Optical Scientist Job Description
Optical scientist
provides fiber impact analysis on Optical transport network for planned fiber activities, provide fiber ID's and links to Fiber Operations-fiber Planning.
Optical Scientist Duties & Responsibilities
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Perform reverse engineering of thin film designs from optical metrology including spectrometry and ellipsometry
Advanced degree in Physics, Optics, Chemistry, Materials Science, or Engineering with 5 to 10 years of experience working in a laboratory / manufacturing industry
Demonstrated extensive knowledge and understanding of applied marine ecosystem acoustics and optics from application design, instrumentation needs, at sea operation, interpretation, synthesis and reporting/publication
In addition to supporting ongoing efforts, you will be expected to assist in developing new concepts, write project proposals with cost estimates, and develop new technologies for future products
Lead complex technology or product platform research and development projects creating value for the building envelope market
Act as thin film optical modeling expert demonstrating optical design trade-offs and potential solutions
Develop user friendly, well documented, custom software to solve optical problems efficiently and effectively for use by Guardian’s global coater community
Understand, communicate, and teach others about color perception in semi-transparent materials
Drive material and process development needs to ensure meeting optical design requirements
Develop solutions with high manufacturing robustness based on in-depth statistical analysis
Optical Scientist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Education for Optical Scientist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the optical scientist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Science, Sciences, Optics, Design, Technology, Chemistry, Technical
Skills for Optical Scientist
Desired skills for optical scientist include:
German is an advantage
Lasers
Optics
Polarization phenomenology
Ellipsometry
Fiber Bragg gratings
Fiber coating
Fluorescence
Interferometric sensing
Optical time-domain reflectometry
Desired experience for optical scientist includes:
Projects are likely to include development of new materials, process, and equipment for thin film deposition including vacuum sputtered processes
Generate and review thin film optical designs – provide optical design insight
Maintain a library of optical designs, solutions, and materials
Define technical strategy for project team
Develop and execute experimental project plan
Understand, develop, and implement more efficient and effective methods for optical coating quality control
Optical Scientist Examples
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of optical scientist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for optical scientist
- The ability and willingness to obtain a Certificate of Medical Fitness to a standard required for seagoing positions
- High level numerical and computing skills, demonstrated using software packages such as C++, MatLab, R or similar programming languages that were applied to analysis of large data sets and physics based models with statistical interpretations
- Demonstrated ability to work at sea and interact effectively with diverse external clients
- Demonstrated extensive knowledge and understanding of applied marine ecosystem acoustics and quantitative photographic/video from application design, instrumentation needs, at sea operation, interpretation, synthesis and reporting/publication
- The ability to work effectively as a key member of a multi-disciplinary, regionally dispersed research team, and, with a high degree of focus, carry out associated tasks under limited guidance, to achieve organisational goals, and, to self-organise and adapt to changing priorities and tasks
- A record of science innovation and creativity plus the ability & willingness to incorporate novel ideas and approaches into scientific investigations with demonstrated excellent record keeping and written and oral communication skills
- Defines and conducts critical tests to validate performance of designs to requirements manages appropriate aspects of critical supplier performance to ensure compliance to requirements
- Taking a ground up top down approach to designing optical systems that meets customer desired capabilities and work closely with a multi-disciplined team to help derive requirements
- Concept proposals for new products and feasibility demonstration
- Analysis of customer samples as sales as part of the sales process, creation of analytical reports and support of sale as required from an application standpoint
Qualifications for optical scientist
- Proficiency with modeling software packages such as VirtualLab, CODE V, FRED, GSolver and Zemax
- Hands on attitude with the ability to use structured problem-solving techniques to drive rapid issue closure
- Strong problem solving skills demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
- Experiences laser characterization and large quantity data statistics and analysis with tools such as JMP, Minitab, SPSS, R, Origin, is desired
- Minimum 2 years of experience (Job title commensurate with experience) in scientific R&D positions, either in industry or in a research group at a university
- Specialized skills such as numerical modeling and simulation tools for analyzing complex optical waveguides and fiber structures is a plus
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of optical scientist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for optical scientist
- Also work with vendors to specify and develop required laser technologies (lasers, beam delivery, metrology) for applications within the EUV source where appropriate
- Development of application requirements = APP Notes for marketing purposes and as sales support
- Application and instrument testing prior to new development releases
- Development / testing of new applications, if necessary in cooperation with customers, presentations internally and on external events (symposiums, workshops, conferences)
- Equipment demonstrations for customers, together with sales and channel partners in Europe
- Customer and / or sales trainings regarding applicative questions
- Installation Trainings and applicative support of new and existing customers and channel partners
- Travel both domestically and internationally is required
- Setting up the new laser communications laboratory
- Establishment of the free-space communications link between Ettlingen and Karlsruhe
Qualifications for optical scientist
- MS degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or a related technical discipline
- 6+ years of experience in optical simulation, metrology, testing and hands-on experience setting up optical equipment and optical measurement systems to verify component, assembly and system level performance
- Experimental and/or numerical simulation expertise required in specialty optical fibers for light propagation, generation and sensing
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to innovate both in the fields of specialty fibers and sensors
- Ability to develop novel specialty fiber products, within system and business constraints, outperforming worldwide competitors
- Demonstrated record of publication and oral presentation in top-tier journals and conferences
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Our growing company is looking for an optical scientist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for optical scientist
- Given the incumbent’s prior experience in telecommunications, more emphasis could be placed on implementation of the advanced multiplexing approaches, in particular orbital angular momentum multiplexing
- Immediately work within a team of technicians, engineers, and other scientists to design, model and help characterize prototype systems
- Serve as inventor and core team member from concept development, proof of principle experimentation, prototype creation, and technology transfer to into New Product Development
- Use your advanced optical engineering knowledge by working on exciting R&D projects with global teams
- Refine and expand your engineering skills in a team-based culture by working with innovative people, technologies, and products
- Partner with local and global engineering leaders to establish optical labs & characterization facilities
- Provide a resource of high-level technical consulting ability related to industrial applications
- Collect and develop information in the form of sales tools (value sell documents, application notes, quick reference sale notes)
- Develop test plans and conduct and/or coordinate tests to determine the performance of XOS products as it relates to a) the products’ end-use applications, b) comparisons to alternative / competitive techniques
- Compile results of these tests and generate application notes, provide technical support for generation of product literature and where appropriate issue and present scientific papers
Qualifications for optical scientist
- Must be self-motivated and self-directed to be an effective team member
- Strong interpersonal skills to be able to work with a cross-functional team
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to develop project plans and accomplish goals
- The ideal candidate will have 8+ total years of experience with optical engineering and/or device physics, with significant non-academic experience developing systems based on new technology
- Experience with microwave photonics, image analysis, and machine learning is preferred
- Organized and systematic in designing and conducting experimental research
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of optical scientist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for optical scientist
- Respond to all types of customer technical inquiries in the application of the product(s)
- Attend sales conferences and trade shows as needed
- Assist with technical input in the development of new products
- Demonstrated expertise in design and development of leading edge optical sensor technologies and products
- Originates or contributes to the development of new concepts
- Utilizes knowledge of principles, investigates & evaluates tools and practices and provides business directions based on them
- Experience working with key customers to shape and evolve their requirements
- Anticipates technology trends and forecasts business potential
- Experience managing multidisciplinary project teams
- Performs leadership role in Technology Watch and Technology Evaluation activities
Qualifications for optical scientist
- Must have excellent written and verbal skills and an open attitude for continuous improvement
- Ability to perform under stress and meet guidelines, work cooperatively and respectfully with others and contribute in a cross-functional development team
- Expertise in optical sensor system design, physics based modeling and knowledge of fabrication of optical devices and/or vendor methodologies
- Proficiency with test automation tools using Labview, Matlab, Python or Mathematica
- Proven record of innovative research via publications or patents
- Experience with microfabrication technology
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an optical scientist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for optical scientist
- Conceive, design, build and develop prototype high power pulsed laser amplification, metrology and delivery systems
- Troubleshoot issues with laser and optical systems
- Plan, develop and execute system and subsystem performance tests, analyze test results and extract actionable knowledge on optical system design
- Document learning and communicate knowledge to product development teams to guide product improvement and development
- Provide product design guidelines, performance requirements and procedures to product teams
- Troubleshoot issues with laser and optical systems to identify design issues and constraints
- Create innovations and technical breakthroughs with major potential business impact, drive them to business successes
- Transfer results to the Lighting businesses and takes care of proper landing of the results, including proper reporting to disseminate results
- Actively explore developments outside Signify in the field of optical design and uses these to improve our results
- Drive IP creation
Qualifications for optical scientist
- Identify OLED and LCD display film needs and opportunities through discussion with customers, sales, technical and marketing personnel
- Understand and contribute to complex displays market maps paired with customer film functionality requirements
- Translate market needs and industry trends into multigenerational plans for optical polymer research
- Develop technology landscapes of compensation film intellectual property
- Work with subject matter experts in marketing, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and optical physics to correlate polymer properties to fitness-for-use requirements
- Be well versed in optical polymer coating, casting, stretching and transfer dynamics and related intellectual property landscapes