Amazon Senior Optical Engineer 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

985932793

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.Key job 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.
A day in the life

- Master'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.