Optical Design Engineer - Biophotonics

Job description

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Dynamic, smart people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with all Apple Hardware products. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. Join us to help deliver the next groundbreaking Apple product. Do you love working on challenges that no one has solved yet? As a member of our dynamic group, you will have the unrivaled and rewarding opportunity to craft upcoming products that will delight and inspire millions of Apple's customers every single day. Description In this Optical Design Engineer role, you will leverage your experience in designing and tolerancing optical systems to lead efforts to design and manufacture ultra-compact, high-precision micro-optical systems. You will start out with novel optics design concepts and turn them into optical systems optimized for mass production. Responsibilities: Design, simulate, and analyze complex, ultra-compact free-space optical systems Utilize your skills in optical design and simulation to propose optics designs, tolerance budgets, as well as testing and qualification approaches and methods Contribute to the design, implementation, and test of novel technology prove-of-concept devices and prototypes Work in a team and contribute to the development of next generation optics and photonics devices Preferred Qualifications 10+ years of relevant industry experience MS or PhD degree in Optics, Physics, EE or a related field Familiarity with the design, simulation, optimization, sensitivity and tolerance analysis of complex free space optical systems, with a preference for high-precision micro-optical system design experience Experience designing incoherent and coherent optical systems Experience with the design of optics systems for sensing or metrology applications. Experience designing optics for manufacturability and specifying optical components for manufacturing Experience in one or more of the following areas: stray light analysis, physical optics, or coherent optical effects The…