Optical Metrology Engineer — Precision Instrumentation

Corning Incorporated; Keene (NH); On-site; USD 95,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Pension plan

Health benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Corning Incorporated is seeking an experienced engineer to devise, build, and maintain instrumentation for ultra-precise optical components. You will design and qualify metrology equipment, specify optical test methods, and use advanced software to measure critical parameters in complex optical systems.

This role requires hands-on metrology experience and collaboration within cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates have 5–15 years in optical instrumentation, fluency in optical metrology

Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering required; Optics or Physics preferred.
• 5-15 years in designing instrumentation for testing precision optical components systems.
• Hands-on metrology laboratory experience required, as is industrial experience in optical metrology.
• Must be familiar with optical shop phase measuring interferometers.
• Ability to function on a product development team of multi-disciplinary engineers.
• Experience and understanding of geometrical optics and optical test methods.
• Strong presentation and technical writing skills to enable communication within the program team and with customers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multi-disciplined project teams to design, integrate, and qualify custom metrology equipment.
• Design (or specify for purchase) optical test methods and instrumentation to measure optical component parameters.
• Use metrology software to assess flatness, irregularity, radius of curvature, and other optical parameters.
• Read and interpret optical drawings containing tolerancing and ISO specifications.
• Analyze optical component surface maps using Zernike and asphere polynomials.
• Create and document metrology methods for transfer to manufacturing.
• Train manufacturing personnel to execute test and measurement tasks.

Skills

Metrology

Optical metrology

Interferometry

Engineering degree

Data analysis

Education

B.S. in Engineering

M.S. in Optics or Physics

Tools

Excel

Matlab

Python

Job description

Corning Incorporated is seeking an experienced engineer to devise, build, and maintain instrumentation for ultra-precise optical components. You will design and qualify metrology equipment, specify optical test methods, and use advanced software to measure critical parameters in complex optical systems.

This role requires hands-on metrology experience and collaboration within cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates have 5–15 years in optical instrumentation, fluency in optical metrology