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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in optical design, camera development, and optical performance characterization, with a strong focus on automotive applications. Proficient in developing and implementing optical test strategies and methodologies while collaborating across cross-functional teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Optical Design and DevelopmentCMOS Image Sensor OptimizationOptical Performance CharacterizationAutomated Test Method DevelopmentCross-Disciplinary Collaboration
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Hard Skills
Optical DesignOptical Performance CharacterizationImage-Quality MetricsOptical TolerancingData AnalysisTest AutomationCamera DevelopmentOptical TestingImage-Signal BehaviorOptical Architecture Development
Soft Skills
Expert Communication SkillsProblem DiagnosisMentoringCollaborationContinuous Improvement
Tools & Technologies
Zemax OpticStudioCODE VPythonMATLABLabVIEWOptical Laboratory InstrumentsMicrosoft OfficeRequirements Management ToolsConfiguration Management ToolsProject Monitoring Tools
Industry Keywords
Automotive Camera DevelopmentOptical EngineeringImaging ScienceEnvironmental and Durability ExpectationsHigh-Volume ManufacturingDesign-for-ManufactureOptical Measurement TechnologiesOptical Characterization MethodsCamera SystemsOptical-Mechanical Design
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAssemblyPython
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design, develop, characterize, validate, and provide technical support for automotive camera products
- Lead optical design and development activities, including requirements definition, component evaluation, implementation, testing, debugging, and design release
- Develop optical architectures and system-level specifications for lenses, CMOS imagers, illumination paths, filters, and camera systems
- Evaluate CMOS image sensors and optimize camera performance through imager configuration, register tuning, and quantitative image-quality assessment
- Develop or specify multi-element lenses for automotive near-field and far-field applications
- Perform optical tolerancing, sensitivity analysis, and design-tradeoff assessments
- Own optical performance requirements and support program milestones, design reviews, customer deliverables, and launch readiness
- Identify optical technical risks and define mitigation plans
- Develop, implement, validate, and improve optical test methods for lenses, image sensors, and camera systems
- Perform advanced optical characterization, including MTF, spatial resolution, distortion, relative illumination, color and spectral response, noise and dynamic range, flare, stray light, ghosting, veiling glare, and image quality
- Develop test specifications, procedures, acceptance criteria, correlation methods, measurement-system analyses, and reporting templates
- Design and automate optical test processes to improve throughput, repeatability, data quality, and laboratory-equipment utilization
- Analyze complex optical-performance issues, determine root causes, and recommend corrective actions
- Plan and execute validation activities across the product-development lifecycle while supporting multiple programs
- Evaluate emerging optical measurement technologies and characterization methods
- Interface with mechanical, electrical, hardware, software, systems, manufacturing, quality, and supplier teams
- Assess effects of packaging, assembly tolerances, thermal behavior, contamination, calibration, electronics, and software processing on optical performance
- Support manufacturing process development, assembly, end-of-line testing, calibration, yield improvement, and development/production measurement correlation
- Support customer escalations, field investigations, design-validation issues, and corrective-action activities
- Serve as a technical resource and subject-matter expert in camera optics, optical characterization, image-quality analysis, and test methodology
- Mentor engineers and technicians
- Drive continuous-improvement initiatives and provide data-based technical recommendations
- Contribute to optical technology roadmaps, lessons learned, standard methods, reusable tools, and knowledge transfer across global engineering teams
- Comply with company, customer, quality, environmental, health, safety, and data-protection policies
Requirements
What you’ll need- Master's degree in optical engineering, applied physics, electrical engineering, imaging science, or a related field
- Four to eight years of relevant experience in optical design, camera development, optical testing, image-quality engineering, or related serial-product development
- Automotive electronics or automotive camera development experience strongly preferred
- Experience independently executing complex optical engineering assignments and delivering practical, data-based results
- Experience specifying, designing, or evaluating visible-spectrum lenses and imaging systems
- Strong knowledge of CMOS image-sensor characteristics, camera tuning, image-signal behavior, and system-performance effects
- Competence in optical performance characterization and image-quality metrics, including MTF, distortion, relative illumination, flare, stray light, ghosting, color, noise, and dynamic range
- Experience developing optical test strategies, laboratory setups, automated measurements, analysis methods, and test specifications for complex camera systems
- Understanding of optical tolerancing, sensitivity analysis, measurement uncertainty, repeatability, reproducibility, and performance variation
- Cross-disciplinary understanding of optical-mechanical design, packaging, electrical design, software, image processing, thermal effects, manufacturing, assembly, and calibration
- Experience with high-volume, cost-sensitive camera design and manufacturing, design-for-manufacture, and production-test considerations
- Familiarity with automotive OEM camera requirements and environmental and durability expectations
- Ability to diagnose complex optical problems, identify root cause, and lead corrective actions using structured methods such as 8D
- Demonstrated innovation through patents, publications, test-method development, technical standards, reusable tools, or products brought to market
- Optical design and analysis tools such as Zemax OpticStudio and/or CODE V
- Camera and image-quality analysis tools, optical laboratory instruments, and optical-mechanical alignment setups
- Data analysis and test automation using engineering tools; Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW, or equivalent preferred
- Microsoft Office, with strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
- Working knowledge of requirements management, configuration management, and project monitoring tools
- Expert written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision and collaborate in a global, cross-functional environment
- Comprehensive knowledge of English
- Current and ongoing authorization to work in the United States; role is not eligible for visa sponsorship
- Ability to perform normal computer and laboratory work and move around office, laboratory, and plant environments
- Domestic and international travel may be required
Benefits
Comp & perks- Engaging and dynamic work environment
- Support and resources for employee success
- Wide range of development prospects
- Global team environment
- Equal opportunity employer
- Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals
- New-hire, new-position, quality, environmental, and health-and-safety training
- AI-assisted screening process with applicant data kept securely within company systems