Senior Optical Designer Engineer

Senior Optical Design Engineer, Electro-Optic Systems – Irvine, CA

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Senior Optical Design Engineer, Electro-Optic Systems The Zygo Electro-Optics group designs and builds a wide variety of cutting edge optical devices in a wide range of applications including medical imaging, laser surgery, gene sequencing, AR/VR, commercial space, semiconductor, and defense. As a lead optical designer you would be a key member of the E-O engineering team taking a broad range of designs from concept to production. You would also support projects more widely within Zygo for cutting edge optical instruments and optical fabrication. Assignments are given in the form of product requirements, objectives and schedule.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Support troubleshooting activities for product development and manufacturing groups.
• Design implementation and transfer to product development.
• Technical communication of product design and metrology topics directly to the customer’s technical leads
• Supporting the opportunity development and capture process as an optical systems expert.
• Optical design and tolerancing, specification development, and metrology system and measurement process definition.
• Providing the optical and metrology systems’ technical input for customer proposals.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Ability to communicate to all levels in the organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to perform effectively in a technically diverse teaming environment.
• Ability to travel to meet program needs and develop new business opportunities.
• High level of proficiency with CodeV or Zemax (preferably both)
• Proven track record for successfully designing complex optical and metrology systems from initial concept to manufacturing.
• Demonstrated ability to engage customers and stakeholders in the synthesis of product specifications, design goals and product cost trades.
• Demonstrated capability with other analytical tools such as Mathematica and MathCad
• Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline plus 7 or more years of experience, or master's degree in relevant discipline plus 5 or more years of experience, or doctorate in relevant discipline plus 3 or more years, or equivalent combination of education and experience.