Systems Design Engineer

2 weeks ago

Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom Coherent Full time
Job Description

At Coherent Scotland, we develop laser systems that help people. Our systems are deployed in a wide variety of markets including renewable energy, microelectronics, fundamental research, life sciences and medicine. We aim to make a positive impact on everybody's life by providing customers with lasers with superior reliability and performance.

Coherent Scotland has grown strongly and consistently over the past ten years, even through times of global economic slowdown. We have a healthy product development pipeline which will enable this growth to continue in the future. This will generate many exciting opportunities for personal growth within the organisation in the years to come.

Coherent Scotland is based at the West of Scotland Science Park in Glasgow and is a subsidiary of Coherent Corp., a global leader in the manufacture of materials, networking equipment and laser products. We are housed in a purpose-built facility with research and development, manufacturing, and marketing all on one site.

We have a friendly, business-orientated work environment and great staff facilities within our modern building, such as an on-site cafeteria. In addition, we offer a competitive remuneration package which includes a contributory pension scheme, subsidised private health care and free life assurance. However, if a work-life balance is important to you, you'll also be pleased to know that we operate flexible core hours which provide the opportunity to start your weekend early and we also offer hybrid working arrangements within a commutable distance to our facility.

About the role

Reporting into R&D, this role is for a Systems Engineer to co-ordinate system design primarily from the perspective of the underlying and customer-facing control system.

This opening comes at a time of exciting growth for the Company with an opportunity to join a multidiscipline engineering team and shape the next generation of cutting-edge laser products.

You will work as part of the development team from the feasibility phase through the full manufacturing release cycle. Successful candidates will develop a level of understanding that spans across the system design to become a vital expert in the laser system.

Responsibilities will include:
  • Working within multi-disciplinary engineering team (NPI, software, electronics, optical).
  • Investigating electronics and software issues on existing product lines. Debugging and driving solutions to be implemented within the wider team.
  • Ownership of control system design requirements in new designs. Taking information from other disciplines (mainly optical) and defining system functional block diagrams, design constraints and control algorithms.
  • Working with design personnel to adapt requirements and carry out final testing.
  • Ownership of control system design reliability analysis. This will include documented failure mode analyses.
  • Analysis of system adherence to safety standards.
  • Critically reviewing design choices with the needs of all stakeholders considered from the engineering team, through production to the customer and field support.
  • Working with prototype systems and critically looking for any improvements through both empirical and paper-based detailed analyses.
  • Leading or active involvement in root cause analysis of any failures that occur in early manufacturing cycle.
  • Acting as the technology conduit between the software & electronics group and the optical teams.
  • Owning a synoptic view of the system design whilst being part of the discrete teams performing focused developments.
  • Troubleshooting and root-cause failure-analysis for prototype units through the development process.
  • Contribute to or lead troubleshooting for manufacturing or field issues on production released systems. Coordinating corrective actions for these may then be required.
Education and Experience:

Essential Skills
  • Physics, Electronics Engineering, or similar BSc degree.
  • Basic electronics knowledge of analogue circuits. An ability to probe, measure and debug against designed functionality.
  • Experience of using problem solving skills to investigate cross-discipline issues with some root-cause analysis methodology.
  • Demonstratable experience of problem solving of electronics / software / optical issues.
  • A tenacious approach to problem solving with a desire to get to the demonstratable root of the problem.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Able to describe complex technologies across disciplines.
  • Ability to work on multiple tasks and manage priorities.
  • Detail-oriented, able to take general instructions and seek out all the elements needed to complete the assigned task.
  • Ability to drive a project within the organisation.
  • Comfortable to work on your own to investigate issues outside of comfort zone.
  • Working with teams with competing needs.
Preferred Additional Skills
  • General understanding of control systems involving electronics and software blocks.
  • A detailed understanding of some aspects of laser designs; these could include ultrashort laser pulses, mode-locking techniques, UV generation, fiber laser systems, solid state laser oscillators and amplifiers.
  • Coding using a text-based coding language (e.g., Python, C#, MATLAB) for data analysis or instrumentation control.
About Us

Coherent is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components. We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program. It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity and growth. Come Join Us

Note to recruiters and employment agencies: We will not pay for unsolicited resumes from recruiters and employment agencies unless we have a signed agreement and have required assistance, in writing, for a specific opening.

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