Principal Electro Optical Engineer

2 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.

If you are interested in applying for this job, please make sure you meet the following requirements as listed below.

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:

  • Bachelor’s 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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