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# Principal Electrical Engineer at Voyant Photonics

- **Company:** Voyant Photonics
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/voyant-photonics/3f4fafb4-260c-4172-9f37-0244c7fdd145

## Job description

About Us: Voyant Photonics, is transforming machine perception with a new class of LiDAR devices that are compact enough to fit in the palm of your hand and powerful enough to measure range, velocity, and reflectivity with unparalleled accuracy. By leveraging cutting-edge silicon photonic chips smaller than your fingertip, we deliver sensors that are not only revolutionary in performance but also affordable enough to integrate into any system. Our technology disrupts the status quo of bulky, expensive, and power-hungry LiDAR systems, making high-precision sensing accessible for widespread adoption in robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation, and beyond. With Voyant, the next generation of machines can see, understand, and navigate the world like never before. Discover how we’re redefining what’s possible by making real products out of cutting edge research in silicon photonics.

The opportunity: As a growing company, we’re looking for engineers who want to move fast, solve hard problems, and leave their mark on a foundational technology. You’ll join a mission-driven team at the intersection of product design, silicon photonics and machine perception. Location: NYC

Key Responsibilities:

- Architect and develop analog and mixed-signal electronics for compact, high-performance hardware modules, using TIAs, ADCs, precision current sources, and power supplies like LDOs and switching regulators.
- Own designs from concept through production, including schematic capture, component selection, and PCB layout in collaboration with layout engineers.
- Ensure signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI/EMC compliance across high-speed and noise-sensitive interfaces.
- Define and execute bring-up, characterization, and validation plans (e.g., DVT, EVT), with a focus on robustness, repeatability, and manufacturability.
- Analyze design trade-offs (performance, cost, power, integration complexity) in the context of tightly constrained product architectures.
- Partner closely with system architects, mechanical engineers, and firmware teams to ensure seamless integration and system-level reliability.

Qualifications:

- Experience: 7+ years in hands-on hardware development, with end-to-end ownership of systems that shipped at scale.
- Execution: Demonstrated ability to deliver high-reliability designs under tight constraints on power, cost, form factor, and schedule.
- Technical Strengths:
- Deep expertise in low-noise analog and high-speed digital design.
- Strong grounding in signal/power integrity, high-density interconnect, and EMI mitigation techniques.
- Familiarity with high-volume design-for-manufacturing (DFM), reliability testing, and yield optimization.
- Tools & Skills:
- Proficient in schematic capture and simulation (e.g., SPICE), with working knowledge of Altium or similar.
- Experience with SI/PI simulation tools (e.g., HyperLynx, SiWave) and measurement tools (GHz-range scopes, VNAs, spectrum analyzers).
- Familiarity with board-level integration of FPGAs, microcontrollers, and custom analog ASICs.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with high-speed ADCs, custom analog IC interfaces, or photonics-related electronics.
- Knowledge of flex and rigid-flex PCB design.
- Familiarity with Verilog-AMS or mixed-signal modeling.
- Exposure to Verilog HDL or FPGA development.
- Experience designing for high-reliability or harsh environments (e.g., automotive, aerospace).

Benefits Package:

- Competitive base salary and a meaningful equity package.
- Comprehensive health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision).
- Unlimited PTO and paid company holidays.
- Team events and company meetups.

## Equal Opportunity Employer

Voyant Photonics is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, citizenship, veteran or military status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, caregiver status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Voyant Photonics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Voyant Photonics develops solid-state, chip-scale FMCW LiDAR sensors using silicon photonics for machine perception in autonomous vehicles, robotics, and smart infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Dr. Steven Miller (CTO), Dr. Chris Phare (CSO), Carlos Bhola (Executive Chairman)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Autonomous sensing / LiDAR / Silicon photonics
- **Target Customers**: B2B; OEMs and system integrators in automotive, robotics, industrial automation, and smart infrastructure
- **Mission**: To enable intelligent machines to operate in harmony with their environment by providing the spatial foundation that AI systems need to perceive the world.

## Products & Services
- **Helium™**: A fully solid-state, medium-range 4D LiDAR with no moving parts. Uses a 2D array of surface emitters for on-chip beam steering. Key specs: 75m range, 0.3cm precision, 60° x 90° FOV, ultra-compact 3x4x4 cm form factor. Ideal for mobile robotics.
- **Carbon 30**: A compact, all-in-one coherent LiDAR for mid-range, high-precision sensing. Combines single-axis on-chip beam steering with a low-speed moving mirror. Available in 32, 64, and 128-line variants. Range: 75m (standard) or 150m (extended), 30° V x 120° H FOV. Up to 977,000 points/sec.
- **Carbon 60**: A wide-FOV coherent LiDAR optimized for dense near-field perception (60° V x 90° H). Designed for short-range, wide-angle coverage in applications like person tracking and mobile robotics.

All products are software-configurable, operate at 1550nm (eye-safe), and provide instantaneous velocity data per point — immune to sunlight interference and other LiDAR sensors.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $41.6M across 5 rounds
- **Notable Investors**: UP Partners (led Series A), LDV Capital, Contour Venture Partners, and others
- **Growth Signals**: 150% YoY headcount growth (to ~52 employees); has hired talent from Tesla, Luminar, Aeva, Microsoft, and MIT Media Lab; new CEO Clément Nouvel (former CTO of Valeo’s LiDAR division) brought in to scale the company; presence expanding to France and Japan

## Competitive Advantages
- **True solid-state design**: Their monostatic architecture integrates FMCW LiDAR, beam steering, and coherent detection on a single silicon photonics die — no moving parts, no MEMS, no multi-chip assemblies.
- **Foundry-compatible manufacturing**: Uses datacom-grade photonic foundries for wafer-scale fabrication, enabling cost and performance scaling to millions of units — manufactured like processors, not like optics.
- **Instantaneous 4D data**: Each measurement returns both range and velocity simultaneously, with no compute overhead, reducing perception pipeline complexity.
- **Software-configurable**: Sensors can dynamically trade off range, resolution, FOV, and precision under real-time application control — one sensor for many use cases.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling production and reducing per-unit cost to enable mass-market adoption in automotive and robotics
- Expanding into smart infrastructure (bridge monitoring, power lines, industrial facilities) and IoT metrology
- Building out commercial sales team and global presence (VP Sales from Ouster/Aeva, Sales Director for Europe, presence in Japan)
- Replacing mechanical and MEMS-based LiDAR with fully solid-state solutions across all market segments

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting-edge technology**: Work on the frontier of silicon photonics, FMCW LiDAR, and coherent detection — a true hardware + perception + AI challenge
- **High-growth trajectory**: 150% headcount growth in the last year, with strong funding and commercial traction — significant career growth potential
- **Small, focused team**: ~52 employees with a high density of PhDs and experienced engineers from Cornell, Columbia, MIT, and top LiDAR companies (Luminar, Aeva, Valeo) — learn from world-class peers
- **Real-world impact**: Your work directly enables autonomous vehicles, robots, and smart infrastructure to perceive the world safely and reliably
- **Culture**: Described as "laser-focused" and balancing innovation with execution; the team includes veterans from Tesla, Microsoft, and leading Tier 1 automotive suppliers
- **Work model**: Based in NYC with a collaborative in-person culture; roles span photonics, electrical engineering, software, systems, and sales
- **Career opportunities**: Actively hiring across technical and commercial roles — "We’re growing fast and always looking for passionate, talented people"

## Sources
1. [voyantphotonics.com](https://voyantphotonics.com/)
2. [voyantphotonics.com/about](https://voyantphotonics.com/about/)
3. [voyantphotonics.com/products](https://voyantphotonics.com/products/)
4. [voyantphotonics.com/careers](https://voyantphotonics.com/careers/)
5. [linkedin.com/company/voyantphotonics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/voyantphotonics)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/voyant-photonics](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/voyant-photonics)

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