MScOptical LENS DESIGNER
Title: Lens Designer
Field: High Technology
Status: Regular
Type: Full time
Salary: To be determined
Hiring date: ASAP
At Immervision we bring eyes to machines. A privately owned technology firm located in Montreal, Immervision looking for a dynamic individual to work closely with the R&D team. To ensure success, aside from technical skills, the Lens Designer should be good at organization, time management, problem-solving, and communication with other team members. As a part of our dynamic team of optical experts, the Lens Designer will have an impact on optical design and manufacturing highly advanced vision systems, including wide-angle, miniature optics, night vision, freeform, and metasurface.
This position is open to remote workers as well.
Your role includes:
- Undertake preliminary and detailed optical design and analysis;
- Generate complete tolerance set to support prototyping and mass production;
- Develop assembly and test strategies;
- Troubleshoot if required;
- Involvement in R&D of optical & opto-mechanical technologies to develop customized panomorph lens solutions for mass production.
Qualifications
- Masters (MSc) degree in optics or equivalent;
- 3-5 years of experience in lens design for imaging using well known optical design software (or equivalent, senior lens designers are welcome); experience acquired during a PhD. is considered;
- Experience in wide angle lens design including distortion and anamorphosis control is a plus;
- A good understanding of optical mounting and assembly practices;
- Experience in optical design for mass production is a plus;
- A working knowledge of glass molding and engineering polymers is desirable.
- Good knowledge in Zemax or CodeV software; ASAP is a plus;
- Knowledge in optomechanical design is a plus;
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills (traveling 15%);
- English required;
- One of the following languages will be an asset: Chinese, Korean or Japanese.
Attitude: Team player, autonomous, organized, motivated and proactive.