Photon Design expands UK team with addition of application engineers
The company says the new roles will sit at the intersection of sales, product management, and engineering functions, boosting productivity and accelerating the design process to meet increasing demand for photonic simulation products
Photon Design, a company developing photonic simulation CAD software, has announced it is expanding its Oxford-based team in the UK to include application engineers. The company says this step is to support growth and meet the increasing demand for its wide range of photonic simulation products.
“Application engineering is a hybrid role involved in sales, product management, and engineering functions,” said Dominic Gallagher, CEO of Photon Design. “It will facilitate alignment between customer requirements and our software development roadmap. Our application engineers will assist with technical and product support. As experienced software super-users, they have a comprehensive understanding of customer design challenges, offering expert support with simulations. The role will help accelerate the design process, improving performance and boosting productivity for customers. It will also create a structure where feedback is more easily captured to inform Photon Design’s R&D department, to ensure we remain an innovator at the forefront of the worldwide, photonic simulation industry.”
Photon Design will initially apply this approach to their laser simulation products, PICWAVE and HAROLD. By allowing engineers to concentrate on design and product enhancements, the company aims to accelerate new product introductions.
According to Photon Design, the laser simulation products which have already benefited from this approach include: the new Quantum Dot gain model for entire laser waveguide cross sections; high-power VCSELs, for multi-junction devices; and extending quantum dot simulation functionality to include a full, 3D, time domain.
