Research Associate in Optical Design (m/f/x)

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Enabler for smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips.

Work where the morning arises.

What can't be missing from a smartphone? Exactly, the microchip – the heart of any electronically controlled system. About 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are manufactured using ZEISS technologies. ZEISS is a technology leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and solutions for process control, ZEISS enables the production of increasingly smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips – and thus decisively shapes the age of microelectronics and nanoelectronics with its innovations.

With your new task, You are embedded in a team of highly qualified experts who specialize in designing and simulating the most demanding optical systems that we need to manufacture and qualify our high-performance optics for semiconductor lithography. In this team you will: Develop, optimize and analyze optical designs for complex optical measuring systems

Predictions on the optical performance of optical measurement setups based on complex simulations

create and develop the associated simulation programs and software tools

work closely with other disciplines in order to be able to design the optical systems according to our high requirements

Document your development results and present them in a comprehensible and concise manner

You have completed your studies very well in an MINT course, doctoral studies or corresponding professional experience are desirable

You have already successfully applied your outstanding simulation and programming skills, preferably in Python, in larger projects.

You have pronounced mathematical and theoretical competencies as well as the ability to solve problems in the field of optimization and numerics

You possess basic knowledge of physical and technical optics and are motivated to continuously expand them.

a high level of team capacity, initiative, readiness for responsibility and commitment

You communicate very well in German and English and can represent complex relationships well

Experience in optics design is desirable

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