Vision Scientist - PICO Lab - San Jose

About Team PICO’s Imaging Systems & Human Engineering team is looking for passionate and versatile imaging experts to work on next-generation imaging algorithms that deliver top-tier visual experiences across PICO products, from camera capture to display rendering. Our team focuses on the end-to-end imaging pipeline, bridging camera systems, display technologies, and human visual perception. We develop and evaluate imaging algorithms that span optical design, digital image processing, computer vision, and system-level optimization, with a strong emphasis on image quality, efficiency, and real-world user experience. Team members play a key role in shaping both technology direction and productization roadmaps, contributing to the future of imaging technologies and their applications in VR / MR / AR devices. Responsibilities: - Develop novel perceptual metrics to quantify user experience in the areas of visual quality and comfort for AR/VR products. - Apply perception sciences in AR/VR product developments through psychophysics experiments, early vision modeling, and developing perceptual driven machine learning and AI imaging algorithms. - Design and implement eye-tracking related display features based on perceptual science principles, and validate performance through user studies. - Develop and maintain simulation platforms, computational models, and prototypes to accelerate hardware design iterations and software optimizations. - Analyze various aspects of visual quality and visual comfort of next generation display systems, to identify system limitations and define imaging system architecture specifications.