Optical Engineer II

SGS Consulting; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SGS Consulting in Washington, DC is seeking an Optical Engineer to develop components, sub-assemblies, and systems for AR/MR display technologies.

You will build and operate automated optical fabrication and metrology systems, run optics simulations with MATLAB or Python, manage lab equipment, and communicate results to the team and broader organization.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in a related technical discipline with 3+ years of experience, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience implementing complex optical experiment systems from concept to benchtop validation.
• Familiarity with diffractive optics, ray optics, optical metrology, and characterization.

Responsibilities

• Develop optical components, sub-assemblies, and optical systems for AR/MR display systems.
• Build and operate automated optical fabrication/metrology systems in the lab environment.
• Implement and conduct optics simulations using MATLAB or Python and other software.
• Handle and catalogue optical components and manage lab equipment and environment.
• Communicate results with the team and to a larger organization.

Skills

Lab skills

Lasers

Metrology

MATLAB

Python

Diffractive optics

HOE fabrication

Education

BS in Optical Eng / Physics / EE / ME / CE

MS in Optical Eng / Physics / EE / ME / CE

Tools

Zemax

Job description

Job Responsibilities

Develop optical components, sub-assemblies, and optical systems for novel AR/MR display systems.

Build and operate automated optical fabrication/metrology systems in the lab environment.

Implement and conduct optics simulations using commercial software or scientific programming languages.

Handle and catalogue optical components and manage lab equipment and environment.

Communicate results with the team and to a larger organization.

Skills

• Lab skills: optical experiments, lasers, metrology.
• MATLAB or Python.
• Understanding in diffractive optics.
• Optic stimulation tools (Zemax, etc.).
• Holographic optical element fabrication.

Education/Experience

BS degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline with 3+ years of experience; or Master’s degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline with 2+ years of experience or equivalent experience.

Hands-on experience in implementing complex optical experiment systems from concept to benchtop system validation.

Familiarity with diffractive optics, ray optics, optical metrology, and characterization.

Previous training of optical laboratory, including laser safety, handling/cleaning optics, etc.

3+ years of experiences with scientific programming language (MATLAB or Python)

Experience with holographic optical element fabrication or laser interferometer systems.

Experience with optomechanical instruments (e.g. mechanical stages, motion controllers) and metrology instruments (e.g. spectrometer, polarimeter, CCD/CMOS sensors, spatial light modulators, etc.).

Experience with automation programming in a laboratory setting (instrument interface, motion control, image acquisition, data collection and analysis) using MATLAB or Python.

Experience with writing custom optic simulation software or simulations with commercial software (Zemax, CodeV, Lightools, etc.) to model novel optical systems, and optimize systems using numerical techniques.

Experience with clean room experiments or optical coating/lamination.

Experience with specialty optics, e.g. Bragg volume gratings, diffractive optics, polarization optics, etc.

Experience with handling and processing of photopolymers.

Proven track record of solving difficult problems and achieving high quality and significant results in optical systems, as demonstrated first-authored publications at leading workshops or conferences, presentations, journal articles, patents, etc.