Optical Simulation Scientist (m/w/x)

The employees of Corporate Research & Technology work under the best possible conditions on innovative technologies and the latest application possibilities that benefit all ZEISS business areas - from the Semiconductor Division to Microscopy and Medical Technology.

Your role

In virtual prototyping we computationally emulate a planned product, an idea, or a new design with respect to technical feasibility, overall performance, and applicative value. This is often faster than classical prototyping and allows to pursue unorthodox ideas - and therefore boosts innovation, which is at the core of ZEISS as a technological leader. To this end we focus on advancing optical and some non-optical simulations with high precision at scale. Your role in central research will be to initiate and drive such virtual prototyping activities across the ZEISS portfolio. Utilizing your implementation and prototyping skills you will contribute to advance the development roadmaps for new ZEISS products.

You have

• a university degree and excellent programming skills - a PhD would be a plus

• proven and recognized expertise in physical optics and optical simulation in both theory and implementation, also in the form of scientific publications

• worked and developed with at least some toolkits in this field, such as Fourier optics, pytorch, OpenGL, FEniCS, Pbrt, Comsol, Unreal Engine, Blender, Virtual Lab, Code V, Zemax or similar

• knowledge and hands-on experience on how to develop simulations at scale and optimize regarding speed (eg. CUDA, distributed computing on clusters and in the cloud)

• state-of-the-art overview of latest research and industry trends in optics and physics-based rendering

• the ability to think as a system engineer and the verve to drive innovation

• strong communication and presentation skills · the vision and hands-on mindset to make your ideas come to life in ZEISS products

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