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About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated Lead Optical Engineer to support the design, analysis, and development of advanced optical and electro-optical systems for aerospace and defense applications. This role is centered on stray light analysis and control methods, with primary responsibilities in optical system modeling, performance analysis, and non-sequential evaluation to ensure mission-critical system performance in challenging operational environments. The ideal candidate has a strong background in optical system engineering and experience with complex imaging or sensing systems across design, test, and verification.
Responsibilities
- Lead or support optical engineering activities for advanced imaging, sensing, and electro-optical systems.
- Lead development of non-sequential stray light and radiometric models for active and passive imaging systems, including assessment of scattering, ghosting, and optical throughput for space-based payloads.
- Support system performance analysis and verification of key optical requirements such as wavefront error, line of sight, distortion, focus, focal length, image quality, and related optical performance metrics.
- Perform end-to-end optical performance analyses that connect design features to mission-level image quality, signal-to-noise, and sensitivity outcomes, and communicate resulting risks, margins, and mitigation recommendations to program teams.
- Contribute to assessment of optical system behavior including ghosting, scattering, and stray light performance, as needed for system design and verification efforts.
- Support design trades for baffles, stops, surface treatments, contamination control, and alignment strategies to reduce stray light and preserve radiometric and optical performance through integration, test, and environmental exposure.
- Generate and review technical documentation including test plans, procedures, error budgets, requirements verification artifacts, design review materials, and final reports.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure optical designs are manufacturable, testable, and fully integrated into the broader system architecture.
- Provide technical leadership in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of optical performance issues during development and test.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
- In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- 2-3 years of relevant experience in optical stray light analysis tools such as FRED
- Ability to obtain a federal security clearance
Skills
- Optical stray light analysis tools such as FRED
- Active Secret or Top Secret/SCI clearance
- Design, manufacture, integration, test and sell-off of space-based EO/IR subsystems
- Optical metrology equipment (interferometers, autocollimators, laser trackers)
- Phase retrieval techniques
- Specialized metrology software, including Zygo Mx and QED.NET
- Optical Design software such as CodeV, Zemax OpticStudio
- Ability to collaborate across all levels of leadership
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Estimating and managing costs
- Creating and managing schedule
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is highly desirable
- Optical Engineering experience with EO/IR space-based payloads, vehicle systems, and/or high performance imaging systems
- Programming languages such as Matlab and Python
- Optical scatter mechanisms
- BSDF/BRDF concepts
- Ghost path analysis
- Interaction between optical design choices and system-level performance
Location
- Rochester, New York
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience (with Bachelor's Degree)
- Minimum 7 years of prior related experience (with Graduate Degree)
- Minimum 13 years of prior related experience (in lieu of degree)
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Graduate Degree
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Relocation bonus