Principal Optical Engineer

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Who We Are

Tesseract’s mission is to democratize healthcare delivery to everyone on a global scale. We are reinventing medical devices to leverage the health information in the human eye and championing a new era of healthcare by creating portable, affordable, easy to use, connected devices for early disease detection and monitoring. Tesseract is well-funded and recently raised a series B round of $80M.

We are part of 4Catalyzer - a rapidly growing health-tech incubator founded by Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, an award-winning scientist and highly successful serial entrepreneur. Our 4Catalyzer sister companies include Butterfly Network, the first whole-body Ultrasound-on-ChipTM, and Hyperfine, the first FDA-cleared portable MRI. We are fostering a culture of technical excellence and positive teamwork to solve real-world problems that help improve healthcare for billions of people around the world.

Joining Tesseract is the opportunity to redesign the future of healthcare through the power of technology. Join us on this journey to maximize global impact, motivated by the idea that our products will change lives, including the ones of people you love.

What We Live By

  • Patients First: We are driven to make products that will improve people’s lives.
  • Data-Driven: We search for the best solutions: objective, backed by data, and optimized for speed, simplicity and scale.
  • Team-Oriented: We collaborate with and support each other every step of the way.

What You Will Be Doing

As the Senior/Principal Optical Engineer, you will play a critical role in helping the company achieve its mission of using the eye as a window to health for democratizing healthcare. The optical engineering position will develop innovative solutions for imaging and sensing the eye. The position will work closely with a team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers to design, prototype and transfer novel imaging techniques to manufacturing.

As part of our team, your core responsibilities will be to:

  • Optical design to support complex ophthalmic imaging systems using appropriate simulations tools
  • Working closely with electrical, mechanical, and software teams to ensure optimal system performance
  • Supporting bench prototypes to demonstrate capabilities of the designs
  • Working closely with product management to understand user requirements and translating into specifications
  • Following medical device design and development processes to allow traceability and team-wide collaboration
  • Participating in design for manufacturing efforts and enhancing designs based on manufacturability.
  • Understanding cost and performance tradeoffs 
  • Participating in generating new intellectual property for the company
  • Team and goal oriented while embracing shared values and being excited about team’s mission to democratize healthcare

What We Are Looking For

Baseline Skills, Experiences, & Attributes

  • 10 years of experience in optical design including lens design, optimization, tolerance analysis, sequential and non-sequential analysis, physical optics propagation, fiber optics and others
  • 5 years of experience in devices related to imaging, treatment or other expertise related to ophthalmics. Strong background in ophthalmic optics required
  • Fluency in utilization of optical design tools like Zemax, Code V etc. Over 10 years of experience required
  • Strong understanding of practical aspects of optical systems, including understanding of opto-mechanics systems, light sources including lasers, SLDs, LEDs and their drive characteristics, light sensors including CCDs, APDs and others
  • Demonstrated teamwork ability including working harmoniously in cross functional teams to achieve company level objectives is a must

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong background in molecular sensing techniques like spectroscopy, fluorescence and related is highly preferred.
  • Masters or higher degrees in a domain related to optical science or engineering are highly preferred.
  • Background in medical devices and understanding of ISO 13485 and FDA regulations is strongly preferred. Minimum 5 years in the medical device industry are highly preferred

What We Offer

  • Fully covered medical insurance plan, and dental & vision coverage (as a health-tech company, we place great worth on our team’s well-being)
  • Competitive salaried compensation (you should feel appropriately valued and excited to join us)
  • Equity (employees are important and should have a stake in our success)
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits (let’s make your commute costs more reasonable) 
  • Free onsite meals + kitchen stocked with snacks (sponsored brain fuel post-COVID, fingers crossed)
  • While we would love to see you face to face everyday, we are flexible and open to people being remote. We will always have opportunities to meet your coworkers off the screen at one of our many team outings. (no pressure though)
  • 401k plan (everyone should be encouraged to save for their retirement adventures)
  • The opportunity to build a revolutionary healthcare product and save millions of lives! 


For this role, we provide visa assistance for qualified candidates. 

How We Hire 

Introduction to our Recruiter

  • The first step in our process will be an introductory call with our Recruiter. This will be an opportunity for you to discuss your experience, what motivates you, what you are looking for in your next opportunity and ask any questions you may have. We will introduce you to Tesseract, who we are and why we’re so passionate about what we do! Our Recruiter will be your main point of contact throughout the interview process. They will be available to answer questions, address concerns and ensure you’re falling in love with Tesseract every step of the way!

Take-Home Assignment - If Applicable

  • Depending on the role you are interviewing for, we may ask you to complete a “take-home assignment” where you will be required to either solve, create, or strategize a problem. This part of the interview process will provide us with insight into how you tackle certain situations and will allow us to evaluate technical proficiencies. Our Recruiter will let you know if and when a take-home assignment may be required during the process. 

Meet The Team

  • Throughout the interview process, we’ll invite you to speak with many of our incredible team members! We believe it’s important to provide you with diverse perspectives on the role, our organization and life here at Tesseract. During these conversations, we will have more in depth discussions around your experience, qualifications and role requirements. These conversations will either take place onsite or via video conference as applicable and will be scheduled by your Recruiter. 

Final Meeting

  • This is it! We’d like to introduce you to our remarkable CEO, Vicky Demas! During this conversation, you will hear more about Tesseract, our values and our mission directly from Vicky. This is more of a conversation than an interview, ensuring you feel aligned with our mission and passionate about the work we’re doing. You can ask about Tesseract, what she loves about the med-tech world, her career path or what she does on a Saturday morning! Utilize this time to dig deep into Tesseract and get to know the leader of our groundbreaking organization.

References

  • Almost to the finish line! During the interview process, your Recruiter will ask you to prepare references to be contacted after your final meeting. These conversations will allow us to get a better sense of you and how you work best, while providing us with context on your past experience.

The Offer

  • Congratulations! If you have reached this point, we hope you are ready to join us and start revolutionizing the healthcare industry! Your Recruiter will be reaching out to share the great news, review your offer, discuss our benefits package and get you set up for next steps in our onboarding process. We are thrilled to have you on board!


Tesseract does not accept agency resumes.
Tesseract is an E-Verify and equal opportunity employer regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or Veteran status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Our office is located right in the heart of the Flatiron District and great restaurants! We are conveniently located by various train and bus stops.

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