Senior Optical Designer | DELFT / HYBRID

TNO • Delft, South Holland, Netherlands • Posted June 06, 2026

Location Delft, South Holland
Job Type Full-time
Category Art and Design Workers
Posted June 06, 2026

About this position

With a background in optical physics or engineering, you will be an optical designer within the Optics department, which consists of 60 colleagues, with whom you will work closely. You will also be in regular contact with optical manufacturing, system engineers, thermal and mechanical engineers, and calibration and integration specialists from the Opto-mechatronics, Semiconductor Equipment Lifetime/Metrology, Quantum Technology and Space Systems Engineering departments. Customers include ITER, Airbus, NASA and ESA. 

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What will be your role?

As an optical designer you will be initiating and executing the optical design process for optical systems for imaging and illumination. This process ranges from requirements discovery and budget allocation together with the System Engineer through paraxial and nominal design to a final, toleranced design with an accompanying alignme...

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