Careers at Inphenix

Inphenix’s founding team started in 2003 driven by a passion to develop integrated optics. The founding team had worked for companies as varied as Corning, Lasertron, Nortel and Lucent.

Today, Inphenix designs and manufactures lasers and light sources that are critical in state of the art applications in the medical, telecom, sensing and measurement industries.

These lasers and light sources allow doctors to see images with much higher resolution and greater depth, telecom systems to transmit data and information faster and farther and engineers to measure distances, stress and strain with greater precision and accuracy.

Inphenix does all this at its 100,000 square foot facility in beautiful Livermore, California (just 30 miles east of San Francisco) and includes a 15,000 square foot Class 10 Fab and a 20,000 square foot packaging area.
Inphenix’s Quality Management System is ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Having complete vertical control over the entire design and manufacturing process allows Inphenix to drive innovation, maintain high quality and minimize costs.

Inphenix offers medical, dental and vision plans for employees and their family with a company-paid contribution toward monthly premium costs. Saving for the future is important, so we also offer a traditional pre-tax 401k Plan for retirement saving.

While we work hard, we also take time out periodically to have some fun and share information with our employees. We celebrate employee birthdays monthly, hold quarterly all-hands meetings to share updates on company goals & objectives, and we hold an annual celebration for employees with activities and company gifts.

We look forward to you joining our growing team of employees who enjoy working in a smaller company where contributions matter and are recognized. We welcome you to apply for any of our current job openings.


  • Description :
    Inphenix has an immediate opening for an Optical Sales Application Engineer with a unique combination of technical competence and professional sales skills.
  • Responsibilities :
    • The position, located and based in our Livermore, CA offices, will promote, sell and support optical amplifiers and light sources to medical, military, telecom and sensor customers. The ideal candidate should have experience providing multi-level customer support including optical applications engineering, quotations, product presentations and on-site visits. Up to 30% travel required.
  • Requirements :
    • Minimum 5 years of high level sales and technical/engineering in optical components (lasers, light sources, active components) industry. Proven ability to cultivate and develop new markets. Must have strong consultative customer sales and technical support skills. Must be proactive and possess strong account management, presentation and negotiation skills.
  • Qualifications :
    • Technical degrees, BS or higher in Optics, Physics with current knowledge of photonics, optics and optical devices.
  • Benefits :
    • Our competitive benefits package includes health, dental and vision insurance. Come join our team and grow.
  • Requirement :
    • Following ISO9001-2015 QMS, control wafer manufacturing process in plan-do-check-action routine flow.
    • Provide leadership and collaboratively define the direction of all processes for new and existing applications.
    • Drive execution through active management of engineers, technicians and operators to meet company deliverables.
    • Understand, analyze, and resolve issues that impact development success including development processes, staffing, technical strategies, and solutions.
    • Solid understanding of technology trends to interact with management and operations to supply qualified wafer or chips to backend.
    • Meet quality and deadlines for productions and interact with R&D team & applications team to increase process efficiency and product yield.
    • Additional duties and projects as assigned.
  • Qualifications :
    • MS/PhD in Materials, or Applied physics or the related field equivalent in education and experience in a related discipline.
    • Minimum 5 years of management experience in wafer manufacture for optoelectronic device and development, specifically based on III-V compounds.
    • Excellent understanding of fundamentals of microfabrication processing steps.
    • Independent thinking and ability to work simultaneously on multiple projects.
    • Expertise in MS Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and databases.
    • Effective verbal and written communication skills, as well as excellent interpersonal skills.
    Inphenix is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability.
  • Requirement :
    • Design SiPho or InP based waveguides for integration products.
    • Using simulation software to perform simulation of electro-optic modulator and beam splitter.
    • Design the structures for waveguide and active components for wafer.
    • Design the Mask to process the wafer.
    • Evaluation of the processed wafer results and modification of the design.
    • Develop RD project successfully and transfer to products.
    • Additional duties and projects as assigned.
  • Qualifications :
    • MS or PhD in Optics or Physics with a minimum of 2 years of experience in an industrial environment.
    • Minimum 5 years of experience in optical design of opto-electronic devices.
    • Waveguide design experience using different software programs.
    • Knowledge of wafer structure design and Mask design.
    • Knowledge of testing and evaluating waveguide performance.
    • Knowledge and ability to work in clean room.
    • Experience with ISO Quality Management Systems.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
    Inphenix is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability.
  • Requirement :
    • Design and develop process technology for facets coating on optoelectronic devices.
    • Implement continual process development and improvement.
    • Establish coating line and quality control process including documentation.
    • Set standard test process to measure the AR=0.01% and HR=70%-100%.
    • Participate in new project to design special thin film coating on different substrates.
    • Collaborate with other process and equipment engineers to improve process.
    • Additional duties and projects as assigned.
  • Qualifications :
    • MS in Optics or or related field or equivalent in education and experience.
    • Minimum of 5 years experience in high vacuum thin-film evaporation technology.
    • Experience in III-IV materials.
    • Previous experience on Denton coating tool a plus.
    • Demonstrated success in design and development of coatings for semiconductor optical devices.
    • Detail oriented with excellent documentation skills.
    • Ability to provide leadership and work well in a team environment.
    • Excellent computer skills in MS Office applications.
    Inphenix is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability.