Member of Technical Staff, Optical Design Engineer

Coherent Aerospace & Defense is a leading provider of cutting-edge optical technologies dedicated to enhancing various industries including aerospace, defense and scientific research. Our commitment to innovation and quality has positioned us as a global leader in the field of optical systems design. We are seeking a talented and experienced Member of Technical Staff, Optical Design Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to the development of our advanced optical solutions.

The Optical Design Engineer's function is to plan, design, analyze, communicate, and execute the optical design for high performance optical assemblies, and to determine the following:  (1) compliant preliminary and final optical designs, (2) optical sensitivity and tolerance analysis in coordination with mechanical and integration & test engineering, (3) document optical prescription and optical layout, (4) support fabrication, assembly, integration and test for 100% On-Time Delivery on program and (5) investigate, identify, and resolve engineering problems involved in the manufacturing of Coherent Aerospace and Defense (Coherent A&D) products and provide a smooth transition into routine production.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Contributes to formulation of department goals and organizational objectives.  
• Demonstrates ability to understand both technical and business excellence.  
• Sets exemplary example through promotion of commitment, energy, personal productivity, and mentoring; generates and drives individual and team enthusiasm, motivation, commitment, productivity, sense of urgency, and sense of task/project ownership. 
• Develops a cohesive work group; fosters commitment and enthusiasm; promotes cooperation and coordination between peer departments by working across the organization to effectively complete programs and projects on time.
• Represents area of professional and/or technical expertise internally and externally. May supervise the activities of others. Regularly and effectively shares and transfers knowledge and expertise. 
• Expresses ideas accurately and succinctly in oral and written form; effectively listens and assimilates; presents organized information in a timely fashion. 
• Reviews other team members’ work; write and review engineering reports; participates in proposal writing; ability to facilitate complex group discussions; can organize and direct effective meetings as required. 
• Directs, leads, coordinates and mentors optical design and analysis activities for Coherent A&D development program. 
• Works under consultative direction to achieve goals and objectives. 
• Responsible for requirements evaluation, trade studies, preliminary and final designs, and product manufacturability on assigned projects; determines methods and procedures on new assignments independently, and coordinates activities of other personnel; develops and releases optical documentation, and incorporates design input from mechanical engineering, integration and test engineering, and operations personnel. 
• Leads quotation process by reviewing customer drawings and internal quotations; lays out conceptual optical designs; works concurrently with integration and test engineers to ensure product concepts and designs are manufacturable and designed for test using existing Coherent processes; identifies technical risk and requirements compliance issues that require either exceptions or development activities. 
• Leads resolution efforts on technical issues as they arise during manufacturing, integration, and testing with assistance as required from project engineering, integration and test engineering, quality engineering, and operations personnel; identifies root causes of optical related manufacturing, integration, and test problems using analytical techniques; provides clear and concise corrective action reports. 
• Exercises wide latitude to solve high level problems while developing new processes to address future issues. 
• Serves as subject matter expert for the organization. 
• Collaborates with quality engineering on the development of qualification and acceptance test procedures.
• Partners with program management with technical advice and direction on assigned programs. 
• Responsible for identification of technical scope related to proposal budgeted. 
• Adheres to program financial goals and provides financial estimates and status updates to program management.  
• Fully supports program technical expectation and due dates for engineering on-time delivery. 
• Partners with business development activities through participation in customer presentations and proposal preparation. 
• Ability to lead the technical section of a multi-volume proposal. 
• Partners with advanced manufacturing develop