Optics and Photonics Expert
Work directly on frontier AI research problems in your area of deep expertise
Hiring companyAfterQuery Experts
About the role
Domain: Optics / Photonics / Electromagnetics.
Why Apply
- Fully remote, flexible, asynchronous, fits around existing work.
- Competitive hourly compensation at $100 an hour, with milestone bonuses for consistent high quality work.
Responsibilities
- Design realistic technical scenarios and problem sets within your track.
- Author expert-level reference solutions and grading rubrics.
- Evaluate submitted solutions for correctness, depth, and domain judgment.
Required skills
- Hands-on experience building or validating computational models of optical, photonic, electromagnetic, RF, or communications systems.
- Working proficiency with a named simulation tool such as Lumerical, Zemax, Code V, RSoft, COMSOL, Ansys HFSS, CST, Meep, or Tidy3D.
Preferred skills
- Prior research publication record, open-source contributions, or recognized work product in optics or photonics.
- Experience evaluating, reviewing, or grading others' technical work (peer review, code review, grading, editing).
- Track-specific bonus signal: integrated photonics and PIC design, metasurfaces and nanophotonics, antenna and RF systems, fiber optic communications, or DSP and wireless PHY.
Experience and education
- Experience: 1-3 years.
- Education: Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD.
- Currently or recently active in the field, hands-on rather than purely academic-adjacent.
Assessment requirements
Resume
Candidates who meet the requirements and provide the requested materials will be prioritized for review. As part of this process, we conduct thorough background checks. Please apply only if you meet these requirements. Candidates who meet fewer than 70% of the stated qualifications may be flagged for misrepresenting their professional experience, which could affect eligibility for future project staffing.
Schedule details
Time Commitment: 4 hours/week.
Start Date: ASAP.
End Date: Ongoing.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
- Comfortable with independent, asynchronous, remote work.
Compensation details
- $100/hr
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