A&E Design Engineer
Centerline
Lead AR/VR Opto-Mechanical Engineer
Red 6
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $165,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Assembly
About the role
- Lead opto-mechanical system design from concept to production, including layout, packaging, and environmental robustness.
- Integrate optical elements (lenses, prisms, mirrors, light guides, and sensors) into precision mechanical assemblies.
- Collaborate with optical, electrical, and industrial design teams to ensure tight integration of components into compact and efficient systems.
- Conduct thermal, structural, and optical alignment tolerance analyses to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
- Develop mechanical and alignment strategies to support optical calibration procedures during both prototyping and production stages.
- Design for manufacturability and alignment tolerance stack-up, ensuring designs can be efficiently fabricated, assembled, and calibrated.
- Work with systems and software teams to understand calibration requirements and enable mechanical features that support automated or manual optical calibration.
- Utilize advanced materials and processes suitable for high-precision, lightweight, and ruggedized optical assemblies.
- Oversee prototyping, testing, and iteration cycles to validate design choices, calibration alignment, and system performance.
- Work closely with contract manufacturers and suppliers to ensure design intent, including calibration-friendly features, is maintained through production.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in opto-mechanical product development, preferably in AR/VR, aerospace, or consumer electronics.
- Demonstrated experience in the design of precision opto-mechanical assemblies and alignment techniques.
- Familiarity with calibration of optical systems, including mechanical constraints and fixture design to support calibration repeatability.
- Knowledge of metrology tools and techniques for measuring optical and mechanical components, including interferometry and coordinate measuring machines (CMM).
- Experience in setting up and maintaining calibration equipment to ensure ongoing accuracy.
- Proficiency in aligning optical components such as lenses, waveguides, and sensors to meet stringent optical performance criteria.
- Proficiency with CAD software such as SolidWorks (preferred) or equivalent; experience with FEA and tolerance analysis tools.
- Strong understanding of optical principles, geometric optics, and mechanical packaging of optical systems.
- Experience in the design and integration of components such as cameras, lenses, sensors, prisms, and light guides.
- Familiarity with thermal management, structural optimization, and maintaining optical alignment through mechanical stress.
- Skilled in GD&T and creating detailed engineering drawings for precision parts.
- Knowledge of design for manufacturing (DFM), design for assembly (DFA), and reliability principles.
- This position may require a security clearance; to obtain clearance, employees must show proof of U.S. Citizenship.
- Willingness and ability to work on site in Denver.
