Optical Engineer
Optical Engineer
Munich
Germany
£125,000/year
Permanent
Laser & Optical Engineering
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- Investigating new technologies and engineering capabilities to address emerging business opportunities.
- Involvement in the research, design, development, and manufacturing phases of the product lifecycle.
- Ensuring the delivery of all optical design aspects of a product while collaborating closely with a multidisciplinary project team.
- Championing rigorous optical engineering approaches and delivering robust and cost-effective design solutions.
- Liaising with the customer community and external supply chain.
- Contributing to system architecture definition, lens design, analysis, and performance simulations.
- Supporting the integration and testing of systems.
- Working closely with manufacturing colleagues and suppliers to ensure high-quality product delivery.
- Using commercial tools such as ZEMAX OpticStudio, CodeV, or equivalent for modeling or designing imaging lenses and optical systems.
- Engaging with external stakeholders and demonstrating ownership of work packages within a project team environment.
- Experience in lens design and optical analysis.
- Knowledge of system alignment, integration, and test.
- Experience in an optical product development or optical applied research environment.
- Experience in the design, characterization, and manufacture of optical systems using appropriate commercial tools.
- An appreciation of the mechanical and electrical challenges associated with electro-optical systems.
- Previous ownership of an optical design that has been manufactured (in one-off or volume production).
- Advanced understanding of classical optics principles.
- Experience with optical design of SWIR or MIR optical systems.
- Experience with technical proposal writing, project budgeting, and team leadership.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Essential: Master’s degree in a related field (e.g., Physics/Photonics/Mathematics).
- Desirable: PhD with significant applied optical content.
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Oliver Stewart
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