Senior Optics Physicist​/Research Scientist

Angstrom Vision Inc. is seeking a permanent full-time Senior Optics Physicist/Research Scientist to join our research and development team in North Vancouver, British Columbia. You will work within the R&D team to design, model, implement, research, and develop digital holography technologies and 3D sensors/microscopes for a variety of applications such as defect inspection in the manufacturing process of semiconductors, advanced displays, lithium-ion batteries, nano‑micro materials, and microelectronics parts.

The ideal candidate will possess expertise in ray tracing modelling in optical microscope design, optical system design and simulation, diffractive optics, digital holography, lasers, incoherent illumination, spectrometer (hyperspectral camera), image processing, and programming.
Terms of Employment
Permanent full-time

JOB DESCTIPTION
As a Senior Optics Physicist/Research Scientist, you will be responsible for the analysis of industry requirements and idea generation of digital holography optical system configuration that will be required in the metrology industry through your accumulated knowledge and skillset. You will design the system by brainstorming with team members about identifying parts, technologies, and algorithms necessary for system configuration based on the characteristics analysis and requirements of the measurement samples provided by customers.

When configuring the system in the design phase, customers' unique measurement requirements that exceed the specifications of the conventional parts arise. As such, you may be required to model, design, and build customized parts along with a custom parts manufacturer. The Senior Optics Physicist/Research Scientist will develop innovative algorithms, implement them in a computer programming language, and conduct experiments.

The position crucially requires hands‑on experience in setting up optical system hardware in laboratory environments and iterative experiments to test the algorithms by accurately aligning and calibrating each optical part and element. The Senior Optics Physicist/Research Scientist will contribute to our collaborative research by working with other researchers, engineers, and production specialists to improve and develop new digital holographic microscopy. The position involves versatility, creative thinking, inclusive teamwork, and detailed execution of R&D steps from product planning to completion of the final product.

You will report all R&D status and results directly to the CEO.

duties & Responsibilities

Lead the Research and Development Team, analyze user requirements, map out an R&D Strategy for digital holographic microscopes and 3D sensors, schedule R&D, construct an R&D budget, and collaborate with the Business Development Team.

Refine and redefine product specifications requested by customers.

Study and select optical parts/components for optimal product design of holographic microscope and 3D sensor products. Design custom optical parts and work with product vendors to build the custom‑designed optical parts.

Design digital holographic microscopes and other 3D sensors including lasers, optics, mechanics, electrical and electronic parts/components, cameras, spectrometers, and computers.

Design and implement optical modelling/simulation software platform including libraries to prove specific algorithms to be used in digital holography.

Invent novel holography and image processing algorithms, implement and prove algorithms in MATLAB, Python, and/or C/C++, tune and calibrate the holographic microscope system, and experiment, test, and analyze independently or with team staff.

Research and develop film thickness measurement algorithms and libraries based on detailed system‑level analysis for multi‑layered optical thin film stacks deposited on a semiconductor wafer and/or advanced OLED displays.

Research and develop an auto‑numerical refocusing algorithm, implement the algorithm in software, and experiment based on the captured holograms for the measurement of high depth range.

Research and develop novel single shot phase shifting algorithms for on‑axis systems.

Collaborate with machining and integration…