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.
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This role develops optical technologies for ophthalmic medical devices, including fundus cameras and OCT optical coherence tomography systems. Responsibilities cover clinical and market research, specification planning and proposals, optical system concept development, optical design using ray-tracing software, and performance evaluation. The role also establishes component designs and adjustment methods for mass production, explores and prototypes future elemental technologies, and conducts or proposes patent research related to product and technology development.
The engineer gathers information through joint research, academic conferences, and interviews with customers and users. This information is used to assess market conditions and propose plans for future technologies and next-generation products. The work can extend across specification definition, product design, production, market response, and the preparation of standards and regulatory knowledge specific to medical devices.
Required experience includes at least one of the following: fundamentals of optics, wave optics, interferometers, or lens design. Additional experience or knowledge in image sensors and control, image signal processing and image analysis, machine learning or AI, lasers or SLD light sources, industrial standards, or applications and development of medical regulations is welcomed. English may be used for literature and standards research, communication with overseas sales companies and customers, and foreign medical-device approval procedures.
The engineer works with planning, mechanical, electrical and firmware, and software engineers. Productization also involves close coordination with quality departments, mass-production factories, and teams responsible for medical-device approvals. The position is within the development of ophthalmic imaging equipment for a medical-device business and offers a path toward project or team leadership through responsibility for product specifications and development processes.
The employment type is regular employee. Work locations are Canon’s Shimomaruko headquarters in Ota City, Tokyo, and the Kosugi site in Nakahara Ward, Kawasaki, Kanagawa. Working hours are 8:30 to 17:00. The annual salary is determined according to experience and ability; the listed annual range is 5.3 million to 8.7 million JPY. Overtime pay is provided separately except when hired as a managerial supervisor. Salary increases are once a year and bonuses are paid twice a year. The schedule includes a five-day workweek in principle on Saturdays and Sundays, national holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, a May holiday period, and summer leave, with 125 annual holidays. Benefits include paid leave, transportation and overtime allowances, social insurance, retirement and corporate pension programs, savings and employee stock ownership programs, education programs, childcare-related shortened working hours, welfare and sports facilities, and company mutual-aid and internal event programs.
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