Senior Lead Systems Design Engineer

At Coherent Scotland we develop laser systems. 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 everybodys 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. We develop and manufacture many different lasers on site as well as manufacturing lasers which are developed in other Coherent divisions.

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 purposebuilt facility with research and development manufacturing and marketing all on one site.

We have a friendly businessorientated work environment and great staff facilities within our modern building including as an onsite 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 worklife balance is important to you youll also be pleased to know that we operate flexible core hours which provide the opportunity to start your weekend early.

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting into R&D this role is for a Systems Design Engineer to coordinate system design primarily from the perspective of the underlying and customerfacing 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 cuttingedge 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.

PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES.

• Ownership of control system design reliability analysis including documented failure mode analysis.
• 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 paperbased detailed analysis.
• Leading or actively being involved in root cause analysis of any failures that occur in early manufacturing cycle.
• Working closely with team members especially optical software and electronics teams.
• 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 teams which perform the detail developments.
• Troubleshooting and root cause failure analysis for prototype units through the development process.
• Contributing to troubleshooting and coordinating corrective actions for manufacturing or field issues on production released systems.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Physics or Engineering or similar BSc degree or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Experience of strong problem solving skills to investigate crossdiscipline issues with some rootcause analysis methodology.
• Tenacious approach to problem solving with a desire to get to the demonstratable root of the problem.
• Demonstratable experience of problem solving of electronics / software / optical issues.
• General understanding of electronics and control systems.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks and manage priorities.
• Detailoriented able to take general instructions and seek out all the elements needed to complete the assigned tasks.
• 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 and ability to describe complex technologies across disciplines.
• Ownership of control system design requirements. 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.

Prefered Additional Skills

• A detailed understanding of some aspects of laser designs. These could include ultrashort laser pulses modelocking techniques UV generation fiber laser systems solid state laser oscillators and amplifiers.
• Coding using a textbased coding language (e.g. Python C# MATLAB) for data analysis or instrumentation control.
• Basic electronics knowledge.

SKILLS & OTHER REQUIREMENTS