Senior Systems Engineer – Ophthalmic Diagnostic and Visualization Products
Listed on 2026-08-30
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Engineering
Systems Engineer
At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers.
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The Senior Systems Engineer will contribute to the development of next-generation ophthalmic diagnostic, visualization, and vision science products from concept through commercialization. This role will contribute to system integration, requirements development, verification and validation, data analysis, and technology evaluation across optical, hardware, software, and clinical domains. This position is intended for a technically strong engineer or scientist who wants to grow into broader product development leadership by working across disciplines, solving system-level problems, and learning the full medical device development process.
This is an onsite based position based out of our Lake Forest, CA Main Campus.
In this role, a typical day will include:- Work alongside experts across scientific, clinical, optical, software, hardware, manufacturing, and engineering disciplines.
- Support software and hardware solutions for connected diagnostic and visualization product platforms.
- Execute engineering tasks related to medical device development from concept through commercialization.
- Support system integration, troubleshooting, performance characterization, and system‑level tradeoff analysis.
- Generate requirements, specifications, verification and validation protocols, technical reports, and design decision documentation.
- Analyze engineering and clinical data to evaluate product performance.
- Monitor relevant technology trends in ophthalmic diagnostics, imaging, AI/ML, and connected product platforms.
- Understand existing clinical technologies and identify potential improvements.
- Generate product and technology concepts, evaluate feasibility, and support development of current and future products.
- Collaborate with globally distributed teams and develop communication skills needed to influence cross‑functional technical decisions.
- Develop increasing ownership of subsystem and system‑level technical work streams, with opportunities to grow into project lead or systems lead responsibilities.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +8 yrs. Assoc.+4 yrs.)
- The ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English
- Relocation Assistance:
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- M.S. or Ph.D. in Physics, Optical Engineering, Photonics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience with complex system integration, such as robotics, automation, integrated medical devices, imaging systems, semiconductor tools, or aerospace systems.
- Broad technical understanding of software, hardware, optics, imaging technologies, and integrated product architectures.
- Experience with lasers, machine vision, computational imaging, image processing, signal processing, AI/machine learning, or related technologies.
- Programming or scripting experience in Python, MATLAB, C/C++, or similar tools.
- Experience with requirements development, system‑level testing, verification and validation, and technical documentation.
- Familiarity with risk management, design control, and regulated medical device development.
- Systems engineering experience supporting late‑stage medical device development, launch, or lifecycle support.
- Experience with systems engineering tools, analysis methods, trade‑off studies, or performance modeling.
Manage your own workload and schedule while hitting your set targets. Build positive working relationships to achieve positive goals and business objectives. Balance experiencing new environments and working autonomously in a remote sales environment. Alcon provides robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible…
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