Senior Optical Engineer
Senior Optical Engineer
Category: Software Development
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Referral Reward: RON 5,000
Employment Type: Employment contract
Time Allocation: Full Time
Workplace Type: On-site
Remaining positions: 1
Who is this role for
We are seeking a highly motivated and passionate Optical Engineer to join our System Optics Team. This team is responsible for defining, designing, delivering, and validating optical components and subsystems that meet product-level performance req... Read More
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Key Responsibilities:
- This role requires daily, hands-on use of optical design and test tools — proficiency with Zemax OpticStudio (or equivalent) and direct experience with lab-based optical testing and characterization are required, not preferred.
- Own design activities for lenses, windows, mirrors, and other optical components, including engineering requirements targets.specification (ERS) development, optical specification definition, and requirements flow-down from system-level performance
- Develop and optimize designs for lenses, windows, mirrors, and other optical components using Zemax OpticStudio, CODE V, or equivalent optical design and simulation tools, including hands-on optimization, tolerancing, sensitivity and Monte Carlo analysis, performance analysis, and manufacturability assessment.
- Lead design execution for lenses, windows, mirrors, and other optical components across in-house engineering, external optical design consultants, and vendors; provide technical direction and drive design convergence against requirements.
- Review and approve optical design deliverables, including prescriptions, tolerance analyses, Monte Carlo results, drawings, and vendor design documentation.
- Define and validate specifications and acceptance criteria for lenses, windows, mirrors, and other optical components.
- Partner with optical component vendors and manufacturing teams to resolve design, fabrication, assembly, and performance issues, including failure analysis and mitigation plans.
- Own lens and optical component designs end-to-end — from concept and prototype through qualification, new product shipping optical products at scale.introduction (NPI), and high-volume production — including manufacturing ramp, yield improvement, cost reduction, and sustaining engineering, with accountability for successfully
- Plan and execute hands-on optical testing and characterization of lenses, windows, mirrors, and other optical components — measured performance with optical models and specifications.including MTF, wavefront error (WFE), distortion, relative illumination, boresight, and stray light measurements — correlating
- Lead future-generation design efforts for lenses, windows, mirrors, and other optical components, including architecture studies, trade-off analyses, technology evaluation, and development of optical solutions for next-generation products.
- Coordinate cross-functional efforts with system optics, mechanical, electrical, firmware, DSP, software, manufacturing, and supplier teams to ensure optical designs meet system-level performance and integration requirements.
- Drive optical design reviews and communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrate initiative by proposing and driving technical solutions to complex optical design and system challenges.
- Develop creative and practical approaches that balance optical performance, manufacturability, cost, schedule, and product requirements.
- Work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams.
- Develop analysis and automation workflows in Python or equivalent tools to support optical design, tolerance analysis, test correlation, and data analysis.
- Analyze optical performance data and formulate root-cause hypotheses for issues such as aberrations, alignment sensitivity, stray light, ghosting, tolerance stack-up, and manufacturing variation.
Required Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's or Ph.D. with 3-5 years, or bachelor’s degree with +7 years of experience in Optical/Photonics Engineering, Physics, or a related field, with hands-on experience in lens or optical system design.
- Strong fundamentals in geometrical and physical optics, imaging systems, aberration theory, and optical system engineering, with excellent problem-solving skills.
- Experience defining lens requirements and specifications from system-level optical performance requirements.
- Experience leading or technically managing optical design work performed by external consultants, lens suppliers, or manufacturing partners is highly desirable.
- Experience with lens manufacturing processes, optical materials, coatings, mechanical interfaces, and design-for-manufacturing considerations.
- Experience with optical tolerancing, sensitivity analysis, Monte Carlo analysis, and correlation between simulation and measured hardware performance.
- Experience with optical system bring-up, debugging, and validation.
- Experience developing next-generation lens concepts or conducting optical architecture and trade studies is a plus.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and equity
- Medical Insurance
- Flexible vacation policy
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in a cross-functional team