Optical Metrology Engineer

Corning•Village of Fairport, NY

26d•Onsite

About The Position

Corning is a world leader in materials science, known for its innovation in glass, ceramics, and related materials. The company's technologies span various markets, including life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, automotive, and solar. This role focuses on developing and maintaining instrumentation and test methods for ultra-precise optical components and assemblies.

Requirements

B.S. in Engineering required; Optics or Physics preferred.
2-5 years in designing instrumentation for testing precision optical components systems.
Hands-on metrology laboratory experience required.
Industrial experience in optical metrology.
Must be familiar with optical shop phase measuring interferometers.
Ability to function on a product development team of multi-disciplinary engineers.
Experience and understanding of geometrical optics and optical test methods.
Must have strong presentation and technical writing skills to enable communication within the program team and with internal and external customers.
Proficiency in Excel is required.

Nice To Haves

M.S. in Optics or Physics
Experience with interferometry, wavefront sensing, deflectometry, profilometry, precision tooling, polarization/polarimetry, etc
Experience with aspheric measurement methods (sub-aperture stitching, null testing, CGH design and implementation, etc) a plus.
Familiarity with optical and stylus profilometry, roughness measurement, microscopy.
Familiarity with gauge study and measurement uncertainty assessment.
Matlab, Python, or other analytical software applications is desired.
Proficiency with phase measuring software from Zygo, 4D, Apre, QED a plus.

Responsibilities

Devise, build, and maintain instrumentation and comprehensive test methods to measure and analyze ultra-precise optical components and assemblies.
Collaborate with multi-disciplined project teams to design, integrate, and qualify custom metrology equipment.
Design (or specify for purchase) optical test methods and instrumentation to measure various parameters of optical components used in complex optical systems for imaging, non-imaging and metrology systems.
Use a wide array of in-house and commercial metrology and software to assess flatness, irregularity, radius of curvature, center thickness, mid-spatial frequency, PSD, wedge or prism angles, and other optical component parameters.
Read and interpret optical drawings containing optical tolerancing and ISO specifications.
Analyze optical component surface maps to assess complex shapes using Zernike and asphere polynomials.
Create and document metrology methods and test procedures for transfer to manufacturing.
Train manufacturing personnel to execute test and measurement tasks.