Optical Simulation Engineer

• B.S. in Physics, Optical engineering, or Electrical engineering and 3 years of industry experience or equivalent
• Experience in sequential and/or non-sequential rays trace tools (e.g., Zemax, LightTools) for design, analysis, optimization, and tolerancing of optical systems
• Experience in one or more scientific computing languages (e.g., Python, C/C#, Matlab, etc.) for optical simulation, custom analysis scripting, and data post-processing and visualization

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Optical engineering, Electrical engineering or equivalent
• Strong working knowledge of refractive and diffractive optical design and pertinent optical simulation approaches including ray tracing, Fourier beam propagation, RCWA, FDTD, Mueller calculus, etc.
• Experience with near-to-eye display technologies and perceptual metrics for human vision
• Experience with model validation and improvement based on laboratory experimental results
• Experience in mass production of consumer optical devices

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