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Optical Scientist - DSR

Meta· Engineering
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Redmond, WA$184k - $257kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Optical Scientist position in Meta Reality Labs within the Advanced Photonics group of Display Systems Research (DSR). Focuses on nano-photonics for wearable AR systems, designing, simulating, and validating immersive display, sensing, and optical-compute components and architectures in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design and model component technologies and system architectures for near-eye display combiners, novel sensors, and optical compute
  • Advance design methodologies and workflows, including strategic planning of new algorithms and expansion of simulation and optimization capabilities
  • Partner with scientists and engineers across computation, optics, chemistry, materials science, process development, and integration to identify gaps and opportunities, and to build design, modeling, and optimization tools

Qualifications

  • PhD degree or equivalent experience in Optical Sciences, Physics, Electrical Engineering or a related field
  • 8+ years experience in optical design using standard design software such as Lumerical, Virtual Lab, FRED, LightTools, Zemax, or CODE V
  • 8+ years experience in scientific programming and data analysis tools (e.g. MATLAB, Python, C++, etc.)
  • 8+ years experience with methods of light propagation both in wave and ray domains as well as mixed models and familiarity with local and global optimization algorithm development
  • Experience with wave optics, geometric optics, polarization, and coherence
  • 8+ years experience with electromagnetic modeling and analysis of nanoscale structures, anisotropic materials, non-linear materials, switchable materials or holographic elements
  • 8+ years of experience in fabrication and functional testing of novel photonic devices such as metastructures, photonic integrated circuits, holographic elements, diffractive, and refractive structures

Skills

Required:Optical design softwareScientific programmingWave and ray optics modelingElectromagnetic modeling of nanoscale structuresFabrication and testing of photonic devices

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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