Optical Systems Engineer

At Meta Reality Labs, we are developing the future of Wearables and Mixed Reality products and this team focuses on developing display and optics technologies for Meta products. The team's mission is to create see-through display systems that seamlessly blend the real and virtual realms. This involves designing the architecture and all display sub-systems for AR glasses based on leading technologies developed by Meta’s teams. We work on creating advanced display technologies that are essential for AR and VR systems while having sub-teams that connect bits, electrons, photons, and experience for display products across wearables and the metaverse while focusing on display silicon architecture, applied perception studies, image quality, and defining the roadmap and long-term platform development strategy. Within XDO we also aim to develop and implement test, characterization, metrology, and data solutions to support the creation of transparent display systems.Optical Systems Engineer Responsibilities

• Directly contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results
• Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts
• Work with a large team
• Help identify long-term ambitious research goals as well as intermediate milestones
• Prioritize research that can be applied to Meta's product development
• Mentor other team members. Play a significant role in healthy cross-functional collaboration

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of product development industry experience
• Experience with Optical Systems, and general knowledge of optics including imaging, illumination, radiometry and colorimetry, physical and geometric optics, and polarization
• Proven record in developing complex systems involving optics, mechanics, and automation. Experience working with system-level prototyping work, including hands-on prototyping of bench-top optical components

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in design-for-manufacturing, design-for-cost, quality control and statistical analysis using JMP, Matlab, or similar programs
• Experience with optics technologies with one or more of the following: AF camera actuator (e.g. VCM), digital zoom lens, image stabilization OIS technology, scanning based display, physical optics, computational optics, holography, Image quality evaluation, Stray light molding and analysis, lens testing and characterization, Imaging optics design and manufacturing, Illumination optics design and manufacturing, Visual Optics, or Optical testing and metrology, radiometry, and photometry
• Experience working, communicating, and collaborating in a cross-functional environment with minimal direction and working with uncertainty and directing cross-functional partner teams to manage the risk portfolio at different stages of product development
• Experience with display and sensing components, such as near-eye displays and sensors
• Advanced degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Software or a related technical discipline
• Experience in development of optical systems and prototypes in a team environment across a broad set of disciplines including Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, and Optics

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