infrastructure operators (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission**: To transform data center networks through innovative optical circuit switching technology, solving the most challenging problems in AI infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **[SuperSwitch](https://www.neye.ai)**: A chip-scale, high-radix optical circuit switch leveraging MEMS-based silicon photonics. It enables direct optical connections among GPUs and memory units, dramatically reducing power consumption and latency compared to electrical switches. Type: Hardware (silicon photonic switch).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$152.5M** across four rounds (Series A, B, C, and a corporate round) as of April 2026
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sutter Hill Ventures (led Series C, $80M, April 2026), CapitalG (led Series B, $58M, May 2025), TEDA (led Series A, $14.5M, September 2023)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+164.7% YoY** to 36 employees; 12 active job postings (up 300% YoY); filed 12 patents in photonics, fiber optics, and optical devices; key hires from Google, AWS, Ayar Labs, and Intel.

## Competitive Advantages
- **MEMS + Silicon Photonics Integration**: Combines micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) with silicon photonics on a single chip, enabling ultra-low power, high-radix switching in a compact form factor.
- **Founding Team Depth**: Led by industry veterans with decades of experience at Bell Labs, UC Berkeley, Google, and successful optical startups (Photuris, Nistica). Chief Scientist Ming C. Wu is a renowned professor at UC Berkeley.
- **Patented Technology**: 12 granted/pending patents covering lidar, photonic switch arrays, and optical devices.
- **Hyperscaler Relevance**: Directly addresses the critical bottleneck in AI cluster networking, a problem actively being tackled by major cloud providers.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Engineering & Operations**: Heavily hiring across MEMS design, photonics, silicon photonics layout, test systems, and lab operations to accelerate product development and deployment.
- **Hyperscale Deployment**: Targeting volume production and integration into the world’s largest AI data centers, leveraging team members’ prior experience at Google and AWS.
- **Product Maturation**: Moving from prototype to commercial-grade SuperSwitch, with emphasis on reliability, yield, and cost efficiency.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Tackle one of the hardest problems in AI infrastructure – optical connectivity at scale.
- **On-Site Culture**: Roles are based in Santa Clara, CA (with an additional Berkeley office), fostering close collaboration among a tight-knit, highly technical team.
- **Impact & Ownership**: Small team (~36 people) means engineers have broad responsibility and direct influence on product direction.
- **Veteran Leadership**: Work alongside former Google, Bell Labs, and successful startup leaders who have raised over $100M and achieved multiple exits.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth and significant venture backing signal a company in an aggressive scaling phase, offering career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn – nEye Systems Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/neye-systems)
2. [CB Insights – nEye Systems Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/neye-systems)
3. [nEye.ai About Us](https://www.neye.ai/about-us)
4. [nEye.ai Join Us / Careers](https://www.neye.ai/join-us)
5. [Lever Jobs – nEye Systems Openings](https://jobs.lever.co/neye-systems-inc)

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