Optical Engineer - Mountain View, CA, United States
$132,000 - $179,200 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 November 2025 by the employer.
Design and analyze optical architectures and sub-components for Aeva's LiDAR coherent sensing system.
About the role
Aeva is looking for an Optical Engineer to contribute to the design, development, and testing of complex optical sub-components and systems used within Aeva’s LiDAR coherent sensing system.
What you'll do
- Design and analyze optical systems, including developing optical architectures, evaluating tolerances, manufacturability, light budgets, and other trade-offs. - Perform sequential and non-sequential simulations of optical systems. - Direct specification development for detailed drawings of optical components. - Generate and document new IP.
What you'll need
- Bachelors or Masters in optical engineering, physics, or a related field. - 3+ years experience maturing optical systems designs from proof of concept to production. - Ability to model and script in ZEMAX, Code V, Fred, or similar. - Experience in tolerance analysis, stray-light, and scattering analysis. - Experience with precision optical, micro-optic, and/or fiber optic components. - Hands-on laboratory skills in setting up, testing, validating, and troubleshooting optical, fiber optic, and opto-mechanical subsystems. - Knowledge of limitations and fabrication of optics (molded, polished, diamond turned) as well as micro structures.
Skills: optical systems design, optical architectures, ZEMAX, Code V, Fred, tolerance analysis
This role has been open 191 days — well above the 79-day median for Optical/Photonics IC Design roles.
Optical/Photonics IC Design · Photonics
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Open roles in category
136
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Median days open
79 d
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Median salary
$195k
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| Metric | Aeva Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (136 roles · 30 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 136 |
| Median days open | 156 d | 79 d (+77 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Skills observed across this category: optical systems design, optical architectures, ZEMAX, Code V, Fred, tolerance analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Coherent Corp · 17 open roles · median 95 d
- GlobalFoundries · 16 open roles · median 81 d
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- Marvell Technology · 10 open roles · median 37 d
- Intel Corporation · 7 open roles · median 65 d
How we counted: 136 open Optical/Photonics IC Design (Photonics) roles from 30 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.