Senior Staff Principal Optical Engineer Visualization Systems
Horizon Surgical Systems is a UCLA spinout developing Polaris, an AI-supported, imaging-guided microsurgical robotics platform for cataract surgery.
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About Horizon Surgical Systems
Privately held medical-robotics company developing assistive surgical robotics, imaging, and machine-learning capabilities for ophthalmic surgery. Its Polaris platform has completed first-in-human robotic-assisted cataract procedures but remains investigational and is not FDA approved for commercialization.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop an advanced multimodality ophthalmic visualization system for a robotic surgery platform. You will design optical and opto-mechanical systems, build and calibrate prototypes, evaluate designs, document standard operating procedures, collect early-user feedback, and support manufacturability within a quality management system.
Requirements
- B.S. plus 5 years, M.S. plus 3 years, or PhD plus 0 years of experience in optical or electrical engineering, physics, or a related discipline
- Experience constructing, aligning, and calibrating optical systems
- Familiarity with optical design tools such as Zemax, Code V, or OSLO
- Familiarity with CAD software such as Solidworks
- Understanding of opto-mechanical design, tolerancing, coherence, statistical optics, light sources, and detectors
- Experience with Optical Coherence Tomography systems
- Experience developing medical devices and understanding quality management systems and design controls
Responsibilities
- Participate in the optical and opto-mechanical design of a multi-modality surgical imaging platform
- Construct, align, calibrate, and maintain prototype systems and release candidates
- Work with electrical, mechanical, and software engineers to optimize system performance
- Devise, maintain, and execute standard operating procedures for prototype construction, alignment, and calibration
- Construct and evaluate modular bench prototypes
- Gather feedback from early users and pilot studies and iterate on designs
- Operate within a quality management system
- Participate in design-for-manufacturability efforts
Benefits
- Company-paid benefits package
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- 401k
- Remote days
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid maternity/paternity leave
- Company holidays