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SalaryOptical Engineer
Rochester, Kent - 3 days on site
50,000 - 60,000
Benefits
- 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
- Pension contributions (total 10% - 14%)
- Company shares
- Career development - assistance gaining professional accreditations and qualifications
What the role of the Optical Engineer entails:
Some of the main duties of the Optical Engineer will include:
- Optical system requirements trade-off analysis to support system architecture decisions
- Detailed design of optical sub-systems that operate as part of an overall integrated solution including: miniature projector systems based on COTs display devices, relay lens assemblies, free-form surface definition and spectrally selective reflective visors and combiners
- Assembly and formal photometric testing of prototype and production standard optical systems, including testing individual optical elements through to complete augmented reality systems
- Generation of detailed optical sub-system specifications to allow out-sourcing of assemblies to optical subcontractors
- Working within multidisciplinary teams to ensure that overall systems designs are consistent with optical design constraints
What experience you need to be the successful Optical Engineer:
Essential:
- Physics/Science/Optics based Degree
- Experience in the application of optical design tools for geometric ray tracing of imaging or illumination optics, for example projection, camera or microscope lens assemblies
- Experience with the use of optics modelling tools such as ZEMAX (sequential and non-sequential), CodeV, FRED, TracePro
Desirable:
- Experience in specification of optical materials, optical processes and tolerances associated with series manufacture
- Experience in photometric measurement systems to verify the performance of manufactured designs
- Experience in assembly and test of prototype optical systems
- Experience with the use of Matlab and Labview
This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Optical Engineer to progress their career. If you are interested please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!
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