Albedo

Lead Optical Analysis Engineer

Albedo

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado

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Salary

💰 $194,634 - $213,171 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Assembly

About the role

  • Responsible for interpretation and analysis of STOP results to and sensitivity analysis to determine next steps in design iteration
  • Work with team to understand details of design causing results and iterate to optimize the design
  • Obscuration analysis for Verity opto-mechanical design
  • Line of Sight analysis for Verity opto-mechanical design
  • Field Angle Map analysis for Verity opto-mechanical design
  • Emissivity analysis of payload for LWIR imaging
  • Converting all low-level WFE contributions of opto-mechanical design into simplified WFE budget, mapping non-perfect aspects of designs into rms WFE space including thermal-structural dynamics and identifying unquantified terms and impact/path forward
  • Develop and perform Monte Carlo WFE prediction from current RSS WFE prediction
  • Manage WFE budget as design progresses to re-allocate terms which can and cannot meet original allocation
  • Allocate WFE margin as design matures
  • Create merit function for existing system design
  • WFE accounting for the 1g mission and associated uncertainty, each of the different major alignment step missions, and the post-environmental test mission, in addition to the normal 0g mission
  • Produce overall predicted system WFE maps, including step-by-step expectations per alignment plan – Including 1g to 0g analytical prediction
  • Analyze AIT environmental impacts to alignment measurement error

Requirements

  • 5-10+ years of experience working optical system analysis and optimization
  • Familiarity with various optical design and analysis software tools
  • Deep understanding of optical sensitivities, aberrations and what effects them in mechanical design/implementation
  • Experience with WFE budgets, allocation and budget management
  • Experience with STOP modeling and the iterative, multi-disciplinary process
  • Hands on experience optimizing optical systems to reduce aberrations and WFE
  • Regularly uses AI tools as essential leverage to accelerate work, improve clarity, and multiply output
  • Must verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete employment eligibility verification form upon hire
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
  • Ability to work on-site full-time in Denver; travel to other possible non-Albedo locations may be required