Senior Optical Engineer, DOT Hardware

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

As a Senior Optical Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. You will work closely with an internal interdisciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, and test. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. A day in the life The Senior Optical Engineer will work closely with a team of optical, mechanical, electrical and software engineers engaged in the design of innovative consumer products. You will have opportunity to be hands-on, manufacturing and validating your designs on-site, in real time. You’ll tackle challenging, novel situations every day and have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving problems that haven't been solved at scale before. Along the way, you will learn a lot, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Optical Engineering, Optical Sciences, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• 7+ years of experience in consumer electronics as an optical engineer working on display light engines and design, fabrication, characterization of diffractive optical elements
• 7+ years of experience in optical simulation, metrology, and testing to verify component, assembly and system level performance
• Experienced in at least one of the following modelling software packages: LightTools, Zemax, CODE V, FRED, TracePro, SPEOS, etc.

Nice To Haves

• Master's or Doctoral degree in Optical Engineering, Optical Sciences, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• Experience in MATLAB programming
• Proficiency in at least one of the following CAD packages: Creo or SolidWorks
• Experience with design and development of optical systems requiring a combination of illumination, imaging, stray light mitigation, radiometry/photometry, and holographic/diffractive optics
• Experience with semi-conductor fabrication and lithography process
• Experience working with international, cross-functional teams
• Experience in mass production of optical devices
• Hands-on experience with optics component characterization and product integration
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Work with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to develop high level system architectures, and define subsystem and component level requirements.
• Develop, design, model, fabricate, and test optical components, diffractive elements, and imaging systems.
• Work with component engineering and product engineering teams to provide rapid prototyping and characterization of optical systems.
• Using a combination of modeling and laboratory data collection, validate the capability of proposed optical architectures across variations in design and manufacturing methods, and where possible drive performance advances.
• Work with external vendors, suppliers, and contract manufactures to broaden and optimize design and manufacturing space.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees