Optics and Photonics Expert

Domain: Optics / Photonics / Electromagnetics
Experience: 1-3 years
Education: Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD
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.
Why Apply
Work directly on frontier AI research problems in your area of deep expertise
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 Qualifications
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
Currently or recently active in the field, hands-on rather than purely academic-adjacent
Comfortable with independent, asynchronous, remote work
Preferred Qualifications
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
Company Description
AfterQuery is a research lab investigating the boundaries of artificial intelligence through novel datasets and experimentation. We're backed by top investors, including Y Combinator and Box Group, and support all leading AI labs.

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