Senior Optical Design Engineer – Imaging & Lenses

Corning, Inc.; Village of Fairport (NY); On-site; USD 113,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentives

Pension plan

Health benefits

Recognition program

Job summary

Corning Advanced Optics seeks an experienced optical design engineer to join our team. You will design, analyze, tolerancing, and build complex optical systems, working in multidisciplinary teams from concept development through hardware delivery.

You will translate customer requirements into concrete specifications, develop lens design forms, and collaborate with metrology and controls engineers to drive production-ready optics. A strong CODE V background is essential.

Qualifications

• BS, MS or PhD in Optics/Optical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in optical design engineering across full life cycle.
• Proficiency with commercial optical design software; CODE V preferred.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into specs for optical systems.
• Understanding of manufacturing strategies, tolerancing and fabrication methods.
• Familiarity with performance metrics like wavefront, distortion, transmission.
• Ability to communicate concepts and tradeoffs to a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Participate in early-stage discussions with customers and translate requirements into specs.
• Develop lens designs for complex optical systems that meet specs.
• Create manufacturing tolerances and build strategies using sensitivity software.
• Collaborate with metrology and controls engineers on test benches and validation.
• Provide optical design support from prototype to production.
• Analyze metrics to understand system performance.
• Plan and implement design processes to transfer to production.

Skills

Optical design

Requirements distillation

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Customer communication

Tolerancing analysis

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Optics or Optical Engineering

Tools

CODE V

Zemax

LightTools

FRED

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Corning Advanced Optics seeks an experienced optical design engineer to join our team. You will design, analyze, tolerancing, and build complex optical systems, working in multidisciplinary teams from concept development through hardware delivery.

You will translate customer requirements into concrete specifications, develop lens design forms, and collaborate with metrology and controls engineers to drive production-ready optics. A strong CODE V background is essential.