photonics engineer
ISCO: 2149. Skills: 105. Essential: 41.
Essential skills
- adjust engineering designs
- analyse test data
- approve engineering design
- conduct literature research
- conduct quality control analysis
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- design drawings
- design optical prototypes
- design optical systems
- develop optical test procedures
- digital twin technology
- electronics
- engineering principles
- holography
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- lasers
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mathematics
- model optical systems
- operate open source software
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- optical components
- optical engineering
- optical equipment standards
- optical glass characteristics
- optical manufacturing process
- optics
- perform data analysis
- perform project management
- photonics
- physics
- prepare production prototypes
- read engineering drawings
- record test data
- refractive power
- report analysis results
- synthesise information
- test optical components
- think abstractly
- types of optical instruments
Supporting skills
- apply blended learning
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- build business relationships
- CAE software
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- communicate with customers
- computational mechanics
- computational physics
- conduct research across disciplines
- continuum mechanics
- coordinate engineering teams
- create technical plans
- define manufacturing quality criteria
- develop product design
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- digital camera sensors
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft bill of materials
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- electromagnetic spectrum
- electrooptic devices
- electrooptics
- evaluate research activities
- fibre optics
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interpret circuit diagrams
- LED lighting components
- maintain safe engineering watches
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- mathematical modelling
- medical imaging technology
- mentor individuals
- microoptics
- MOEM
- mount optical components on frames
- operate optical assembly equipment
- optoelectronic devices
- optoelectronics
- optomechanical components
- optomechanical engineering
- perform resource planning
- perform scientific research
- perform test run
- prepare assembly drawings
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- quality standards
- quantum computing
- quantum optics
- quantum technology
- resolve equipment malfunctions
- speak different languages
- supercomputing
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- train employees
- use CAD software
- use precision tools
- write scientific publications