optical engineer
ISCO: 2149. Skills: 118. Essential: 33.
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
- develop optical test procedures
- engineering principles
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- 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 project management
- physics
- prepare production prototypes
- record test data
- refractive power
- report analysis results
- synthesise information
- test optical components
- think abstractly
- types of optical instruments
Supporting skills
- acoustics
- apply blended learning
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply technical communication skills
- build business relationships
- CAE software
- cavity optomechanics
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- communicate with customers
- computer engineering
- conduct research across disciplines
- control engineering
- coordinate engineering teams
- create technical plans
- define manufacturing quality criteria
- design optical systems
- develop electronic test procedures
- 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
- electronic equipment standards
- electronics
- 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
- lasers
- maintain optical equipment
- maintain safe engineering watches
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- mechanical engineering
- medical imaging technology
- mentor individuals
- microelectromechanical systems
- microelectronics
- microoptics
- microprocessors
- microsensors
- microwave principles
- MOEM
- mount optical components on frames
- operate optical assembly equipment
- operate precision machinery
- operate precision measuring equipment
- optical instruments
- optoelectronic devices
- optoelectronics
- optomechanical components
- optomechanical engineering
- perform data analysis
- perform resource planning
- perform scientific research
- perform test run
- photonics
- precision mechanics
- 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 optics
- radars
- read engineering drawings
- resolve equipment malfunctions
- sell optical products
- semiconductors
- sensors
- speak different languages
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- telecommunications engineering
- train employees
- use CAD software
- use precision tools
- write scientific publications