Senior optical engineer vs staff design engineer

Differences between senior optical engineer and staff design engineer duties and responsibilities

Senior optical engineer example responsibilities.

• Apply technical knowledge in electromagnetic theory and microwave technology to plan and manage projects concern with ground-base radar systems.
• Design, tolerance and error budgeting in builds of Ritchey-Chretien telescopes.
• Measure the image quality of lenses with modulation-transfer-function (MTF) equipment.
• Design beam shaping optical telescope for high energy laser base propulsion system using ZEMAX.
• Interface with suppliers on manufacture of lenses using visible glass, IR materials and plastic.
• Study optical system tolerance using ZEMAX and develop processes and control algorithms for robots to perform 5D active alignment.
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Staff design engineer example responsibilities.

• Manage aspects of commercial architecture projects, develop solutions to problems that arise during construction.
• Manage complex resolution of provisioning issues and develop practices and procedures for circuit installation and maintenance.
• Design parts and Verilog libraries for PCB system level integration.
• Design ASIC base control electronics for an army smart sub-munition (SADARM).
• Re-Implement porting and connecting script for design auto generation from scratch using Perl.
• Design of VSWR protection circuit for CMOS power amplifiers integrate in WLAN product lines.
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