EO​/IR Laser Engineer

Relocation Assistance

Relocation assistance may be available.

Clearance required for start:
Yes. Clearance type:
Secret.

Travel up to 50% of the time may be required.

Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems has an opening for an EO/IR Laser Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Melbourne, FL. The EO/IR engineer reports to the Strategic Development (SD) Lead and is responsible for hardware/software integration and test in the laboratory, test bed and planeside. The EO/IR Engineer assists with planning, coordination, and analysis supporting development, integration, test, production, and flight test.

The selected candidate will be required to work full-time, on-site at our facility. There is NO remote / hybrid / telework available for this position. Travel up to 50% may be required.

• Demonstrate technical understanding in the field of EO/IR Lasers and Sensors related disciplines.
• Have effective communication skills and a demonstrated ability to clearly and concisely present technical approaches and findings.
• Collaborate with technical leadership on system requirements generation and associated flow down, subsystem design/analysis, and subsystem performance verification including lab and range testing.
• Support any stage of the aircraft system life cycle activity such as developing primary designs, integrating into a system, supporting fielding of the system, supporting airworthiness activity, and supporting testing of the systems.
• Coordinate and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure robust and maintainable configurations are produced.
• Attend internal program, customer and/or supplier technical exchange meetings and/or formal program milestone reviews to provide and/or obtain progress status updates.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline and 2 years of electrical engineering experience
• Or Master’s Degree in STEM and 0 years of experience
• Experience creating analysis tools with MATLAB or Python in the business qualification
• Experience with Integration and Test campaigns
• Must have an Active US Government Secret Clearance (with a background investigation within the past 6 years or enrolled into Continuous Evaluation).
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance, within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs.

• Experience with optical test equipment, metrology related to optical sensing and laser characterization including power, energy, and pulse-width.
• IR Cameras from the SWIR band through LWIROptical alignment techniques for characterizing laser boresight in the near and far-field.
• Measuring laser beam spot size and divergence.
• Spectrometer operation, signal generation and verification with an oscilloscope, photodetectors, optical table construction with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware.
• IR material selection, safe use and operation of Class IV lasers.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Optical/Laser Engineering or Master’s Degree in Optical/Laser Engineering.
• Ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret security clearance.
• Experience with Matlab, Zemax, Atlassian SW suite, labview.
• Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA).
• Experience with ruggedization of opto-mechanical systems with low SWaP.
• Familiarity with nonlinear optics and harmonic generation.
• Integration of optical and sensor subsystems components into various types of aircraft applications. Performing integration related tasks in the lab.

Primary Level Salary Range: $79,300.00 - $. The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions. Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit  U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.