The Manager, Optical Engineering is primarily responsible for leading multiple teams in designing, developing, and testing optical systems and components, balancing technical leadership with managerial duties.
- Lead the optical systems engineering team within a multidisciplinary engineering function, partnering with hardware (mechanical, electrical) and software engineering to design, build, and field optical instruments and and clinical devices.
- Operate as an integral part of Alcon’s Advanced Optics Technologies (AOT) group, connecting integrated optical systems engineering with AOT capabilities in optical design, metrology, vision science, and advanced analysis.
- Enable next-generation intraocular lens (IOL) and contact lens (CL) innovation by developing reusable optical instruments, metrology platforms, test methods, and clinical evaluation technologies.
- Serve as the technical authority for optical system design, tolerancing, analysis, build, and qualification across a portfolio that ranges from early-stage R&D test beds to GxP systems used in manufacturing and clinical studies.
- Operate as a player-coach: approximately 60 to 70% leading, directing, and developing the team, and 30 to 40% hands-on technical contribution on the most critical design and analysis work.
- Bachelor’s Degree
- High school + 15 yrs
- Assoc. + 11 yrs
- M.S. + 4 yrs
- PhD + 3 yrs
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