
Avicena is a privately held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with a development center in Edinburgh, Scotland, developing microLED-based ultra-low power, high bandwidth interconnects for chip-to-chip communications. Their technology targets High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI/ML, cloud computing, and other industries requiring low power interconnects such as camera sensors, autonomous vehicles, and aerospace. Avicena's LightBundle™ technology offers advanced chip-to-chip and chip-to-memory interconnects with high temperature operation up to 400ºC and is recognized for its innovation with over 100 patents. The company collaborates with major semiconductor manufacturers like TSMC and is positioned to address the energy efficiency bottleneck in next-generation computing architectures, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of data centers and computing systems.

Avicena is a privately held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with a development center in Edinburgh, Scotland, developing microLED-based ultra-low power, high bandwidth interconnects for chip-to-chip communications. Their technology targets High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI/ML, cloud computing, and other industries requiring low power interconnects such as camera sensors, autonomous vehicles, and aerospace. Avicena's LightBundle™ technology offers advanced chip-to-chip and chip-to-memory interconnects with high temperature operation up to 400ºC and is recognized for its innovation with over 100 patents. The company collaborates with major semiconductor manufacturers like TSMC and is positioned to address the energy efficiency bottleneck in next-generation computing architectures, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of data centers and computing systems.
Avicena is a privately held company developing microLED based ultra-low power high bandwidth interconnects for chip-to-chip communications. This technology will revolutionize High-Performance (HPC) and Cloud computing, as well as other industries where low power interconnects are critical like camera sensors, autonomous vehicles, and aerospace. Avicena is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a development center in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company was founded in 2019 by leading technologists from the optical networking industry with a track record of delivering breakthrough products. (www.avicena.tech)
About The Role We’re looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager / Engineering Manager to lead a team of ~8 engineers working on:
Failure analysis (FA) and reliability
Test development (hardware, software, data)
Optical and opto-mechanical packaging
You’ll own programme delivery and people leadership , and you’ll play a central role in coordinating work between Edinburgh and headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA .
Responsibilities Leadership & team development
Program ownership
HQ & cross-site collaboration
Technical delivery (FA, reliability, test, packaging)
Ways of working & quality
Qualifications Essential
Desirable
Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Optoelectronics or similar (or equivalent experience).
Strong experience running complex hardware programmes in semiconductors, photonics, optoelectronics or advanced packaging.
Hands-on background in at least two of:
FA & reliability
Test development (ATE, bench automation, data)
Optical / opto-electronic packaging
Proven people leadership: managing and developing engineers and/or leading technical teams end-to-end.
Comfortable working with distributed teams and external suppliers, including across US/Europe time zones.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment and rapidly respond to changes as needed.