Beamforming, Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design of Experiments (DOE), Error Budgets, MATLAB, Microoptics, National Instruments LabVIEW, Optical Metrology, Optical Systems, Optomechanics, Physical Optics, Precision Alignments, Python (Programming Language), Silicon Photonics, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Technical Leadership, Tolerance Analysis, Water Testing, Wave Propagation, Zemax Education & Experience: The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across engineering, manufacturing, quality, software, and commercial teams; translate customer and product needs into system requirements; and establish robust design, simulation, test, and validation methods.