Develop electrical hardware, image sensors, FPGA, firmware and AI-based image processing for professional video cameras, including cinema, broadcast, IP remote and surveillance products. Collaborate with mechanical, software, evaluation, production and overseas teams.
About this role
This role designs housings, mechanisms, chassis, lens barrels and circuit boards for mirrorless cameras, compact cameras, new-concept cameras and camera peripherals. Responsibilities include mechanical design with 3D-CAD, circuit-board design with board CAD, simulation evaluation using 3D-CAD and other tools, performance studies and evaluation, and development or modification of tools.
The work is organized by product project, with mechanical and circuit-board designers sharing responsibilities within teams. Collaboration includes design, electrical, software development, evaluation and production-factory departments during new-product development.
The role also covers exploring, designing and prototyping future elemental technologies. Depending on the project, the person may contribute from product-concept proposals through productization studies, including concepts beyond existing cameras. Patent searches and proposals related to new technologies in product and elemental-technology development are also included. Career development may lead toward product-specification coordination, development-process promotion and project-leader responsibilities.
Required experience includes operating 3D-CAD or circuit-board design CAD and product-level design experience in at least one of exterior, housing, mechanism, lens-barrel or circuit-board design. Product-design practice, parts-manufacturing experience, circuit-board design practice, and development experience involving cameras or optical equipment are welcomed.
Related technical areas named in the posting include mechanism, thermal, vibration-isolation, noise-reduction, miniaturization and lightweight design; exterior design, decoration technology, fluid mechanics, CAE analysis and mold knowledge; high-density mounting, flexible printed-circuit-board design, EMC対応 and harness design; optical, lens-barrel and drive-mechanism design; motors, encoders and feedback control.
The position is full-time at Canon's headquarters in Shimomaruko, Ota-ku, Tokyo. Working hours are 8:30–17:00, or 8:00–16:30 depending on the site. The annual salary range is 5.3–8.7 million yen; overtime pay is provided separately except when hired as a supervisory manager. Salary treatment is determined based on experience and ability. The posting states that some flexibility in work styles, including work from home, is available. Holidays include weekends in principle, public holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, a May holiday period and summer vacation, with 125 annual holidays. Benefits include transportation and overtime allowances, social insurance, retirement benefits, a corporate pension, savings programs, an employee stock ownership plan, mutual aid, training, childcare-related reduced working hours, recreation facilities and company events.
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