Sr. EO/IR Systems Engineer

Required:

• BS/BA in physics, engineering, or other relevant technical degree
• Minimum 10 years' experience in electro-optics, infrared systems, or a related field. An advanced degree may count towards years of experience.
• A solid foundation in the principles of optics, sensors, and EO/IR sensing systems with application to ground, air, or space systems
• Experience with physical modeling, simulation, and analysis
• Systems engineering experience on EO/IR system hardware development efforts in one or more of the following areas: establishing, maintaining, and flowing down requirements; leading and executing trade studies; failure mode and root cause and corrective action analysis; product lifecycle support; test plan and procedure development.
• Laboratory experience with optical systems test, optical test equipment, and optical test components for active and/or passive optical systems
• Experience developing optical error budgets
• Ability to set priorities and organize incoming projects
• Ability to communicate system requirements, testing needs, debug information, and design concepts with other engineering disciplines.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Windows, and a high level of proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to communicate with vendors and customer teams and demonstrate system performance through leading or supporting factory and site acceptance testing.
• Ability to travel to customer facilities (5-15%)

Preferred:

• Advanced degree in physics, engineering, or other relevant technical degree
• Technical leadership experience, including high-level project planning, technical mentorship, and supporting technical roadmap development
• Experience and/or expertise in opto-mechanical design, analysis (STOP analysis), and tolerancing
• Experience and/or expertise with EO/IR technology, imaging, radiometry, and calibration techniques.
• Proficiency with C-based (C/C++), MATLAB, and/or Python programming languages
• Proficiency with image processing and/or image analysis software
• Experience and/or expertise with optical design and simulation analysis tools (Zemax or equivalent)
• Experience and/or expertise of MEMS and/or photolithography fabrication processes and packaging of integrated circuits (ICs)
• Experience and/or expertise with electronics, including ICs, microcontrollers, FPGAs, and high-throughput data transfer

• →Develops product architecture, system requirements, and performs requirements decomposition and flowdown for complex EO/IR test systems
• →Performs system performance modeling, trade studies, and requirements flow down analysis to support product development
• →Works with electrical, mechanical, and software engineering staff to guide both new product development and sustaining efforts for standard product
• →Works with the technical team to optimize process flow and documentation
• →Develops test plans and procedures based on system requirements
• →Collects and analyzes test data, and calibrates for optimal system performance
• →Interacts directly with customers during factory acceptance testing and travels to customer facilities to lead on-site system installation, integration and training
• →Performs troubleshooting, test, and calibration in support of ongoing programs, as well as special-purpose programs
• →Performs analysis to support Sales in efforts to identify solutions to potential customers' applications