Senior Systems Engineer - Medical Imaging & Vision AI

alcon; Lake Forest (IL); On-site; USD 103,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Alcon is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to contribute to the development of next-generation ophthalmic diagnostic, visualization, and vision science products from concept through commercialization. You will work across optical, hardware, software, and clinical domains to solve system-level problems and guide engineering decisions.

The role involves collaboration with experts across disciplines, data analysis, and documentation of requirements and verification strategies, with opportunities to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +8 yrs.)
• M.S. or Ph.D. in Physics, Optical Engineering, Photonics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with complex system integration, such as robotics, automation, integrated medical devices, imaging systems, semiconductor tools, or aerospace systems.
• Broad technical understanding of software, hardware, optics, imaging technologies, and integrated product architectures.
• Experience with lasers, machine vision, computational imaging, image processing, signal processing, AI/machine learning, or related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside experts across scientific, clinical, optical, software, hardware, manufacturing, and engineering disciplines.
• Support software and hardware solutions for connected diagnostic and visualization product platforms.
• Execute engineering tasks related to medical device development from concept through commercialization.
• Support system integration, troubleshooting, performance characterization, and system-level tradeoff analysis.
• Generate requirements, specifications, verification and validation protocols, technical reports, and design decision documentation.
• Analyze engineering and clinical data to evaluate product performance.
• Monitor relevant technology trends in ophthalmic diagnostics, imaging, AI/ML, and connected product platforms.
• Understand existing clinical technologies and identify potential improvements.
• Generate product and technology concepts, evaluate feasibility, and support development of current and future products.
• Collaborate with globally distributed teams and develop communication skills needed to influence cross-functional technical decisions.
• Develop increasing ownership of subsystem and system-level technical workstreams, with opportunities to grow into project lead or systems lead responsibilities.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience

M.S. or Ph.D. in Physics, Optical Engineering, Photonics, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

Python

MATLAB

C/C++

Job description

Alcon is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to contribute to the development of next-generation ophthalmic diagnostic, visualization, and vision science products from concept through commercialization. You will work across optical, hardware, software, and clinical domains to solve system-level problems and guide engineering decisions.

The role involves collaboration with experts across disciplines, data analysis, and documentation of requirements and verification strategies, with opportunities to