Optical Engineer

Optical Engineer

Payrate: $80.00 - $85.82/hr.

We are looking for an Optical Engineer with passion for new technology development to join our team, whose mission is to deliver beyond state‑of‑the‑art waveguide technologies for consumers near‑to‑eye displays at our research and development facilities. We are looking for a candidate with experience in client optical device design and metrology either as part of their PhD or industry experience.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with technical leadership team, technical program managers and other research scientists and engineers to devise and execute on design validation of client optical devices towards program priorities.
• Design, build and validate client optical metrology systems to support design validation activities.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with operations, productization and system engineering teams to lead and support activity on research prototypes and scale up including pilot‑scale ramp and technology transfer to contract manufacturer.

Minimum Qualifications:

• PhD degree in Engineering, Optical Sciences, Physics.
• Experience in diffractive optics design, free‑space optics, optical alignment or optomechanics.
• Years of experience with scientific programming languages such as LabVIEW, MATLAB, Python, Mathematica, or similar.
• Years of experience in statistical data analysis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in electromagnetic modeling and analysis of nanoscale structures, anisotropic materials, films, or holographic elements using algorithms such as RCWA or FDTD.
• Experience in optical metrology tools such as interferometry, image quality testing, and polarization testing.
• Experience in LabVIEW programming.
• Experience in one or more optical design tools such as Virtu
  
  ALLab, Code V, Zemax, Light Tools or FRED.
• Years of experience in hardware prototyping (e.g., bench prototyping, basic electronics, and software system integration).

Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $80.00 - $85.82 /hour. Non‑exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience.

Full‑time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus.

Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.