Topcon Healthcare sees eye health differently. Our vision is to empower providers with smart and efficient technologies for enhanced patient care. Keeping pace with the ever-changing landscape of the healthcare industry, we offer the latest integrated solutions including advanced multimodal imaging, vendor-neutral data management and groundbreaking remote diagnostic technology. A globally-oriented business, Topcon is focused on developing solutions towards solving societal challenges in the mega-domains of healthcare, agriculture, and infrastructure. In healthcare, these challenges include increasing eye disease, rising medical costs, access to healthcare and physician shortages. By investing in value-driven innovations, Topcon works to enable people to enjoy good health and a high quality of life.

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Duties:

• Generate new ideas, product concepts and build laboratory test beds or prototypes to demonstrate proof-of-concept.
• Identify, evaluate, and assimilate new technology and use creative problem-solving skills to develop innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for cross-functional teams in the development of R&D prototypes.
• Analyze and verify system performance through simulation and measurement.
• Perform trade-off analysis of technology and design alternatives for new products/platforms.
• Provide strong support to ensure seamless transition of new technology concepts towards product development.
• Identify and work with external vendors to apply existing and developing concepts to Ophthalmic products.
• Review current developments in the diagnostic ophthalmic industry and report findings.
• Collaboration with external researchers in universities and research institutes for joint technology development
• Analyze and develop new intellectual property, including documentation of new ideas and filing patents.

Requirements:

• PhD in Physics, Optics, Electrical Engineering or Biomedical Engineering with 0-3 years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with medical imaging such as ultrasound, MRI or CT is desirable. Experience with Ophthalmic Imaging and/or Optical Coherence Tomography is a strong plus.
• Experience using Visual Studio, Qt Creator and embedded development environment is desired. Algorithm development experience in C++ and CUDA is a strong plus.
• Experience with image processing, computer vision, and machine learning is highly desired.
• Experience with medical device early stage product development, pilot production, and good documentation practices
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to find creative solutions to difficult problems.
• Firm grasp of optics, imaging, and system design fundamentals.
• Highly skilled in using mathematical modeling and optical design tools such as Matlab, C++ and/or ZEMAX.
• Must have good oral and written presentation/communication skills.
• Individual must be able to work independently as well as in a team-oriented and goal-oriented manner.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and communicate effectively (written and verbal) across multiple locations and teams

Topcon is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.