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Senior, Optical Simulation Engineer

Job Description

This position is for a Senior Optical Simulation Engineer working in Magic Leap’s Optical Engineering eyepiece design team. Magic Leap has industry leading technology for the simulation and fabrication of advanced displays for augmented reality. The Optical Simulation Engineer will be responsible for enhancing and maintaining custom simulation software developed internally to Magic Leap, which runs on local as well as high performance computing environments. This position will identify and implement new capabilities, continue to improve simulation performance metrics, also support multiple technical users inside the company.

Responsibilities

• A key member of the OE eyepiece design team with a focus on enhancing and maintaining our core custom simulation capability
• Incorporation of new tools, methods, algorithms, etc. as may be relevant
• Use of our custom software in carrying out complex simulation and design tasks
• Improvement of simulation performance metrics
• Application of software best practices to the software control and evolution process
• Supporting a user base on multiple platforms

Qualifications

• Must be able to code in C++, Python
• Must possess understanding of EM simulation methodologies, e.g. RCWA, FDTD, Physical Optics, Ray tracing
• Must possess knowledge of high performance cloud computing utilization, e.g. AWS
• Must possess understanding of high performance scientific computing and parallelization methodologies
• Experience with Matlab strongly preferred
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Focused on problem resolution and delivering solutions.
• Must be able to communicate and work well with multidisciplinary groups.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills are required.

• MS or Ph.D. in optics, physics or related fields, with 3+ (MS) or 1 (Ph.D.) years of industry experience in optical components or sub-systems.

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