Opto Mechanical Engineer

Overview

You will design precision mechanical components for optical systems and verify performance through modelling and prototyping. You will translate optical requirements into manufacturable designs and ensure alignment, tolerancing, and thermal/structural considerations are accounted for. You collaborate with manufacturing teams to enable production-ready assemblies and support fibre-to-chip and free-space optical integration. The role combines hands-on lab work with design in SolidWorks and optical analysis in Zemax to deliver robust opto-mechanical solutions. This is an opportunity to shape the integration of optics and mechanics in a manufacturing context.

Responsibilities

• Design precision mechanical components and assemblies for optical systems using SolidWorks
• Model optical systems, assess tolerances and ensure designs meet optical performance requirements with Zemax
• Translate optical requirements into practical, manufacturable mechanical designs
• Carry out tolerance stack-ups and assess impact of manufacturing variation on alignment and performance
• Build and test prototypes in a hands-on laboratory environment
• Support fibre-to-chip and free-space optical alignment and integration
• Investigate mechanical and thermal effects such as drift, deformation, stress, and misalignment
• Collaborate with manufacturing teams and suppliers to ensure designs are suitable for production and assembly

Key requirements

• Hands-on experience with SolidWorks for mechanical design and drafting
• Experience with Zemax or similar optical design and simulation software
• Strong understanding of optics fundamentals including alignment, tolerancing, focusing and beam propagation
• Experience in opto-mechanical, mechanical or optical engineering
• Experience with mechanical and optical tolerance analysis
• Comfortable working hands-on with prototypes, laboratory equipment and manufacturing processes
• Practical, methodical approach to problem solving and troubleshooting

• practical problem solving
• hands-on collaboration
• clear communication
• SolidWorks
• Zemax
• optics fundamentals

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