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Staff Systems Design Engineer
| Company | Zeiss |
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| Location | Dublin, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $152000 – $190000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Master’s, PhD |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Advanced degree desirable, Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or Computer Sciences and a minimum of five (5) years relevant work experience. A Ph.D. degree in one of the above areas would be desirable and substitute for possible lack of work experience.
- A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience required.
- Experience in image processing techniques and/or optical systems design two (2) plus years experience in system specification tradeoffs, development and integration of complex products, preferably medical electronic instruments.
- Demonstrated ability to work with Marketing and with other engineering groups in resolving design trade-offs.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to adapt quickly to change and work in a rapidly changing environment.
Responsibilities
- The Staff Systems Design Engineer will architect, design, specify and validate systems and subsystems; develop algorithms; and contribute to overall system architecture and design.
- Provide direction and leadership in system architecture and design.
- Work extensively with Marketing and Engineering to define, analyze, detail, and document specifications for tradeoffs, performance, features, controls, and operation of products into a form suitable for product implementation.
- Contribute to the designs as required; this may include development, verification, and validation of algorithms.
- Lead system integration of the specialist areas of a product.
- Plan and conduct in-depth reviews, testing and verifications/validation of product features.
- Critically analyze and verify system performance through simulation, test, and measurements.
- Specify and develop improvements or enhancements to existing products and champion implementation if necessary.
- Provide technical direction at systems level to other team members.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of or prior work experience in one or more of the following subject areas would be helpful: Medical electronic instruments, ophthalmic instruments, imaging or non-imaging optics, image processing, machine vision systems, human vision, modeling and simulation tools (MATLAB, Martrixx, Mathematica), PC applications and OEM.
