About this role
Optical & System Designer – Illumination (m/f/x)
Your Role
- You design optics for new products or generations, optimize their functionality, and ensure the optical performance of our systems—analytically, numerically, and in close collaboration with colleagues from mechanics, electronics, and other optics-design teams.
- As a team member, you translate complex, interdisciplinary requirements—thermal influences, packaging constraints, and manufacturing limits—into robust optics and system designs.
- You bring initiative, challenge existing approaches, and actively contribute to continually rethinking solutions.
Your Profile
- Completed science-based Master’s degree or PhD (preferably Physics, Optics, Photonics, or related fields)
- Professional experience in academia or industry (e.g., as a Postdoc) is a plus but not required
- Basic knowledge of scientific programming (e.g., Matlab, Python)
- Experience in designing optical systems, both imaging and non-imaging optics, with ray-tracing methods and automated optimizers — the specific tool is secondary (e.g., Zemax/OpticStudio, CodeV, etc.)
- Strong natural science curiosity and willingness to independently dive deep into the physics of lithography systems and their modeling
- Experience with AI methods (e.g., for optimization or data analysis) is welcome but not required
- Communication strength: you can explain complex technical concepts to colleagues from other disciplines
- Enjoyment of self-motivated, structured work and learning in an interdisciplinary team
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:
Matthias Sonnentag
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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.
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.
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