CLEARink Displays Inc. is looking for an Electro-Optical Scientist with a passion for development and commercialization of cutting edge display technologies to lead the development of display driving algorithms at CLEARink. The candidate will work closely with Electrical Engineers, Optical Physicists and Chemists. You will be responsible for designing and executing experiments to understand electro-optical phenomena on the CLEARink display technology to develop and implement optimal driving waveforms for customer applications.

Responsibilities:

CLEARink will rely heavily on the candidate as a key member of a cross-functional team with members skilled in optics and materials to understand the electro-optical characteristics of the CLEARink display module and optimize performance. Additional responsibilities include:

• Research and develop reproducible optical response with different voltage driving on simple test cells and TFT’s.
• Design test plans to quantify and qualify the electrical-optic display performance.
• Participate in electrical-optical lab design and setup.
• Analyze the display on test cell and TFT modules for electrical and optical behavior.
• Design new electrical-optical driving mechanism for every new TFT test build.
• Provide functional design recommendation for TST driving electronics.
• Participate in display subsystem design review.
• Research waveform algorithms.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Engineering Physics, Electrical Engineering or Applied Math.
• 2-5 years’ experience with electronic devices and laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies and function generators.
• Must be self-driven, always curious and have a passion to understand how things work.
• Have excellent troubleshooting skills and tenacity.
• Ability to work in a fast paced startup environment.
• Great documentation skills, experimental design, and result recording.
• Knowledge of a broad range of optics including imaging, illumination, radiometry and photometry, physical and geometric optics, statistics and polarization.
• Knowledge and experience with color science, colorimetry and visual optics.
• Programming experience: Labview, Matlab, C/C++, python is beneficial.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Company Summary

CLEARink Displays is developing next generation reflective display modules with the daylight readability of paper and the colorful video performance of digital displays.  The company was founded in 2012 as a U.S. Inc., with product development, engineering, and technology development in Fremont, CA. 

CLEARink currently has 20 team members, including eight PhD’s from leading international universities, and a strong portfolio of 25 patents covering optics, device architecture and materials. The entrepreneurial management team has global experience in commercializing display technologies and hands-on experience in managing display businesses in Asia – home of all display manufacturing.

The Company is currently in the development phase and increasing the size of the technology, product development, and engineering teams as it transitions to commercialization.

Waveform & Device Development Engineer

Job Summary

CLEARink Displays Inc. is looking for a Waveform & Device Development Engineer with a passion for development and commercialization of cutting edge display technologies.  This position will work on optimizing drive waveforms for electrophoretic displays at CLEARink. The candidate will work closely with Electrical Engineers, Software Engineers, Scientists and Physicists. You will organize and schedule work programs with Sr. Electro-Optical Engineer.

Responsibilities

CLEARink will rely heavily on the candidate as a key member of a cross-functional team with members skilled in optics and materials to develop and understand the relationship between waveform characteristics and CLEARink display performance. Additional responsibilities include:

• Develop drive waveforms for CLEARink Displays.
• Study drive waveform interactions with device operation and materials.
• Perform electro-optical measurements on incoming samples.

• Interpret measurements and derive basic properties of the samples.
• Synthesize a waveform through repetitive optimization, resulting in error-free operation of the sample.
• Assist in process and development with R&D team.
• Assist in executing and interpreting process/product reliability testing.
• Assist in QA activities.
• Communicate with internal and external groups for timely delivery of samples; software and/or hardware.
• Work with suppliers for prototype design, evaluation and testing.
• Provide data and work with Hardware and Software display development teams.

Qualifications

• Strong software, firmware programming experience.
• Strong modeling and simulation experience.
• Strong pragmatic, hands-on approach.
• Accuracy in delivering precise results.
• Working knowledge of electro-optical measurements.

• Have excellent troubleshooting skills and tenacity.
• Technical communications skills.

• Familiarity with optical metrology tools and setup for image quality testing.
• Must be high energy, multi-tasker, resourceful problem solver, ability to work under pressure, take initiative.

Education and Experience

• PhD in Applied Physics, Mathematics, Engineering Physics, or Electrical Engineering.

Benefits

We value our employees’ time and efforts. In exchange for your hard work and dedication, we offer competitive compensation and medical coverage including health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance. We work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning and culture.

To Apply

To respond to this opportunity, please go to: hr@clearinkdisplays.com

Job Summary

To respond to this opportunity, please email resume to: hr@clearinkdisplays.com