Optical Metrology Engineer

Requisition Number: 74000

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​At Corning, there are endless possibilities for making an impact. You can help connect the unconnected, drive the future of automobiles, transform at-home entertainment, and ensure the delivery of lifesaving medicines. And so much more.​   

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Corning’s businesses are ever-evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, automotive, and solar markets. We are changing the world with: 

• Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
• Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
• Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
• Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences 
• Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation 
• Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions

Scope of Position:
Devise, build, and maintain instrumentation and comprehensive test methods to measure and analyze ultra-precise optical components and assemblies.

Day to Day Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with multi-disciplined project teams to design, integrate, and qualify custom metrology equipment.
• Design (or specify for purchase) optical test methods and instrumentation to measure various parameters of optical components used in complex optical systems for imaging, non-imaging and metrology systems.
• Use a wide array of in-house and commercial metrology and software to assess flatness, irregularity, radius of curvature, center thickness, mid-spatial frequency, PSD, wedge or prism angles, and other optical component parameters.  
• Read and interpret optical drawings containing optical tolerancing and ISO specifications.
• Analyze optical component surface maps to assess complex shapes using Zernike and asphere polynomials.  
• Create and document metrology methods and test procedures for transfer to manufacturing.
• Train manufacturing personnel to execute test and measurement tasks.

Travel Requirements:
• 5%, domestic & international. Typical travel includes training, networking opportunities, customer visits, conferences and trade shows, as required.

Hours of work:
• Typical work hours, M-F, 8am-5pm. Extra and off hours may be required during times of heightened project activity in order to meet deliverables
• This position requires on-site work at one of two locations in the greater Rochester NY area

Required Education & Experience:
• B.S. in Engineering required; Optics or Physics preferred.
• 2-5 years in designing instrumentation for testing precision optical components systems. Hands-on metrology laboratory experience required, as is industrial experience in optical metrology.  Must be familiar with optical shop phase measuring interferometers.  
• Ability to function on a product development team of multi-disciplinary engineers.
• Experience and understanding of geometrical optics and optical test methods.
• Must have strong presentation and technical writing skills to enable communication within the program team and with internal and external customers

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• M.S. in Optics or Physics

• Experience with interferometry, wavefront sensing, deflectometry, profilometry, precision tooling, polarization/polarimetry, etc

• Experience with aspheric measurement methods (sub-aperture stitching, null testing, CGH design and implementation, etc) a plus.

• Familiarity with optical and stylus profilometry, roughness measurement, microscopy.
• Familiarity with gauge study and measurement uncertainty assessment.
• Proficiency in Excel is required.

• Matlab, Python, or other analytical software applications is desired.  

• Proficiency with phase measuring software from Zygo, 4D, Apre, QED a plus.

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

The range for this position is $95,386.00 - $131,156.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. 

A job that shapes a life.  

Corning offers you the total package.  

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Corning is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and considers requests for reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. Individuals with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs may request reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, or access other benefits and privileges of employment. To submit a request for reasonable accommodation related to disability or religion, please contact us at accommodations@corning.com.