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Meta Platforms, Inc. Research Scientist in Redmond, Washington
Employer: META PLATFORMS, INC. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
Job Title: Research Scientist
Job Code: REQ-2405-137905
Job Location: Redmond, Washington
Job Type: Full-time, 9am -- 6pm, 40 hours a week, Monday -- Friday
Salary: $203,350/year to $240,240/year + bonus + equity + benefits.
Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus or equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta at this link: https://www.metacareers.com/facebook-life/benefits.
Duties:
Develop new optical concepts and technologies to enable breakthroughs in AR/VR display systems in terms of form factor, cosmetic appearance, power consumption, and optical functionalities to provide viable technical paths for AR/VR smart eyewear. Build and validate polarization diffractive and physical optics modeling tools to understand the optical responses and performance limits of those new concepts and technologies. Propose and validate solutions to mitigate the risks and limits of those new concepts. Enable the "design - prototyping -- metrology" iteration loop for developing those new concepts, collaborate Support prototyping activities with internal peers and external partners to prove the viability of subsystems in AR/VR headsets. Support evaluation and characterization of optical components, and system integration, as part of the proof-of-concept process. Collaborate with the larger research and product teams to explore concepts, perform trades and drive optical system development to create compelling experiences.
Requirements:
Requires a Doctorate degree in Optical Sciences, Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
Completion of one graduate-level course, one research project, or one internship involving the following skills: 1. Polarization optics, polarization ray tracing, and polarization aberration analysis; 2. Applied research or product development of optical systems requiring any combination of the following: imaging, illumination, physical optics, polarization optics, stray light analysis or holography; 3. Polarization ray tracing of optical systems; 4. Designing optical tools such as Zemax, CODE V, FRED, or ASAP; 5. Polarization optics and physical optics modeling tools, such as MATLAB, Python, COMSOL, and methods such as Jones Matrix, FDTD, or RCWA; 6. Display optics, imaging, illumination, radiometry and colorimetry, physical and geometric optics, and polarization; 7. Imaging and viewing optics design and tolerancing; 8. Solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches; 9. Aberration theory, including geometric aberration and pupil aberration; 10. Image reconstruction and iteration algorithm; 11. Optical retarder design; 12. Communicating and sharing knowledge with people who are not from an optical background; 13. Metrology for optical system and polarization optics; and 14. Liquid crystal related devices, such as SLM, LCD, or phase modulator.
To apply, please send resume to the following email address SWApplicant@meta.com & include the job order number visible to you above in the subject line of the email. It is important to include the job order number in the subject line of the email. Also include the Ref code number: [REQ-2405-137905].