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Optical Scientist - DSR
$184K–$257K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years and 10+ years, as specified for individual qualifications.
- Education
- PhD degree or equivalent experience in Optical Sciences, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Designs, models, fabricates, and validates nanophotonic components and optical system architectures for wearable AR displays, sensing, and optical computing.
What you'll do
- Design and model near-eye display combiners, novel sensors, and optical-computing components and architectures.
- Advance design workflows, algorithms, simulation, and optimization capabilities.
- Collaborate across scientific and engineering disciplines to develop tools that address design and modeling limitations.
What they ask for
- 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 and in scientific programming and data analysis tools.
- Experience with wave and ray light propagation, mixed models, optimization algorithms, wave and geometric optics, polarization, and coherence.
- 8+ years experience in electromagnetic modeling and nanoscale photonic-device fabrication and testing; the posting also specifies 10+ years in optical metrology, optical-structure design/fabrication/testing, machine learning or deep neural networks for nano-optics design, and electromagnetic modeling and simulation software tools.
Pay
$184,000/year to $257,000/year USD base salary; bonus and equity amounts are unspecified.
Tools
Lumerical, Virtual Lab, FRED, LightTools, Zemax, CODE V, MATLAB, Python
AI focus
Use machine learning or deep neural networks for novel nano-optics design.
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