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Optical Systems Engineer
K2 Space
Los Angeles, USA
Senior · 8+ years experience
USD 110000-280000 / year
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Responsibilities
- Responsible for delivering the...
- system architecture, SNR budget, and system-specific modeling (ex. stray light, fiber coupling);
- detailed optical design and tolerancing;
- development plan (risk reduction timeline, division of labor, test strategy);
- environmental qualification and reliability testing;
- technical leadership of vendors and external partners, including component qualification, supply-chain development, and transition to volume manufacturing; and
- laboratory characterization, system-level validation, mission readiness, and on-orbit commissioning plan
- ... of optical benches for a suite of high-volume optical payloads operating in the UV / VIS / NIR / SWIR / MWIR / LWIR.
- Collaborate with the optical and satellite bus teams to determine feasibility and optimal system requirements for optical payloads.
- Prepare design reviews for your optical system to get stakeholder buy-in and communicate expectations to the hardware, software, test, and manufacturing teams.
- Forecast staffing needs, define roles, and interview candidates to ensure the optical payloads team is staffed appropriately to deliver on schedule.
- Mentor the engineers supporting you to make them more capable and autonomous in the realm of optical system development in the future – scoping work, providing feedback throughout, and reviewing and signing off on the quality of their work.
- Manufacturing is a major emphasis of this role. For any in-house fabrication and assembly, you’ll be responsible for the evaluation and selection of manufacturing equipment and working with the production team to develop a factory layout, work instructions, in-process checkouts, and end-of-line tests to ensure successful builds.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in physics, optics, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience in the design, manufacture, and test of optical systems.
- Experience designing and deploying optical systems at every phase of the product life cycle (requirements generation, design, analysis, tolerance, procure, build, align, test, deploy, operate).
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