Optical Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Optical Engineer with Security Clearance
This is an Optical Assembly, Integration, and Test (AI&T) Engineer role for one-of-a-kind complex prototypes for imaging, communication, and/or directed energy applications. Responsibilities involve: planning and design in preparation for extensive assembly, integration, and test activities in laboratory clean rooms. Planning for optical system assembly, integration, and test: develop alignment approach, derive requirements, outline process flow, and develop any GSE needed.

Working with mechanical and opto-mechanical engineers to create mounts and assemblies with needed degrees of freedom and adjustment resolution. Executing assembly and alignment of free-space and fiber-optic optical assemblies, including integration of sensors and performance characterization. Specifying custom optical components such as mirrors, lenses, and filters, assessing supplier capabilities, and inspecting/testing procured optics. Working with free-space optical tooling such as interferometer, polarimeter, laser beam profiler, alignment telescope, and/or autocollimator.

Working with fiber optic cables and components, including test methods. Writing AI&T procedures, documenting build activities, and participating in troubleshooting and issue resolution. Running environmental test campaigns to characterize assemblies’ performance over operating and survival conditions (e.g, thermal cycling, altitude chamber, vibration, TVac).

Required Skills:

-Three-to-five years’ of optical AI&T experience
-Experience assembling, aligning, and testing refractive and re?ective optical components and systems.
-Working familiarity with optical alignment instruments such as interferometers, autocollimators, alignment telescopes, theodolites, pro?lometers and/or wavefront sensors.
-Broad understanding of optical fabrication techniques and shall be capable of evaluating vendors for custom manufacturing requirements.
-Experience performing incoming inspection on a variety of procured items and therefore needs a working knowledge of optical fabrication speci?cations.
-Ability to work effectively with small multi-disciplinary teams of engineers and specialists with varying experience levels. Preferred

Skills:

-Familiarity with optical design code (Zemax, CodeV etc) to establish component and alignment tolerances and/or troubleshoot any assembly’s performance issues.
-Preference will be given to candidates who have the above experience with space systems and/or lasercom systems. Other
-Candidate will be 100% onsite to work in the Labs
-Candidate can start with an interim clearance but there is a STRONG preference for candidates with existing Secret (or Top Secret) clearances. Candidate will clear up to TS after onboarding.
-Potential for occasional travel to domestic field sites to support meetings and next-level integration activities.
-Interview process: initial prescreen via zoom/phone; then onsite interview for final round. The team will entertain a second round zoom interview for candidates that are relocating for the position but local candidates should plan for onsite interviews.