Optical Design Engineer
About The Position
Coherent Corp. is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials, and networking components. We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program. It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity, and growth. Come Join Us!
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Optics, Physics, Material Science or equivalent
- Experience with designing, diagnosing, and implementing fiber optical systems
- Hands-on experience in troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve results independently and/or with a team
- Ability to recommend and implement product improvements.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Data analysis skills in Excel, Python, or other tool or choice
- Working knowledge of optical systems, fiber-optic components, devices, and associated hardware
- Extensive hands-on experience with optical design and testing
- Leadership and the ability to work highly independently with minimal guidance from supervisor on specific tasks.
- Creative, analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities
- Able to work and deliver on aggressive schedule.
- Self-starter, highly motivated, dedicated and teamwork oriented
- Ability to write basic scripts for modelling and data analysis
- Set a high standard of ethics, professionalism, leadership, and competency
- Ability to excel in a cross-organizational, cross cultural, global team environment.
Nice To Haves
- Expertise with OTDR or other optical metrology systems is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Build bench-top prototype systems and verify optical performance.
- Conduct optical design and verification for OTDR, OPS, OSA and other fiber-optic devices.
- Run optical verification testing to assess product feasibility and performance expectations including margining.
- Optimize optical designs of existing products to reduce product cost, improve performance, simplify processes, and improve manufacturing yield.
- Interact with suppliers on optical component specifications and sample procurement.
- Engage with cross-functional teams to fully define product performance specs.
- Provide technical support to Sales and Marketing.
- Troubleshoot and solve optical performance related issues in various product development phases.
- Recommend, devise, plan, and execute engineering studies and projects to solve problems discovered and/or as assigned.
- Determine, develop and implement new methods, technologies, and processes that improve performance, cost, or deliveries of existing products.
- Support the transfer of new products and processes to manufacturing.
- Generate innovative technical ideas and contribute to the Intellectual Property Portfolio.
- Explore new technologies for use in telecommunications and related industries.
- Keep abreast of and recommend new technologies with consideration of the applicability and viability to WSS markets.
- Support special projects as required.
- Report on projects and make recommendations to upper Management.
Benefits
- competitive compensation program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
