Staff Engineer, Optical Systems Design

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Are you passionate about innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? Thermo Fisher Scientific invests over $1 billion in R&D every year. Join us in solving the world’s toughest challenges like giving hope to cancer patients, ensuring safe drinking water, and helping law enforcement solve cases using forensics. We empower our teams to put science into action and provide our R&D colleagues with the autonomy, resources, and tools they need to go beyond.

Location/Division: South San Francisco, CA Genetic Sciences Division

Join our innovative genetic analysis team developing tools and solutions for research and clinical applications. Make a meaningful contribution to advancing scientific discovery, and improving global health outcomes.

Discover Impactful Work:

Your role as a Staff Optical Systems Engineer requires expertise in optical systems and provides technical leadership for new product development and innovation in genetic analysis instrumentation.

What will you do?

• Understand customers and passionately represent their needs in optical system product requirements
• Partner with product management to translate customer needs into optical system requirements
• Design optical systems
• Develop optical models, analyze optical tolerance stack-ups, and lead sensitivity analysis
• Partner with the Operations team leading the design transfer

How will you get here:

Education

BS/MS/Ph.D. degree or equivalent experience in an Optical Engineering field, Applied Physics, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Experience

• Ph.D. or equivalent experience with 3+ years of industry experience, or MS or equivalent experience with 5+ years of industry experience, or BS or equivalent experience with 7+ years of industry experience.
• Track record of developing moderate complexity RUO instrumentation
• Has been optics lead or sub-team optical lead through product development cycles which incorporate optical imaging systems
• Experience building, and maintaining optics lab

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Deep understanding of fluorescence-based optical detection systems
• Solid foundation and hands-on experience in optics, optical physics, optical instrumentation, and system troubleshooting
• Experience with optical modeling tools, including ZEMAX
• Knowledge of materials and processes used in the manufacture of optical components
• Familiar with the key technical elements of genetic analyzers
• Able to champion and align collaborators on technical trade-offs relative to optical solutions

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $129,400.00–$172,500.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards