EO Optical Engineer I

About the Role

The Electro-Optics (EO) Department is responsible for requirements decomposition, detailed design, and production support of EO Sensors/Seekers, including detectors, cryogenic systems, and structures.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate as mentee and Individual Contributor supporting program activities.
• Optical alignment/testing of optics assemblies.
• EO modeling, simulation, and analysis applications.
• Requirements development, requirement validation, and subsystem trade studies.
• Design of optical and opto-mechanical seeker systems and/or test fixtures for missiles.
• Working with engineering and production personnel to troubleshoot and provide root cause and corrective action to design and process issues.
• Support production related activities in the assembly and documentation of electro-optical subsystems.
• Troubleshooting hardware and process issues down to CCA and component levels.
• Resolution of issues on production lines and in testing (including suppliers).
• Failure analysis / root cause determination and corrective action implementation.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or related Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) major obtained prior to start.
• Experience with Electro-Optical subsystems.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Ability to obtain INTERIM U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.

Qualifications We Prefer

• ABET is the preferred accreditation standard.
• 3.0 cumulative GPA desired.
• Ability to develop and present technical briefings.
• Current/Active DoD security clearance or SSBI.
• Experience in troubleshooting investigations and processes.
• Experience with test equipment, test automation scripting, test conduction, sensor control.