Job Description
Job Title Computational Photonics Engineer Job Description THE OPPORTUNITY You will build and own the modelling-and-learning capability at the heart of LumiAIres: the simulation, encoding–decoding, and machine-learning layer that makes light compute. This is a durable company function: the digital twins, encoding schemes, and readout models you build become reusable assets across every product generation and customer programme. Your immediate focus is our current flagship programme, LUMINA, which leads the high-fidelity digital twin and encoding–decoding scheme, turning the twin into the customer-facing pre-evaluation environment that lets integrators assess our technology before silicon is in hand. Our photonic core behaves as a physical computing medium. Your job is to model how light computes inside it and to train the models that read the answer out. You will work closely with the Integrated Photonics Lead on physical validity, with our academic partners on encoding–decoding, with the Applied Photonics Engineer on validating predictions against measured silicon, and with the Full-Stack Software Engineer on productising the twin. You are the bridge between physics and learning, modelling how light computes inside our photonic core, and training the models that read the answer out. As we scale, this role can grow into ownership of LumiAIres' modelling and machine-learning function and the team behind it. CONTRACT & PROGRESSION CONTRACT TYPE: 18-Month Fixed Term Contract LOCATION: Glasgow, Scotland (Hybrid) SALARY: TBC per annum REPORTS TO: CTO (currently the CEO) POTENTIAL FOR PERMANENT ROLE: Yes — Glasgow or Paris (determined within the first 12 months) START DATE: To be agreed This role is offered initially as an 18-month Fixed Term Contract based in Glasgow. Given the portable nature of the modelling work, the permanent position offers location flexibility as the company scales. WHY LUMIAIRES Work at the frontier of photonic AI, technology with the potential to
