Optical Engineer

6 days ago

Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom CooperVision Full time

Job Description
Who We Are
SightGlass Vision, Inc., a joint venture company between CooperVision and EssilorLuxottica, is the inventor and manufacturer of novel spectacle lenses that have proven to strongly reduce the progression of myopia in children. With this game changing technology in hand, we are poised to improve the life of millions of children worldwide.

Why Work With Us
We are a small but growing enthusiastic team and as such we recognize each employee as a vital member of the team. Integrity and respect are fundamental to our working relationships. We have a nimble start-up mentality and are backed by the world leaders in vision care products. We are friendly, inventive, and dedicated. Our lenses don't just change vision, they change lives. Join a team that is passionate about improving children's visual health and quality of life.

Job Summary
This is a newly created role within our R&D team, contributing to the development of innovative spectacle lens technologies for myopia control. This role involves leading optical design efforts, performing simulations, and conducting tolerancing analyses to ensure high-performance, manufacturable optical solutions.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities

  • Design complex optical systems for myopia control lenses.
  • Conduct optical simulation of new design concepts (MSF, PSF, wavefront error, scatter).
  • Define product specification in both surfaces-based and functional parameter space.
  • Conduct tolerance analysis to assess sensitivity in manufacturing and real-life use.
  • Work closely with clinical experts, regulatory and process development to align optical design with therapeutic goals and manufacturability.
  • Support prototype development and testing.
  • Literature review for passive and active optical solutions for contrast management.
  • Automate data analysis flow to support R&D activities
  • Contribute to intellectual property generation and patent filings.
  • Prepare detailed design documentation and simulation reports.
  • Attend relevant conferences.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

  • Proficient in Zemax or similar.
  • Experienced with Python or similar.
  • Experienced with numerical analysis, data processing.
  • Strong understanding of geometric and physical optics, optical design and tolerancing.
  • Prior experience in design of myopia management products
  • Prior experience in design of ophthalmic lenses.
  • Understanding of ISO standards in ophthalmic lenses.

Qualifications/Experience:

  • Master of PhD degree in physics, optical engineering, engineering or similar.
  • 3 year+ experience in optical design and modelling.
  • Experience in working in a team.

Work Environment

  • Ability to work in the office 5 days per week
  • Willingness and ability to travel occasionally is essential
  • Due to the global scope of some projects involving several time zones, the ability to accommodate meetings outside of typical daily work hours from time to time is required
  • This is a high growth, fast paced, small organisation. The ability to be productive and successful in an intense work

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