🚀 Now Hiring: Optical Modeling Engineers (2 Contract Roles – UK Remote)
📍 Remote (UK) | ⏳ 12-month contracts | 💷 £124K
🔍 AR/VR • Smart Glasses • Imaging • Camera Systems
I’m supporting a leading AR/VR organisation that is expanding its Camera Architecture & Simulation Team. They are hiring two senior Optical Modeling Engineers to help design, simulate, and validate next-generation camera systems used across Smart Glasses, AR, VR and advanced computer-vision applications.
If you have deep experience in camera development, imaging design and high-fidelity simulation, this is an exceptional opportunity.
🔧 Roles Available
1️⃣ Optical Modeling Engineer – Prototyping (Matlab/Python)
Non-negotiables:
* Strong camera development background
* Imaging design & image quality experience
* 8+ years hands-on with Matlab or Python
* Comfortable building prototypes, models, and simulation tools
2️⃣ Optical Modeling Engineer – Software Development (C++)
Non-negotiables:
* Strong camera development background
* Imaging design & image quality experience
* 8+ years experience in C++
* Ability to build scalable imaging simulation software
📌 What You’ll Work On
* End-to-end camera simulation (light → lens → sensor → ISP → image output)
* Developing & validating optical / imaging models
* Prototyping new lens and sensor configurations
* Working with tools like Zemax & Code V
* Image quality analysis (MTF, SNR, aberrations, PSF, noise modelling)
* Supporting hardware & software teams with simulation insights
* Improving fidelity, efficiency, and performance of simulation pipelines
* Researching calibration, metrology & modern imaging simulation technologies
🎯 Ideal Backgrounds
* Smartphone camera teams (e.g., major mobile R&D teams)
* Semiconductor or imaging companies (camera pipelines, sensors, CV/ML imaging)