Amazon Optical Engineer OPD Hardware 

United States, Arizona, Tucson 

778458076

As an 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.Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
• 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.
• Collaborate with component and product engineering teams to provide rapid prototyping and characterization of components and 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.Tucson, AZ, USA

- • BS degree in Optical Engineering, Optical Sciences, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related field
- • 2+ years’ relevant work experience
- • Experience in optical design using one or more standard optical design software
- • Hands-on experience in laboratory work
- • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- • Advanced degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related field
- • Experience working with, characterizing and testing photopolymer materials
- • Experience with design and fabrication of Volume Bragg Grating
- • Experience with optical metrology tools material characterization tools such as interferometers, spectrometers, ellipsometer, and other standard image quality testing tools
- • Experience with semi-conductor fabrication and lithography process
- • Experience working in a clean room environment
- • Experience working, communicating, and collaborating in a cross-functional team environment
- • Self-motivated and self-directed individual, with little supervision necessary