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Senior Optical Engineer
| Company | KLA |
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| Location | Milpitas, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $114100 – $194000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Optical design in imaging and illumination systems delivering in-spec performance, cost and manufacturability on time.
- Statistical optical component and alignment tolerancing
- Able to create specs for precision opto-mechanical assemblies
- Proficiency in optical modeling software such as Code V or Zemax or LightTools
- Non-sequential ray tracing using Light Tools to model high precision optics surface scattering, conduct stray light analysis
- Optical module and system build, alignment and debugging
- Test stand design and build: concept, error budget, realization
- Knowledge with diverse optical devices and components such as objectives, collimator, CGH, and relay optics, fibers, cameras, lasers and detectors
- Strong understanding in optics and physics enabling to analyze complex optical phenomena
- Proficiency in computing language such as Matlab, Python
Responsibilities
- Investigate different design options and finding the best option through evaluating tolerances, manufacturability, light budgets and other trade-offs.
- Translate system or subsystem requirements into optical design and manufacturing requirements.
- Perform thorough tolerancing analysis to have a complete system design with full consideration of alignment process and metrology, system calibrations and opto-mech design limitations by working with other groups (systems, ME).
- Design and implement optical alignment and metrology process, test/tooling fixtures to achieve targeted optical performance.
- Follows complete design process, including design reviews, part procurement from vendors, testing, integration, and release.
- Investigate issues from customers or manufacturing and provide option design solution or work-around.
- Propose optical design improvements to enhance a tool performance such as SNR or throughput or manufacturability.
- Debug, and solving of any optical problems that arise with the system.
Preferred Qualifications
- Desired to have three to five years of professional experience in high end optical system development. Microscope experience is bonus.
- Experience in high precision optical tools’ manufacturing is bonus, not mandatory.
