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What We Offer
Salary:
$138,000.00 - $190,000.00
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Location:
Santa Clara,CA
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- Optical Engineer to support the development of high-performance optical systems used in the semiconductor industry. The position requires participation in all aspects of the design cycle from specification development, design, supplier support, part verification, and integration. It also requires support for system alignment procedures and tooling development. The candidate should have a solid technical grasp of optical design and optical systems and have experience working in a product development environment.
Key Responsibilities
Be part of an engineering team to identify the scope, constraints and risks for design, fabrication, testing and volume production of advanced optical components for high performance optical systems.
Collaborate and communicate with suppliers during design of critical optical sub-assemblies.
Design and evaluate optical systems.
Develop alignment strategies and tooling.
Develop and maintain error budgets and define subsystem level requirements to be characterized and validated during the system alpha testing phase for current and future products.
Use customer and system requirements to derive design specifications for subsystems, modules, and components and provide input to design engineers throughout the design process.
Define and execute system test plans for prototype acceptance/qualification test of subsystems, modules, and components.
Support system MFG activities and support customer site teams to resolve critical issues during install, qualification, and production use.
Support escalations pertaining to manufacturing of optical modules and failure analysis of field return modules.
Defines experiments and determines the type of meaningful data required to support evaluation and technical decision
Executes complex system projects. Participates in module design and engineering. Takes active part in the design of complex modules / sub-modules. Qualifies complex systems
Functional Knowledge- Demonstrates depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized discipline or field
Business Expertise- Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services
Leadership- May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity
Problem Solving- Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions
Impact- Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies
Interpersonal Skills- Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view
- Additional Job Description
Lens design/analysis (CodeV, Zemax)
Statistical tolerancing
Non-sequential optical modeling for illumination and stray light analysis.
Optical alignment
Optical metrology methods
1st order optical layout
Image quality metrics
Radiometr
Additional Information
Time Type:
Full time
Employee Type:
Assignee / Regular
Travel:
Yes, 10% of the Time
Relocation Eligible:
No
The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.
For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.
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