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About the Role
We are seeking a motivated Optical Engineer to support the design, analysis, and development of advanced optical and electro-optical systems for aerospace and defense applications. This role focuses on optical system architecture, performance modeling, optical analysis, and technical problem-solving throughout the product development lifecycle, with additional support for integration, alignment, and test activities.
Responsibilities
- Lead or support optical engineering activities for advanced imaging, sensing, and electro-optical systems.
- Support system performance analysis and verification of key optical requirements.
- Contribute to assessment of optical systems for system design and verification efforts.
- 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.
- Support hardware builds, laboratory demonstrations, integration efforts, and verification campaigns.
- Interface with internal stakeholders, external partners, and suppliers to coordinate technical execution and ensure requirements are clearly understood and met.
- Contribute to risk identification, mitigation planning, and continuous improvement of engineering processes and test methods.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide guidance in optical analysis, test execution, and engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
- Ability to obtain a federal security clearance.
Skills
- Optical system engineering
- Complex imaging or sensing systems
- Stray light analysis and control
- FRED
- CodeV
- Zemax OpticStudio
- Matlab
- Python
- 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
- Zygo Mx
- QED.NET
- Project management aspects of technology development programs
- Estimating and managing costs
- Creating and managing schedules
- Optical Engineering design and analysis experience with EO/IR space-based payloads, vehicle systems, and/or high performance imaging systems.
Location
- Rochester, New York
Work Type
- 9/80 (Every Other Friday Off!)
Experience Level
- Senior Specialist
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Graduate Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $97,000 - $180,000
Benefits
- Health and disability insurance
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- EAP
- Education assistance
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Company-paid holidays
About the Company
- L3Harris