Senior Coating Designer

Brief Summary:

A highly experienced thin film coating designer that pushes the envelope of high-end thin film designs to allow for competitive coating solutions. Additionally, this individual has a proven track record of coating designs for filters or ultrafast laser applications.

Essential Functions:

• Design optical coatings to meet customer and internal specifications
• Develop new optical coatings for all global manufacturing sites
• Stay up to date with coating technology capabilities and limitations
• Propose investment in new coating technologies, by defining specification needed to enable new coating designs
• Guide coating designers around the globe to raise the know-how in the organization
• Collaborate with R&D and manufacturing to ensure successful implementation of coating designs
• Train new coating designers on advanced coating topics
• Develop IP around coating design and technology to strengthen EO’s market position
• Serve as the subject matter expert on projects when needed
• Interface directly with select customers on relevant projects
• Provide management with technical tradeoffs and risks pertaining to project work as well as general engineering efforts such that management may make informed decisions
• Assist technical marketing via authoring of papers, or other external media.
• Support internal technical training and mentoring efforts
• Attend and conduct external training and seminars to further the technical exposure of the company
• Actively engaged with extra-company communications, such as peer reviewed paper publications and technical marketing.
• Establish and maintain a professional working relationship at multiple levels both internally and with the customer by understanding the customer’s business context and their unique situation.
• Collaborate with both internal and external/industry experts to anticipate customer needs in order to facilitate the definition and development of the solution.
• Strong supporter of the professional development framework for their profession and use the knowledge and best practice derived from their professional associations to the benefit of their customers.
• Directly responsible for identifying and developing new coating concepts and methodologies, through innovation and ingenuity using a diverse technical background.
• Report to status and progress of projects assigned in a regular, timely and accurate manner

Qualifications:

To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Requirements:

• Proficiency in optical principles, electromagnetic field theory, math and optical coating technology
• Expert level knowledge in Optical Coating Design, and/or other areas needed for coating design
• Understanding of document control
• Great communication, organization
• Motivated and self-starter
• Possess an innovation vision (defined as the ability to spot an opportunity, dream-up a coating solution, and convert into a working design).

Education/Experience:

• Minimum MS or PhD in Physics, Electrical engineering or Optical Sciences or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in coating design (full time equivalent).
• Proven track record of market competitive thin film design for optical filters or for ultrafast laser components

Physical Requirements:

Ability to sit or stand for long periods of time; ability to travel; work in office and/or lab/manufacturing setting.