Optical Engineer
Do you know how to design, characterize and integrate lenses for medical endoscopes?
- Join us to shape the future of medical devices
Do you know how to design, characterize and integrate lenses for medical endoscopes? And do you want to influence our product design ideas? Then this newly created and exciting role as Optical Engineer might be the right opportunity for you.
Ambu develops, manufactures and sells medical devices. Millions of patients and healthcare professionals depend on the functionality and performance of Ambu’s products worldwide. We want to be first in line to deliver new and innovative devices by rethinking existing processes and combining several technologies. We are looking for an Engineer for our Front-end System Innovation team who would like to participate in shaping the future success of Ambu.
We offer a challenging position located at our headquarters in Ballerup where you will participate in securing our ongoing dedication to quality products. You will be part of an effective innovation culture with a tradition of fast completion of projects, which means that there is a visible link between your results and Ambu’s growth.
Key responsibilities as Optical Engineer
High product performance is our trademark, and you will play an important role in further optimising performance by developing optical solutions for Ambu’s single-use scopes camera modules. You will work closely with our lens suppliers and you will closely coordinate with our hardware function, our marketing department and our customers.
Your primary tasks will be
- Design, characterize and integrate the lenses into CMOS camera modules.
- Analysis and test of the optical element's influence on the image quality characteristics of the camera module.
- Provide image analysis assistance to the project groups during development.
- Development through the use of external partnerships.
- Communicate plans and results to the global innovation team.
- Drive development of advanced test methods.
Experienced in image processing
To be considered for this position, you need to hold a Masters of Science in Optics, Physics, Electrical Engineering and 3+ years’ of medical device experience. You need to have a deep understanding of optical systems and you need to have the ability to perform optical and image quality characterization of the lens and the camera module. Additionally you need to have hands-on experience with building electro-optical setups, lens characterization methodology, development through external partners and Matlab simulations of optical systems.
We are looking for a highly motivated candidate who has a strong sense of detail with a proactive and flexible mind-set combined with the ability to plan, execute and meet deadlines. You manage to focus, prioritise and document the result of analysis and test in technical reports. As you will be working with external development partners worldwide, it is of great importance that you have excellent leadership skills and interpersonal skills, including multicultural awareness and sensitivity, ideally within Asian culture. Furthermore, using methods and tooling for a structured approach is also natural to you.
It is essential that you have excellent English communication skills, both written and oral, and that you are willing to travel approximately 20 days per year.
Ambu - a visionary and international workplace where your efforts matter
Ambu is a company that expands rapidly and has ambitious growth targets. We meet these targets through interdisciplinary teamwork between motivated and highly skilled employees. Your contributions and efforts are crucial to our success and by joining us, you will get the opportunity to work in an international head office with an informal working environment.
We offer a wide range of professional, social and financial employee benefits in addition to exciting job challenges and continuous professional and personal development.
Information and deadline
If you are ready to apply for the position, please apply as soon as possible. Note, that we will take candidates into the recruitment process continuously so no need to hesitate. This job ad might be online until 5 November 2017 but once we have found the right candidate we will remove the ad.
You can get more information about the job and about Ambu A/S by Technology Research Manager Finn Sonnenborg, e-mail fso@ambu.com.
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