GaN-on-Silicon microLED and optical interconnect design and manufacturing
Plessey designs and fabricates photonic devices from its Plymouth fab, spanning microLED displays and optical interconnects on a GaN-on-Silicon process. The stack pairs chip-design tooling (Verilog, SystemVerilog, GDSII, FPGA) and Teradyne UltraFLEX test with SerDes work, matching active projects in co-packaged optics and high-speed optical links. Senior-heavy, accelerating engineering hiring sits alongside SAP integration and hybrid Kubernetes-on-cloud infrastructure work.
Plessey Semiconductors is a privately held UK company founded in 2010 and headquartered in Plymouth, Devon, with 201–500 employees. It develops photonic devices and systems, including microLED displays for AR, VR and wearable applications and optical interconnects for computing. Research, IP, materials, process development and manufacturing are run in a single integrated operation at its Plymouth facility. Engineering work covers semiconductor design, embedded firmware on STM32 and Zephyr, metrology, and production test.
Plessey uses Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, FPGA and GDSII for design, Teradyne UltraFLEX, LabVIEW and TestStand for test, COMSOL, MATLAB and JMP for analysis, plus SAP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Terraform.
Projects include co-packaged optics, high-speed SerDes-based optical links, a next-generation optical interconnect solution, new product introduction programmes and process qualification.
Plessey is headquartered in Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom, where it designs, tests and manufactures its photonic technologies; current hiring is UK-based.
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