Senior Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer

Anello Photonics • Santa Clara, CA

5h • Onsite

About The Position

Anello Photonics is a leading-edge technology company based in Santa Clara, CA, that has developed an integrated photonic system-on-chip technology for next-generation navigation. Their SIPHOG™ gyroscope, based on patented photonic integrated circuit technology, offers higher performance, smaller size and weight, and a fraction of the cost of traditional gyros. This technology enables reliable and accurate navigation and positioning across various autonomous applications. Anello is currently in mid-level volume manufacturing, shipping products to market-leading customers in segments such as Construction, Farming, Trucking, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, and National Security. This position will focus on their next-generation offering, which is in the R&D stage, fully funded, and has customers in place for high-volume production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree plus 10+ years of working experience in the field, or Master’s Degree and Ph.D. plus 7+ years of working experience in Mechanical and/or Optical Engineering.
• Experience with CAD package, preferably Solidworks, Ansys, including FEA (Zemax experience a plus).
• Solid knowledge of optical system, optical design and optical material.
• Good experience and design skillset with opto mechanical assemblies.
• Strong hands-on skill set on assembling, testing and troubleshooting capability with optical system.
• Good experience with optical element vendors and design house for new product development as well as ramping up volume production.
• Work effectively as a team player with other functional team members.
• Reliable and independent work style, highly accountable and responsible for the outputs.

Nice To Haves

• Zemax experience

Responsibilities

• Perform advanced design, tolerancing, and FEA analysis for strain, vibrational nodes, model analysis, thermal and shock analysis.
• Responsible for optical system design based on experimental and system modeling.
• Capable of analysis of key performance metrics and derive tolerance errors and mechanical tolerance analysis.
• Assemble, qualify, and debug new optical-mechanical module systems and subsystems, including light source, lens system and detection sensor.
• Develop optical tooling and fixture to assist high-precision alignment and assembling process.
• Establish optical subsystem build and qualification process and release reliable process to Manufacturing.
• Work with the Manufacturing department & supplier to support volume ramp and optical quality control.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree