Amazon
Optical Development Manager, Amazon Leo
$175K–$237K
Redmond, WA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in optical systems development; 3 years of direct management experience.
- Education
- PhD in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electronics, or related discipline, or equivalent experience (preferred).
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the job
Leads a multidisciplinary team developing optical satellite-to-satellite communication systems and the metrology, testing, and manufacturing processes used to qualify and produce them.
What you'll do
- Lead design, build, and qualification of optical systems and metrology for testing and manufacturing inter-satellite link systems.
- Oversee optical validation testing, test requirements, and reporting; resolve technical issues across testing and manufacturing.
- Develop measurement processes and analysis methods, and transfer them to production.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of optical systems development experience across full product life cycles, with 3 years of direct technical-team management experience.
- Experience leading teams working with lasers, detectors, modulators, optical fiber and devices, and optical metrology equipment.
- Experience defining optical metrology strategies for component- and system-level testing and qualification.
- Experience in physical and geometric optics, Gaussian beam propagation, and detection.
Nice to have
- PhD in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electronics, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Expertise in optical design using Zemax or equivalent software.
Pay
175,100.00 - 236,900.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
lasers, detectors, modulators, optical fiber, interferometers, cameras, Hartmann sensors, MATLAB/Python
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