Senior Optical Engineer, Design & ArchitecturePosted today$220K
The opportunity
The Anduril Imaging team develops state-of-the-art imaging systems across both hardware and software, deployed to tackle the most significant security challenges of America and its allies. The team is heavily involved in utilizing computer vision, perception, electro-optical,…
What you'll do
Lead architecture decisions, optical trades for novel optical systems for broadly defined missions
Design lenses and optical components for high performance imaging systems
Understand and define optical performance requirements given multi-disciplinary engineering constraints
Transition a high TRL prototype optical assembly to a production fieldable system.
Design and tolerance complex visible to infrared optical systems to meet: performance requirements for ground & airborne applications
Develop and review test setups, procedures, and data to transition products and systems from R&D to production
What they're looking for
- Demonstrated first principles approach to complex opto-mechanical problems
- Optical component testing experience (spectral transmission, interferometry,: etc.), optical system alignment and testing (EE, MTF, PSF, etc.), and opto-electrical system modeling
- Demonstrated experience in the integration, test, and performance: requirements verification and validation of optical systems
- Experience with radiometry and stray light analysis
- Demonstrated team leadership experience and mentoring of junior staff
- Knowledge of common materials used in optical systems and limitations of: fabrication methods of optics (molded, polished, diamond turned) as well as micro structures