At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. We're seeking a Principal Opto-Mechanical Engineer II to lead teams in designing, validating, and optimizing optical components and systems. The ideal candidate will have 10 years of relevant experience and proficiency in CREO, SolidWorks, or equivalent CAD skills.
Requirements
- Leading teams in designing, validating, and optimizing optical components and systems
- Conducting advanced research on light behavior, material properties, and optical performance
- Ensuring designs meet high-precision and regulatory requirements
- Applying deep expertise in optical modeling and decision-making on system architectures
- Collaborating cross-functionally to develop cutting-edge optical solutions
- Ensuring adherence to GxP regulations and maintaining accurate and complete documentation
- Committing to continuous improvement and contributing to overall compliance
- Applying in-depth knowledge of Opto-Mechanical Engineering in Ophthalmic related Diagnostic & Visualization surgical instrumentation domain as SME
- Performing Opto-mechanical design including lens barrel and lens housing design, lens bonding and mounting techniques, and opto-mechanical analysis
- Conducting design, research, development, and process upscaling for new medical device products
- Investigating and evaluating existing technology and designing new methodology, materials, machines, or processes as needed for Ophthalmic medical device development
- Understanding operation principles for optomechanical and electromechanical actuators and sensors and integrating these within complex sub-systems
- Generating detailed parts fabrication drawings including GD&T and tolerance analysis
- Supporting medical device development activities such as prototyping, testing, pilot builds, V&V, risk assessment, and ramp-up to production release
- Supporting all aspects of documentation and design control through PECN, ECN, ECP in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform (Windchill preferred)
- Developing assembling and alignment fixtures for prototype fabrication and creating associated manufacturing assembling (MAP) and manufacturing testing processes (MTP)
- Supporting concurrent engineering activities, design control and transition to manufacturing
- Technical lead for feasibility study and new product development ensuring that design activities are conducted following Alcon SOPs
- Deriving product design requirements based on top-level commercial input
- Identifying technical, project schedule, and commercial viability risks
- Running cross-functional design trade-off and technical reviews to drive design decisions
- Working effectively with cross-functional development teams including Optics, Mechanical, Electrical, Software, QA, Industrial Design and Manufacturing functions
- Making contributions to ideations, patent portfolio and the corporation strategy development
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Retirement plan
- Flexible time off
- Relocation assistance
- Total Rewards programs
