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Lead Engineer Optical Design (m/f/x)

Berlin

Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That’s just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.

You will:

  • Assume technical responsibility for intraocular lens (IOL) development projects
  • Apply your creative abilities to identify ground-breaking innovations
  • Analyze product requirements and create product specifications together with product management
  • Transform these ideas into successful products by working closely with the project manager as part of an interdisciplinary
  • team with colleagues from Development, Product Management, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs, Engineering and Purchasing
  • Monitor technical issues for products across the entire life cycle
  • Set up and foster cooperations with external partners in industry and at research institutions

You have:

  • A degree with very good grades in physics, mechanical engineering, medical technology or a comparable field with a
  • focus on optics and optical technologies
  • A passion for theoretical and practical experimentation with new ideas and solutions and have demonstrated this,
  • e.g. in a doctoral thesis
  • Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills as well as a systematic, goal-oriented approach to solving problems
  • A high level of creativity, initiative and a readiness to take on responsibility
  • Practical experience working with optical experiments and measuring systems
  • A sound knowledge of optical design software, e.g. Zemax
  • A good understanding of the physiology of the eye and, ideally, experience modeling visual perception processes at the
  • interface between the eye and brain
  • Fluent written and spoken English and enjoy working on international teams
In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Apply now! It takes less than 10 minutes.
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