Senior Principal Optical Engineer

Primary Duties & Responsibilities


* Conduct all activities in a manner consistent with Coherent' s corporate values and Code of Conduct.


* Provide professional technical support to internal departments, sales and marketing teams worldwide, and customers as needed.


* Introduce and help develop efficient and improved methods for optical system assembly and inspection as needed.


* Involved directly with new product development projects incorporating optical, electrical, mechanical, software and system integration engineering functions.


* Ensure meeting project schedule and timelines and milestones, and the completion of complex cross-disciplinary activities within project team.


* Conduct and well manage design documents, ECR/ECO, design change implementation in new product release process.


* Communicates project status and progresses to management as appropriate, including recommendations on resources, process development, and product improvement and management.


* Individual contributor on the project team in addition to project management responsibilities.


* Keep abreast of customer needs and new competitive products, assessing the related impact on company projects/products development plans.


* Identify, select, and implement new development, component, manufacturing and/or testing technologies.


* Maintain technical relationships with key suppliers, as needed.

Education & Experience


* MS or Ph.

D in Optics, Optical Engineering, Opto-mechanical instrumentation.

Advanced education qualifications would be a plus.

Candidates with suitable hands-on experience with a BS degree will be considered in exceptional circumstances.



* 10+ years' experience in design, simulation, testing, and inspection of fiber optics, optical imaging systems, laser, illumination or other optical systems.


* A minimum of 5 years' experience in optical design and simulations for fiber optics, Si-Photonics, laser, life science, LiDAR, machine vision and other related industries.


* Experienced in working with customers and engineering team to effectively and successfully bring optical products through product life cycle from prototyping to volume production.

Skills



* Strong foundation in Si-Photonics, optics, physics, fiber optics, optical networks system.


* Proficient in using optical design tools - e.g.

OptiStudio, Code-V etc.

to do Optical system design, simulations, optimization, tolerance analysis.


* Hands-on experiences in optical design for industries within semiconductors, fiber optics, machine vision, and laser.

Experience of Co-package optical design and architecture is preferable.


* Knowledgeable and experienced with precision mechanical components and manufacturing, materials for fiber optical modules and assemblies.


* Able to utilize various equipment and to develop test plans for optical devices and optical components, assemblies and systems for engineering and p...