Optical Engineer in Basildon, Essex

Optical Engineer

Basildon

Paying up to £56p/h (Umbrella)

Responsibilities:

• Deliver support to the research, design, development, and manufacture phases of the product lifecycle.
• Contribute to system architecture definition, specifies and develops lens design.
• Undertake analyses and performance simulations for Optical solutions.
• Support integration and Test of Optical Systems.
• Deliver solutions that consider Design for Manufacture, Assembly and Test.
• Liaise with the customer community and have regular interactions with the external supply chain.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary IPT.
• Design and implementation of passive and/or active athermalisation IR imaging lenses.

Experience required:

• Design of optical solutions within harsh environments i.e. high/low temperature, abrasive environments (rain, hail), etc.
• Experience of lens systems design within the Infrared spectrum.
• Extensive experience in an Optical Engineering related field, with a good grounding in classical imaging optics principles is required.
• Modelling/designing lens solutions using industry-standard tools (preferably OpticStudio / Zemax).
• Proven knowledge of optical materials and optical coatings for IR Systems.
• Experience in steered IR imaging systems.