Optical System Engineer

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The Camera Hardware Engineering group is responsible for all research design development test and qualification of camera hardware for Apple products. The team is looking for a Camera Optical Engineer to develop and support custom lens design and development.

Work on new lens designs characterization and integration into CMOS imager sensor based camera analysis of the optical elements influence on the image quality characteristics of the camera with suppliers on prototype design and issues with suppliers by defining proper metrology requesting and analyzing the necessary data and making a decision on the your design decision to the cross-functional your own schedule without a large design into production.

Bachelors degree in Optical Science Optical Engineering Physics Mathematics or related in lens design fundamentals.

Masters or PhD and a minimum of 3 years relevant industry in the area of lens design metrology and in lens design tolerance and stray light in lens characterization methodology and using an optical software package (examples may include ZEMAX CODE V FRED LightTool etc.).nAbility to perform comprehensive optical and image quality characterization of the lens and the camera be high energy multi-tasker resourceful problem solver ability to work within tight knowledge of optomechanics is a plus.