Amazon · 1 week ago
Senior Optical Engineer, DOT Hardware
Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$129K/yr - $214K/yr
7+ years expAmazon is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior Optical Engineer to engage with a cross-disciplinary team in designing innovative consumer products. The role involves developing system architectures, designing optical components, and collaborating with various engineering teams to validate and optimize optical systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor'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
Preferred
Master's or Doctoral degree in Optical Engineering, Optical Sciences, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related field
Experience in MATLAB programming
Proficiency in at least one of the following CAD packages: Creo or SolidWorks
Experience with design and development of optical systems requiring a combination of illumination, imaging, stray light mitigation, radiometry/photometry, and holographic/diffractive optics
Experience with semi-conductor fabrication and lithography process
Experience working with international, cross-functional teams
Experience in mass production of optical devices
Hands-on experience with optics component characterization and product integration
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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