Optical Engineer II
SGS Consulting
Job Responsibilities:
- Develop optical components, sub-assemblies, and optical systems for novel AR/MR display systems.
- Build and operate automated optical fabrication/metrology systems in the lab environment.
- Implement and conduct optics simulations using commercial software or scientific programming languages.
- Handle and catalogue optical components and manage lab equipment and environment.
- Communicate results with the team and to a larger organization.
Skills:
- Lab skills: optical experiments, lasers, metrology.
- MATLAB or Python.
- Understanding in diffractive optics.
- Optic stimulation tools (Zemax, etc.).
- Holographic optical element fabrication.
Education/Experience:
- BS degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline with 3+ years of experience; or Master’s degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline with 2+ years of experience or equivalent experience.
- Hands-on experience in implementing complex optical experiment systems from concept to benchtop system validation.
- Familiarity with diffractive optics, ray optics, optical metrology, and characterization.
- Previous training of optical laboratory, including laser safety, handling/cleaning optics, etc.
- 3+ years of experiences with scientific programming language (MATLAB or Python)
- Experience with holographic optical element fabrication or laser interferometer systems.
- Experience with optomechanical instruments (e.g. mechanical stages, motion controllers) and metrology instruments (e.g. spectrometer, polarimeter, CCD/CMOS sensors, spatial light modulators, etc.).
- Experience with automation programming in a laboratory setting (instrument interface, motion control, image acquisition, data collection and analysis) using MATLAB or Python.
- Experience with writing custom optic simulation software or simulations with commercial software (Zemax, CodeV, Lightools, etc.) to model novel optical systems, and optimize systems using numerical techniques.
- Experience with clean room experiments or optical coating/lamination.
- Experience with specialty optics, e.g. Bragg volume gratings, diffractive optics, polarization optics, etc.
- Experience with handling and processing of photopolymers.
- Proven track record of solving difficult problems and achieving high quality and significant results in optical systems, as demonstrated first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences, presentations, journal articles, patents, etc.
Vacancy posted more than 2 months ago
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