Internship / Master thesis on optical metasurface design & metalens applications (m/f/x)

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As a student, you work with your colleagues on an equal footing and create ideal conditions for your future career.

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In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

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With us, you have the opportunity to perfectly combine your studies with practical experience while actively contributing to exciting projects. This allows you to gain valuable skills, expand your network, and grow both professionally and personally.

  • Evaluate most promising semi-analytical models of metasurfaces

  • Development and optimization of an analytical model and integration within ray tracing internal software.

  • Simulation and design of test metasurfaces for a given application

  • Quantitative simulation of the tolerance budget on given application

  • Comparison with different rigorous design techniques (metric and merit function
    definition, computing cost)

  • Documentation of the algorithms developed and results


  • A background in Electromagnetism (Interferometry, holography, scattering, photonics, ...) and/or Mathematics (optimization, statistics, inverse problem)

  • You are enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program in one of the above subjects and experience in these fields and optical design is a plus

  • Applied knowledge in Python and /or MATLAB

Sounds exciting? Then become part of #teamZEISS and help us shape the future! Please provide your complete application documents (CV, transcript of records, etc.).

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