Camera Simulation Engineer

What you'll do

• Develop and maintain high-throughput simulation frameworks to generate large volumes of synthetic imagery on-demand.
• Build and refine models of camera systems from sensor to lens to simulate real-world imaging performance.
• Conduct simulation studies to characterize end-to-end hardware and software performance to guide product architecture decisions.
• Define hardware design specifications and key performance metrics for photographic and machine-vision applications.
• Partner with metrology and calibration teams to ensure simulation accuracy reflects real-world hardware behavior.
• Analyze manufacturing data to validate and correlate results against actual hardware performance.
• Develop algorithms for image quality enhancement and synthetic data generation for machine learning pipelines.

What we're looking for

• BS degree in Optics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience in Optics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Programming experience in at least one of the following: Python, C, C++, or Matlab.
• Experience with imaging system design, optical design, computational imaging, or similar.
• MS/PhD degree in Optics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (preferred).
• Experience in optics modeling and simulation (preferred).
• Experience in project management or driving projects independently in ambiguous spaces (preferred).
• Published research in imaging, computational photography, or related fields (preferred).
• Experience with diffraction, raytracing, beam propagation, radiometry, or sensor physics (preferred).
• Experience with synthetic data generation for ML training pipelines and model optimization (preferred).
• Experience with distributed processing/simulations at scale (preferred).