Laser/Optical Simulation Engineer
Core
Develop and maintain an end-to-end digital twin (virtual beamline) for an inertial fusion energy laser architecture using excimer lasers and nonlinear optical compression.
Role type
Senior IC laser/optical simulation engineer
Builds
Scalable virtual beamline architecture and system-level trade studies for fusion laser hardware
Domain
Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) / High-power laser physics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Optical simulation (diffraction, ray tracing, Gaussian beamlet decomposition, laser amplification, turbulence correction, nonlinear optical propagation), Monte Carlo simulations, HPC resource utilization, scalable code development, unit testing, complex optical/laser system design
Preferred skills
Zemax, FRED, inverse solution methods, CAD software, algorithm optimization for distributed computing
Responsibilities
Take ownership of the virtual beamline digital twin; collaborate with Theory, Software, Optical, and Mechanical engineering teams; run Monte Carlo simulations and parameter sensitivity studies; develop and enforce unit tests; write technical documentation
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC