Amazon
Sr. Optical Engineer , Amazon Leo
$137K–$186K
REDMOND, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 25, 2026
- Location
- REDMOND, WA
Redmond, WA - Experience
- 5+ years of full product life cycle 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
Designs and qualifies optical metrology stations and manufacturing processes for optical inter-satellite link systems.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and qualify optical metrology stations and develop optical measurement methods.
- Analyze optical testing and manufacturing problems and develop solutions.
- Develop measurement processes and procedures for volume manufacturing and scalable production.
What they ask for
- Experience developing functional specifications, design verification plans, and functional test procedures.
- Experience with lasers, detectors, modulators, optical fiber and devices, testing and characterization, and optical metrology for component and system test and qualification.
- Experience with 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 imaging and non-imaging optical design using Zemax or other software; experience in automated testing and system characterization.
Pay
USD 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
lasers, detectors, modulators, optical fiber, interferometer, imaging, high speed laser, Zemax
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