Structural Engineer III
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Senior Optical Engineer
Albedo
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado
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💰 $151,417 - $167,708 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Collaborate closely with opto-mechanical, thermal, structural, production, optical and systems engineers to a producible design that meets performance requirements
- Work collaboratively with Albedo’s optical and mechanical hardware teams to develop, modify and refine optical system models
- Oversee optical modeling and analysis results and adapt as required to production and build techniques
- Support alignment sensitivity studies
- Perform optical modeling to quickly determine solutions to issues that arise during build and test
- Support design for producibility and development of optical infrastructure for low-rate production
- Support detailed engineering design unit (EDU) preparation and build: optical test design, alignment pass/fail metrics, EDU and test equipment material BOMs, hardware builds, test to validate alignment tolerances, sensitivities, and overall reduce risk for our first article build
- Create PL work instructions to guide the team on the first and subsequent builds
- Hands on optical alignment and validation
- Use advanced optical alignment and performance measurement equipment and software tools
- Iteration of alignment results and design as needed with analysis models
- Hire, train and manage optical technicians
Requirements
- Regularly uses AI tools as essential leverage to accelerate work, improve clarity, and multiply output
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Optical Engineering, Physics, or similar
- 5+ years experience in space-based optical system development/production
- Proficient in optical design software (Zemax OpticStudio preferred)
- Familiarity with optical analysis tools and methods
- Understanding of environmental impacts on optical performance (thermal gradients, vibration, contamination)
- Knowledge of optical fabrication, metrology, and alignment techniques
- US citizenship or lawful permanent resident or protected individual per 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
