Optomechanics Integration & Test Engineer

ProContext Consulting
Eindhoven, Netherlands
8 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate

Job location

Eindhoven, Netherlands

Tech stack

Data analysis
Software Debugging
Python
Systems Integration
Visual Systems

Job description

You will be the primary lab person on our prototype tool. As subsystems come together, you drive the day-to-day work of getting them physically assembled, aligned, and measuring. You are the person who turns arrived hardware and a stack of drawings into a system that actually works on the optical table or as a prototype system.

Requirements

Concretely, you will: - Assemble and align precision optomechanical systems, from individual mounts up to full subsystem integration - Integrate motion stages, cameras, lasers, and sensors into working setups, and test and drive them - Design and execute tests for measurement uncertainty, repeatability, and reproducibility, and prove subsystem performance against spec - Write clear test protocols and maintain rigorous lab logbook that the rest of the team can rely on - Be the in-house hands-on debugging partner when something in the lab does not behave as expected Your profile - Hands-on experience assembling and aligning precision optomechanical systems - Comfortable working with motion controllers, cameras, lasers, and sensors, and integrating them into a system - Comfortable with Python for hardware control scripts and quick data analysis - Strong grasp of measurement uncertainty, repeatability, and reproducibility, and how to design and execute tests that actually prove those - Writing test protocols and clear logbooks comes naturally to you - You take ownership from a rough requirement to something that actually runs reliably on lab hardware - Full professional proficiency in English - BSc/MSc with 2+ years of relevant experience in the field of applied physics, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering Bonus experience in any of these: - UV or DUV optical systems - Vacuum or cleanroom work - Interferometry, wavefront sensing, or o...

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