Amazon
Sr. Optical Engineer , Amazon Leo
$137K–$186K
Redmond, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in optical systems development across full product life cycles - concept to production.
- Education
- Master's degree or above in engineering, physics, or equivalent.
- 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, due to applicable export control laws and regulations.
About the job
Designs and qualifies optical metrology stations and testing processes for building, testing, and manufacturing satellite optical intersatellite-link systems.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and qualify optical metrology stations; develop optical tests and measurement methods for system integration, alignment, and qualification.
- Conduct optical module design and validation, analyze testing and manufacturing problems, and prepare test reports for program reviews.
- Write MATLAB/Python scripts to analyze and plot data, and transfer measurement processes and procedures to production teams.
What they ask for
- Master's degree or above in engineering, physics, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience in optical systems development across full product life cycles, from concept to production.
- 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 Degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electronics, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Expertise in imaging and non-imaging optical design using Zemax or other software.
Pay
137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
MATLAB, Python, interferometer, camera, imaging systems, Hart-Mann sensor, Zemax
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