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About the Role
Join a defense technology team developing autonomous directed-energy systems. You will lead optical design and investigations for hardware platforms, applying strong optical judgment to help deliver robust systems beyond the lab.
Responsibilities
- Lead optical design and analysis for core system components.
- Drive optical investigations, trade studies, and system-level design decisions.
- Specify and evaluate optical components and subsystem architectures.
- Partner with mechanical engineers on optical packaging, housing, and integration.
- Perform tolerance analysis, validate performance, and guide design iterations.
- Lead or support alignment, characterization, and testing of integrated optical systems.
- Work with vendors and fabricators on manufacturability, tolerancing, and component feasibility.
- Establish practical approaches for optical development, validation, and technical documentation.
Requirements
- Typically 5 to 10 or more years of senior-level experience in optical engineering, optical design, or related physics-based systems work.
- Demonstrated experience designing and analyzing optical systems built and operated as real hardware, including precision alignment, characterization, and hardware debugging.
- Ability to apply optical theory from first principles and lead investigations that inform system-level decisions.
- Experience with optical components and subsystem architectures, vendor collaboration, tolerance analysis, and performance validation.
- Experience collaborating with mechanical engineers on packaging, housing, and integration.
- Relevant experience may include high-power laser optics, ruggedized beam delivery, beam directors, collimators, fast steering mirrors, adaptive optics, or laser communications terminals.
- Experience with Zemax/OpticStudio or Code V, and 1-micron Yb fiber laser systems, is valuable.
Skills
- Optical design
- Optical analysis
- Optical investigations
- System-level design
- Optical components specification
- Subsystem architectures evaluation
- Optical packaging
- Optical housing
- Optical integration
- Tolerance analysis
- Performance validation
- Design iteration guidance
- Alignment
- Characterization
- Testing of integrated optical systems
- Manufacturability assessment
- Vendor collaboration
- Component feasibility assessment
- Optical development
- Optical validation
- Technical documentation
- Zemax/OpticStudio
- Code V
- 1-micron Yb fiber laser systems
Location
- San Francisco, California
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- Senior-level
Education Level
- BS or MS in Optical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 to $200,000 annually
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
About the Company
- Defense technology team developing autonomous directed-energy systems.