Optical Engineer II at SGS Consulting Washington DC

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.

• Lab skills: optical experiments, lasers, metrology.
• MATLAB or Python.
• Understanding in diffractive optics.
• Optic stimulation tools (Zemax, etc.).
• Holographic optical element fabrication.

• 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, Lighttools, 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.