Staff Design Engineer, IonQ

• Ph.D. in optical engineering, electrical engineering or related field/discipline
• 8+ years of professional relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of experience in the hands-on design, simulation, and optimization of optical metalenses
• 3+ years of programming experience in a general-purpose programming language (like Python, Matlab, etc.)
• Experience with simulation tools for photonic devices, such as Lumerical, COMSOL, Flexcompute, or similar
• Experience with raytracing tools and optical design tools, such as Zemax, Code V or similar
• Strong data processing, visualization, and organizational skills
• Familiarity with fabrication processes, design constraints, test, and packaging requirements for metalenses

Desirable

• We are looking for a Staff Engineer, Metalens Design
• In this role, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems
• In this role, you will focus primarily on developing and utilizing in-house design pipelines to produce detailed and accurate simulations of optical metasurfaces, including as components of complex multi-element systems
• You will instruct collaborators on fabricating metasurfaces for use in trapped ion quantum computing systems
• You will also have the opportunity to work with a cross-functional team of engineers and physicists to innovate the design of cutting-edge trapped-ion quantum computing modules and components, through your expertise on the opportunities and limitations of optical metasurface technology
• The design workflows and simulation pipelines you build and use will help drive the overall development of a new and game-changing photonics technology to enable scalable quantum computing
• Build up the micro-optics and metalens design and simulation workflow, across multiple photonics and optics simulation tools, to ensure high accuracy, efficient, and detailed modelling
• Model and optimize the design of meta-atom libraries using techniques such as finite-element analysis, FDTD, RCWA, etc
• Utilize the simulation pipeline and ray-tracing tools to design and optimize metalens and micro-optic components
• Perform automated sensitivity and tolerance analysis on optical systems composed of meta-optic components
• Maintain high-quality, scalable, well-tested scripts and models through architecture and code reviews
• Use device characterization data as feedback for design and fabrication to improve optics performance and simulation accuracy
• Drive, review, and finalize device specifications in collaboration with the system team, system integrators, and product team
• Drive research efforts in the modeling and integration of metalenses in complex systems, in collaboration with cross-functional collaborators
• Identify, track, and resolve or mitigate execution roadblocks and technical risks
• Provide clear, concise communication to management and team members in different forums and for a variety of backgrounds and expertise
• Teamwork: Strong team player with the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders, such as testing engineers and physicists, who depend on the design results