Meta-Optics Intern: Advanced Imaging Design

Metalenz; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 95,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Hybrid/work-from-home options

Snacks and drinks on-site

Gym and bike parking

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Metalenz seeks a PhD candidate to advance metasurface-based sensing systems and support meta-optic design. You will apply your PhD work to real products, collaborating with the design team to weave new developments into our software toolkit.

You will help expand system design capabilities beyond traditional optics, applying home-grown techniques to a broad range of consumer applications, and you will propose and test new analysis approaches in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Physics, Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, or related field.
• Strong background in metasurface physics/optimization, diffractive optics, or computational electromagnetics.
• Experience with HPC environments and software such as Julia or AWS is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Apply PhD work to Metalenz problems and contribute to meta-optics productization.
• Collaborate with design team to integrate developments into our software toolkit.
• Expand system design capabilities beyond traditional optics approaches.
• Propose, develop, and test new design and analysis techniques.

Skills

Metasurface physics

Diffractive optics

Computational electromagnetics

High-performance computing (Julia &AWS

MATLAB/Python or E&M software

Design/test new techniques

Education

PhD candidate in Physics/Applied Physics/Applied Mathematics or related field

Tools

Lumerical

CST Studio

Tidy3D

MEEP

Julia

Job description

Metalenz seeks a PhD candidate to advance metasurface-based sensing systems and support meta-optic design. You will apply your PhD work to real products, collaborating with the design team to weave new developments into our software toolkit.

You will help expand system design capabilities beyond traditional optics, applying home-grown techniques to a broad range of consumer applications, and you will propose and test new analysis approaches in a fast-paced environment.