Optical Design Sr. Engineer

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 2026SPIE Prism Awardin theOptical 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 Wo...