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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| optical-engineer | Occupational skill for the role 'optical engineer' (also: optics engineer, optical technology engineer, optical engineering specialist, optical engineering expert, optical technology engineering expert, optical technology engineering specialist). Use when the user asks for typical optical engineer work such as: Analyze, fabricate, or test fiber-optic links.; Design electro-optical sensing or imaging systems.; Determine commercial, industrial, scientific, or other uses for electro-optical applications or devices. |
Optical Engineer
Optical engineers design and develop different industrial applications with optics. They have knowledge of light, light transmission principles, and optics in order to design engineering specs of equipment such as microscopes, lenses, telescopes, and other optical devices.
Core workflow
- Analyze, fabricate, or test fiber-optic links.
- Design electro-optical sensing or imaging systems.
- Determine commercial, industrial, scientific, or other uses for electro-optical applications or devices.
- Conduct research on new photonics technologies.
- Design, integrate, or test photonics systems or components.
- Analyze system performance or operational requirements.
- Conduct testing to determine functionality or optimization or to establish limits of photonics systems or components.
- Design gas lasers, solid state lasers, infrared, or other light emitting or light sensitive devices.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
- See references/ai-skills.md — matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
Key competences (essential)
- adjust engineering designs
- analyse test data
- approve engineering design
- conduct literature research
- conduct quality control analysis
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- design drawings
- design optical prototypes
- develop optical test procedures
- engineering principles
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mathematics
- model optical systems
Hot technologies
- SAS
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
- C
- Go
- Microsoft .NET Framework
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Microsoft Outlook
- ESRI ArcGIS software
Hot technologies
Top tools from 57 gated job ads (see references/market.md, as of 2026-07-18):
- Zemax — 42 %
- Code V — 30 %
- MATLAB — 26 %
- Python — 26 %
- FRED — 18 %
- LightTools — 7 %
- COMSOL — 5 %
- Microsoft Excel — 5 %
- Solidworks — 5 %
- Zemax OpticStudio — 5 %
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/ab3c4d3e-3189-47ad-82af-57cdae3cb589), ONET 30.3 (17-2199.07). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*