Senior Optical Architect—Lithography Systems

Lace Lithography; Norway; On-site; NOK 1,400,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity through incentive plan

Gym allowance

Team lunches

Social events

Annual off-site

Relocation & immigration support

Job summary

Lace Lithography is seeking an Architect / Senior Optical Engineer to lead optical architecture and design in high-end lithography systems. Based in Barcelona or Bergen, you will work with physicists, mechanical, vacuum, controls, electronics, software and systems engineers across Lace’s departments.

You will own subsystems through lifecycle, translate objectives into specs and budgets, industrialize designs for manufacturing, and lead integration, verification and field support with a global

Qualifications

• University degree in physics or optical engineering-related field.
• 10+ years experience developing complex and precision optical systems in a high-tech environment, from first principles to concept, industrialization and high-volume manufacturing, including ownership of system architecture, function or domain
• Expert knowledge in Requirements Engineering, System Engineering and Product development process
• Hands on as well as conceptual thinking, ability to deep dive and zoom out to system level
• Stakeholder management, ability to explain, trade-off and defend complex engineering decisions and choices
• Knowledge of Zemax, Code V, or similar SW

Responsibilities

• Own optical and optomechanical subsystems throughout their lifecycle—from requirements and architecture to production release and field support.
• Translate system objectives into optical specifications, interfaces, performance budgets and verification criteria.
• Lead the development of robust optomechanical solutions.
• Industrialize the design for manufacturing.
• Lead optical integration, verification and acceptance testing at subsystem and complete-tool level.
• Troubleshoot performance, yield and reliability problems using structured root-cause analysis.
• Maintain production documentation, including drawings, BOMs, interface definitions, alignment procedures, test specifications and change records.
• Collaborate with atomic physicists, mechanical, vacuum, controls, electronics, software and systems engineers across Lace’s departments.
• Manage technical relationships with optical-component suppliers and external development partners.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, risk management, mentoring and long-term optical technology roadmaps.
• Ensure compliance with engineering standards and semiconductor-equipment requirements such as SEMI S2.

Skills

Requirements Engineering

System Engineering

Product development process

System-level thinking

Stakeholder management

Zemax / Code V

Education

University degree in physics or optical engineering-related field

Tools

Zemax

Code V

Job description

Lace Lithography is seeking an Architect / Senior Optical Engineer to lead optical architecture and design in high-end lithography systems. Based in Barcelona or Bergen, you will work with physicists, mechanical, vacuum, controls, electronics, software and systems engineers across Lace’s departments.

You will own subsystems through lifecycle, translate objectives into specs and budgets, industrialize designs for manufacturing, and lead integration, verification and field support with a global