Optical Design Senior Engineer - Early Career

Job description

About our group: Our technology development group designs Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) heads for future products. We design integrated optics that delivers light from a laser to a Near-Field Transducer (NFT), and design the plasmonic NFT that focuses the laser light down to a spot size 10’s of nanometers in diameter (10x smaller than the diffraction limit). We also design the magnetic circuit that applies a >2 Tesla, GHz magnetic field within nanometers of the NFT’s optical spot. This “leading-edge photonic and magnetic integration” designed by our group won the 2026 SPIE Prism Award in the Optical Materials and Components category. About the role - you will: - Help identify and invent concepts that will improve HAMR recording head performance - Optimize NFT designs to improve performance and reliability - Work closely with other designers and the wafer process team to build your ideas into real devices, which will require evaluating design/process tradeoffs and optimizations - Work with other designers and the test team to characterize the new devices, which will require utilizing standard tests and developing novel test methodologies - Use analytical tools, numerical m...