Senior Optics Design Engineer, OPD Hardware

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV , Amazon Echo and Ring products. What will you help us create?

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Optics Design Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. You will work closely with an internal interdisciplinary team, and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, and test. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. In this role, you will:

• Work with a component engineering team and product engineering team to provide rapid prototyping and characterization of optics or imaging systems
• Provide support for modelling and design for prototyping and manufacturing of lightguides and lenses.
• Use software tools (LightTools, Zemax etc.) to model system optics characteristics
• Work with cross-functional team to draft component specification, design reviews, work with vendors to manufacture parts and validate results by specifying test parameters and methodologies
• Communicate and manage overseas component manufacturing vendors

A day in the life
As a senior optical design engineer, the day begins with reviewing simulation results from the latest lens design iteration. I analyze optical performance metrics like sharpness,aberrations and image quality, ensuring the design meets specifications. Meetings with cross-functional teams follow, where we discuss project timelines, material constraints, and integration challenges. Afternoons are spent refining models in Zemax or CODE V, testing prototypes, or collaborating with the manufacturing team to ensure seamless production. Occasionally, I mentor engineers, reviewing their work and offering guidance. The day wraps up with documenting progress and planning next steps for future optimizations.

About the team
We are the camera and sensor engineering team in Amazon central technology organization. We imagine,innovate and implement sensing technologies and imaging solutions for Amazon devices of today and tomorrow. We span existing and emerging technologies to delight customers by harmoniously capturing and perceiving their world.