Advanced Electro-Optical (EO) Systems Engineer

Stratos Solutions delivers mission-focused engineering, acquisition, and operations support to the Intelligence Community and national security space enterprise. As an employee-owned company, Stratos combines technical excellence, operational agility, and a deep commitment to customer mission success. Our teams work at the forefront of space and intelligence innovation supporting programs critical to national security.

Provide technical expertise supporting advanced Electro-Optical (EO) collection systems, payloads, and associated ground processing architectures.

Evaluate EO system performance, sensor capabilities, and mission effectiveness across the system lifecycle.

Support systems engineering activities including requirements development, architecture analysis, design reviews, integration, testing, and operational transition.

Assess technical approaches and engineering trade studies supporting future EO capability development.

Review technical documentation, interface specifications, architecture products, and engineering baselines.

Apply expertise in EO phenomenology, image formation, radiometry, optics, detector technologies, and sensor physics.

Evaluate the effects of atmospheric conditions, illumination geometry, environmental factors, and collection geometry on image quality and mission performance.

Analyze imaging performance metrics including spatial resolution, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), modulation transfer function (MTF), dynamic range, and radiometric performance.

Support calibration, characterization, and validation of EO sensor performance.

Advise Government stakeholders on the operational capabilities and limitations of EO collection systems.

Support integration of EO collection capabilities with GEOINT processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED) architectures.

Evaluate interoperability between collection systems, processing baselines, exploitation tools, and enterprise GEOINT services.

Support mission planning, collection optimization, and operational employment of EO capabilities.

Collaborate with mission operators to ensure technical solutions support operational mission requirements.

Assess impacts of system changes on downstream GEOINT exploitation workflows.

Conduct independent technical assessments of contractor designs, engineering solutions, and system performance.

Participate in technical interchange meetings, engineering reviews, architecture review boards, and acquisition milestone activities.

Identify technical risks and provide recommendations to improve system performance, reliability, maintainability, and mission effectiveness.

Develop technical reports, white papers, engineering assessments, and executive briefings supporting Government decision-making.

Support technology roadmaps and modernization planning for future EO capabilities.

Evaluate emerging EO sensor technologies, advanced focal plane arrays, computational imaging techniques, onboard processing, AI/ML-enabled exploitation, and cloud-based GEOINT architectures.

Assess opportunities to improve collection efficiency, image quality, automation, and mission responsiveness.

Maintain awareness of advances in commercial remote sensing, imaging technologies, and Intelligence Community GEOINT capabilities.

Provide technical recommendations supporting future capability investments and mission modernization.

Bachelor's Degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical discipline. (Relevant experience may substitute for degree requirements.)

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.