Optical Engineer - Metrology

The Meta Reality Labs (RL) Metaverse Display and Optics team focuses on moving the state-of-art display and optical technologies forward for Meta VR products, which gives people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. The team is responsible for technology development and maturation, component design, novel manufacturing processes and metrology development, and system integration of display and optics, for all Meta VR products.The Metaverse D&O Performance and Immersive Experience team is looking for an experienced Optical Metrology Engineer. This person will work with cross functional teams to define the requirements, lead the development, qualification and implementation of optical metrology equipment for characterizing optical modules and systems for Metaverse VR products.

Optical Engineer - Metrology Responsibilities:

• Define, design and develop optical metrology solutions including hardware engineering, test software implementation, and instrument qualification
• Develop benchtop and production instrumentation to characterize complex optical modules and integrated systems (display and optics)
• Collect and perform statistical analysis on metrology data to correlate to performance metrics
• Present conclusive results and assess human visual/optical performance given design goals and product requirements
• Provide actionable recommendations and relevant failure analysis to debug or root-cause issues
• Bring-up metrology tools from vendors for factory manufacturing

• BS degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline with 2+ years of experience
• Hands-on experience in optical metrology/test development from concept to system validation
• In-depth knowledge of imaging optics, image quality metrics, optical metrology and characterization
• High proficiency with analysis tools such as Python, Matlab, C, Minitab or JMP is required
• Hands-on industrial experience with tool bring-in at the factory
• Excellent command of verbal communication and presentation abilities

• BS degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline with 5+ years of experience
• Experience in computer vision metrics and techniques
• Hands-on experience with AR/VR products
• Experience with hands-on characterization of optical test systems, performing testing and validation of optical components and systems
• Understanding of optical metrology fundamentals, system requirement definition, especially with regards to VR lens optics and VR display
• Familiarity with color science and free-form optical surface metrology