Optical Systems Technical Lead, AR/VR Displays - EagleEyeActive$292K

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

Our Warfighter Systems division is pioneering a future where mixed reality (MR), creates immersive, intuitive, and life-saving technologies. By seamlessly integrating real-time data with cutting-edge visualization tools, we are empowering warfighters with unparalleled…

What you'll do

  • Lead architecture decisions and optical trades for novel near-to-eye display: sub-systems against broadly defined missions.

  • Own the optical system across its full lifecycle: not just architecture and design, but integration, alignment, test, and successful verification and validation (V&V) of as-built hardware. You are accountable for the system working , not only for the design being sound.

  • Define optical performance requirements given multi-disciplinary engineering: constraints, and flow them down into component and subassembly specifications within mechanical, electrical, thermal, and industrial design limits.

  • Build and defend the optical error budget for the system, allocating: tolerance across components, assembly processes, and alignment operations.

  • Partner closely and continuously with optical process engineering: co-developing manufacturing and metrology processes, grounding tolerances in real process capability, and closing the loop between design intent and what the production line can actually build. This partnership is central to the role, not a hand-off at the end.

  • Own the correlation between model and measured hardware, closing the loop: between predicted and as-built performance so that each design iteration is more predictive than the last.

What they're looking for

  • MS or PhD preferred, but not required.
  • Demonstrated first-principles approach to complex opto-mechanical problems.
  • Direct experience partnering with optical process / manufacturing engineering: to carry designs into volume production.
  • Optical component testing experience (spectral transmission, interferometry,: etc.), optical system alignment and testing (EE, MTF, PSF, etc.), and opto-electrical system modeling.
  • Experience with radiometry and stray light analysis.
  • Demonstrated team leadership and mentoring of junior staff.
  • Knowledge of common materials used in optical systems and the limitations of: fabrication methods for optics (molded, polished, diamond-turned) as well as micro-structures.