Optical & System Designer - Illumination (m/f/x)

zeissgroup; Oberkochen; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

ZEISS is seeking a highly motivated optics design professional to design optics for new products, optimize functionality, and ensure high optical performance. You will work analytically and numerically, collaborating with mechanics and electronics teams to translate complex, interdisciplinary requirements into robust designs.

You bring a Master’s degree or PhD in physics or optics, with hands-on experience in optical system design, ray tracing, and optimizer tools.

Qualifikationen

• Master's degree or PhD in Physics, Optics, Photonics, or related field.
• Experience in academia or industry is a plus but not required.
• Basic knowledge of scientific programming (Matlab, Python).
• Experience designing optical systems with ray-tracing and optimizers; tool is secondary.

Aufgaben

• Design optics for new products or generations and optimize functionality.
• Ensure optical performance analytically, numerically, and in collaboration with mechanics, electronics, and other optics teams.
• Translate interdisciplinary requirements into robust optics and system designs.
• Bring initiative and challenge existing approaches to rethink solutions.

Kenntnisse

Optical design

Ray tracing

Matlab

Python

AI methods

Communication

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Ausbildung

Master's degree

PhD (preferred)

Tools

Zemax/OpticStudio

CodeV

Jobbeschreibung

Enabler for smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchipsWorking for tomorrow today.

Your Role

You design optics for new products or generations, optimize their functionality, and ensure the optical performance of our systems-analytically, numerically, and in close collaboration with colleagues from mechanics, electronics, and other optics-design teams.

As a team member, you translate complex, interdisciplinary requirements-thermal influences, packaging constraints, and manufacturing limits-into robust optics and system designs.

You bring initiative, challenge existing approaches, and actively contribute to continually rethinking solutions.

Your Profile

• Completed science-based Master's degree or PhD (preferably Physics, Optics, Photonics, or related fields)
• Professional experience in academia or industry (e.g., as a Postdoc) is a plus but not required
• Basic knowledge of scientific programming (e.g., Matlab, Python)
• Experience in designing optical systems, both imaging and non-imaging optics, with ray-tracing methods and automated optimizers - the specific tool is secondary (e.g., Zemax/OpticStudio, CodeV, etc.)
• Strong natural science curiosity and willingness to independently dive deep into the physics of lithography systems and their modeling
• Experience with AI methods (e.g., for optimization or data analysis) is welcome but not required
• Communication strength: you can explain complex technical concepts to colleagues from other disciplines
• Enjoyment of self-motivated, structured work and learning in an interdisciplinary team

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:Matthias Sonnentag