Principal Electro Optical Engineer

4 weeks ago


San Diego, United States StaffWorks LLC Full time

In this role you will work with a highly interdisciplinary engineering team, developing and building novel, complex electro-optical systems. Combining your leadership skills, technical acumen, and guided by customer requirements, you will support the transition of new technologies into new products. You will work with complex electro- optical products that include lasers, detectors, embedded control, analog electronics, optics, and highly refined mechanics and packaging. You will work with a highly talented, collaborative, and multi-disciplinary engineering team to address problems and create solutions that help deliver new products into the marketplace.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical input to cross-functional development team in architecting, developing, testing, and analyzing complex electrical-optical systems.
  • Provide subject matter expertise in developing and evaluating system architectural trades in alignment with customer requirements and project constraints.
  • Own system electro-optical link budget and related requirement flow-down including detector sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio calculations.
  • Understand interplay of mechanical, thermal, electrical, and optical designs and components, and their interactions in a system to meet performance requirements.
  • Support development of flow-down system requirements as informed by system modeling efforts.
  • Participate in design starting from theoretical analysis and models to hands-on realization of deliverable hardware.
  • Support, communicate, reinforce, and defend the mission, values, and culture of the organization.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors Degree in engineering or related technical field with minimum 10 years of experience, preferably in optical or laser-related industry
  • Experience with detector & imager signal/image processing methods and related technologies Experience in optics and lasers: Involved with the overall development of laser-based optical systems. Collaborate with hardware design teams in selecting, designing, procuring, and qualifying components. Develop performance models and support development of test procedures in coordination with software & firmware teams.


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