Intern

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a publicly funded research institute, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is home to a diverse community of leading scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and researchers from across the globe, transforming problems and roadblocks into pioneering research and technology prototypes that help move society ahead.

Job Role:

We are seeking a highly motivated intern to join the Integrated Photonics & Light Sensing division within DERC. The intern will contribute to two main tracks:

• Developing AI agents for the automated design and tape-out of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) using commercial and open-source PDKs and software.
• Designing software pipelines and writing code for the processing, analysis, and visualization of raw LiDAR data
  
  

• The development of AI models/agents for photonic integrated circuit layout and optimization.
• Automate design workflows using tools such as KLayout and GDSFactory.
• Work with both commercial and open-source PDKs for PIC design and tape-out.
• Develop code for preprocessing, filtering, and visualizing LiDAR data.
• Handle 3D point cloud data and object detection/classification.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary researchers in photonics, AI, and embedded systems
  
  

• Enrolled in or recently graduated with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Optics, or a related field.
• Strong background in machine learning, data science, or signal/image processing.
• Exposure to photonics design and simulation tools (e.g., COMSOL , Lumerical, GDSFactory, KLayout).
• Experience in Python.
• Familiarity with LiDAR systems or 3D sensor data processing is a strong advantage.
• Excellent analytical, coding, and teamwork skills.