Associate/Senior Optical Engineer, R&D

We are hiring an Optical Engineer at the Associate or Senior level to join Arcadia's research team.

This is a role for an optical scientist with a demonstrated aptitude for developing novel measurement techniques: someone who can identify the limits of existing optical tools and invent new ones to address them.

Optical instrumentation is central to how we study living systems.

Our current work spans spontaneous Raman spectroscopy, coherent Raman imaging (SRS and CARS), and live-cell microscopy of diverse organisms.

We bias toward label-free modalities that allow us to work across a wider range of organisms and generate data that is more readily comparable across biological systems.

We invent tools with affordability and usability in mind to enable greater adoption and impact.

The Optical Engineer will be on the research team, contributing directly to the scientific program by innovating on optical approaches.

They will also collaborate with the product development team to help transform new technologies into professionalized tools that can be deployed more broadly.

Therefore, the Optical Engineer should be excited and able to approach their inventions with scalability as a design consideration from the outset.

• Assess Arcadia's current optical capabilities in the context of our active research program and identify opportunities for new or improved approaches.
• Design, build, and characterize new optical systems, working across hardware, acquisition software, and data analysis as needed.
• Collaborate closely with Arcadia’s research scientists or external partners to understand experimental requirements and translate them into instrumentation solutions.
• Contribute to computational and analytical pipelines for spectral and imaging data, including signal processing and ML-based approaches where relevant.
• Create open source protocols and designs.