The optical engineer will contribute to the design and analysis of telescopes, cameras, and imaging spectrometers. They will participate in tolerancing, analyzing, and aligning novel telescopes, spectrometers, and cameras.
Compensation
The typical full time equivalent annual hiring range for this job in Pasadena, California. $152,880 - $188,448
Responsibilities
Contribute to the design and analysis of telescopes, cameras, and imaging spectrometers
Participate in tolerancing, analyzing, and aligning novel telescopes, spectrometers, and cameras
Support development for various optical instruments built within Section
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Optics, Physics, or Electrical Engineering
The Optical Engineer is based in Fairport, NY. Corning designs and manufactures the Tropel® brand of high-end, laser-based flatness metrology tools there.
Compensation
The range for this position is $133,911.00 - $184,128.00 assuming full time status.
Responsibilities
Become an expert-level user of the interferometer product line
Manage development projects as technical lead
Do hands-on prototyping, troubleshooting, and systems integration of complex opto-mechanical systems
Specify, characterize, and qualify laser sources and illumination and fiber delivery subsystems
Conduct repeatability, reproducibility, and gauge studies
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Optics, or Physics
Nice to have: optical interferometry
Nice to have: optical software analysis tools such as CODE V, LightTools, and FRED
Model, test and demonstrate new display concepts for the DaVinci system, perform hands‑on modeling and experimental validation of key display metrics, and provide technical assistance to external partners.
Responsibilities
Model new display concepts
Test and demonstrate display metrics such as brightness, contrast, image sharpness, resolution, white point and color gamut
Perform hands‑on modeling and experimental validation
Provide technical assistance to external development partners
Strategically develop supply chain priorities
Requirements
Masters Degree with 5 years of experience or PhD with 3 years of experience in Optical Engineering or Sciences, EE or Physics
Lead technical and business development for DLP Industrial markets at Texas Instruments, designing optical systems for industrial platforms and providing deep technical expertise throughout the product lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Design and optimize illumination and projection optical systems for DLP-based industrial applications
Develop and maintain optical system simulation models using Zemax/OpticStudio and/or FRED
Create reference optical designs, design guidelines, and application notes
Provide direct technical support to customers on optical system integration
Collaborate with DMD product and applications teams to define optical requirements for new device generations
The Camera Hardware Engineering group is responsible for all research, design, development, test and qualification of camera hardware for Apple products. The team is looking for a Camera Optical Engineer to develop and support custom lens design and development.
Responsibilities
Research, design, development, test and qualification of camera hardware for Apple products
Develop and support custom lens design and development
Perform comprehensive optical and image quality characterization of the lens and the camera module
The Senior Optical Systems Engineer is responsible for the development of optical assemblies, including designing novel lenses, performing tolerance analysis, and planning acceptance test criteria.
Compensation
Bonus: 25% Monthly Profit Sharing
Responsibilities
Design novel lenses
Perform detailed tolerance analysis including suggesting mechanical assembly methods
Present work at customer design reviews
Plan for acceptance test criteria and specify workflows on new and existing equipment
Perform first lab tests for verification
Requirements
B.S. in Optics, Physics, or equivalent academic program
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