Senior Engineer
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Location: Connecticut
Job type: Permanent
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Sector: Manufacturing
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Position Description:
Zygo Corporation is seeking a highly talented opto-mechanical engineer with demonstrated experience in the design, development, analysis, implementation and test of high performance opto-mechanical systems. This engineer will be responsible for systems engineering, detailed design aspects, planning and execution of projects. Projects will be for new and existing products. This work requires the ability to understand and make decisions based upon fundamental engineering principles and is performed with minimal direction. This position exercises considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of assignments.
Responsibilities:
•Work with marketing to develop specifications for new products.
•Refine product specifications into complete sets of system requirements.
•Design and develop detailed solution options and select the optimal solution that meets the opto-mechanical subsystem and top-level system requirements.
•Perform analyses, simulations and experiments to verify that the chosen design will meet all system requirements.
•Define the baseline system architecture.
•Define requirements for each of the lower level components in the selected solution.
•Implement detailed designs.
•Generate and execute a test plan.
•Ensure commercially viable and manufacturable products.
•Other related duties as assigned
Position Requirements:
B.S. Engineer, Physics or related, plus 9 - 11 years of related industry experience
•Experience in opto-mechanical engineering required.
•Working knowledge of kinematic design principles, precision adjustment design, material selection, FEA (static stress and modal analysis), thermal analysis and design for manufacturability required.
•Experience in fiber optic component/modules and hermetic packaging preferred.
•Working knowledge of optical design and analysis preferred.
•Experience with SolidWorks and Cosmos preferred.
•Excellent written and oral communication skills required.
•Independent and team oriented work habits required.
•Must be willing to travel.
Physical Requirements:
Position requires frequent walking, sitting, lifting (up to 50 pounds), keyboarding, talking and occasional stooping.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
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