Founding ML Engineer
New York City, NY$150k - $200kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Founding ML Engineer role at Photonium, on-site in New York, NY. Build and deploy ML pipelines for optical design automation, generate candidate configurations, interface with simulation tools, and collaborate with optical engineers to improve design outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Develop models for generating and optimizing optical system layouts based on design goals and constraints
- Build workflows to interface with simulation tools and extract performance metrics
- Collaborate with optical engineers to define data structures and prepare training data
Qualifications
- Strong experience in building and deploying ML pipelines
- Interest in optics, physics-based simulation, or generative design
- Familiarity with CAD, optics, and/or simulation tools is a plus
Skills
Required:Machine learning
Nice to have:Optics
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Photonium
AI-Driven Optical System Design
Photonium automates optical system design. Think of us as Cadence or Synopsys chip design automation, but for optics instead of semiconductors. We handle the full design workflow—from optimization and verification to sourcing—for industries including quantum, biomedical imaging, LiDAR for autonomous vehicles and defense, and metrology for semiconductor fabrication.