Development Engineer Sensor Technology with a Focus on High Precision Position Measurements (m/f/x)

zeissgroup; Oberkochen; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ZEISS is seeking a skilled engineer to take technical responsibility for high-precision sensor systems across the full lifecycle, from development to series products. You will drive design verification, manufacturability, and risk management while coordinating across mechanics, electronics, control engineering, and software.

Fluent in German and English, you bring a university degree in mechatronics or related field, independent working style, and willingness to travel domestically and

Qualifications

• Excellent university degree in mechatronics or related field.
• Strong knowledge of actuation, sensor tech, electronics, and control engineering.
• Independent, systematic working style with strong organizational skills.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Technical responsibility for high-precision sensor systems across development to series.
• Advance sensor systems focusing on design verification, manufacturability, integrability, and risk.
• Coordinate and integrate sensor tech with mechanics, electronics, and software.
• Ensure quality, performance and delivery in collaboration with production and suppliers.
• Perform requirements engineering with stakeholders.
• Manage suppliers and evaluate development/ manufacturing processes.

Skills

Mechatronics

Sensor technology

Optical sensors development

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Team spirit

Education

Mechatronics / Mechanical Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Engineering Cybernetics

Job description

Your Role

Around 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are manufactured using ZEISS technologies. As the core component of every electronically controlled system, they have become an indispensable part of our everyday lives, whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With highly precise lithography optics, photomask systems and solutions for process control, ZEISS enables the production of increasingly smaller, more powerful, and energy-efficient microchips, thereby playing a decisive role in shaping the age of micro- and nanoelectronics through its innovations.

• Technical responsibility for high precision sensor systems throughout the entire product lifecycle, from development to series products
• Further development of sensor systems with a focus on design verification, manufacturability, integrability, and risk management
• Coordination and integration of sensor technology with adjacent disciplines such as mechanics, sensor technology, electronics, control engineering, and software
• Ensuring quality, performance and delivery capability in close collaboration with production, suppliers and system development
• Requirements engineering in close contact with relevant stakeholders
• Technical supplier management and further development of suppliers, as well as evaluation of development and manufacturing processes
• Presentation of the assigned topics to internal and external customers

Your Profile

• Excellent university degree in mechatronics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, engineering cybernetics, or a comparable field; initial professional experience and/or a PhD are desirable
• Strong knowledge of relevant mechatronics disciplines (actuation, sensor technology, electronics, control engineering, dynamics, thermal engineering)
• Proven experience in the development, characterization, and application of optical sensors, ideally in high precision positioning or optical systems
• Independent and systematic way of working as well as excellent organizational and communication skills
• Team spirit, assertiveness, and a high level of commitment and motivation
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally
• Fluent in German and English, both written and spoken

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Ramazan Azgin