Optical Metasurface R&D Engineer

As an Optical Metasurface R&D Engineer you will be responsible for the multi-physics simulations, characterization, and opto-electronic system integration of Lumotive’s next-generation dynamic metasurface technology. The ideal candidate will have tremendous versatility, blend of strong computational and practical lab skills with system engineering capabilities. This position reports directly to the CTO.Your responsibilities will be:· Multi-physics design of metasurface unit cell with a combination of electromagnetic simulations, liquid crystal dynamics, and electrostatics with constraints based on CMOS manufacturing, electrical performance, and LC materials· Computational and emipircal modulation pattern optimization and large scale array simulations to optimize beamforming performance· Optical and electrical characterization of dynamic metasurface chips, including guiding the development of new testing infrastructure· Understanding of opto-electronic system tradeoffs like power, size, cost, and optical performance, size and how they are affected by the metasurface properties· Work closely with ASIC design team on driver architecture, compute requirements and optimization of modulation pattern generation·