Check out this new opportunity!Senior Optical Systems Engineer
On-site in El Segundo, CA
Target salary range: $121,000 - $260,000
The Optical Engineering Team supports spacecraft programs, studies, proposals, and IRAD efforts by leading optical systems engineering for EO/IR payloads, laser systems, optical communications terminals, and space vehicle interfaces.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and validate mission-level and unit-level requirements for Electro-Optical/Infrared sensors, laser rangefinders, Optical Communications Terminals, and spacecraft interfaces.
- Model and simulate optical system performance, including mission phenomenology, detection performance, spectral/spatial/radiometric sensor attributes, and link performance.
- Define, plan, and execute ground and on-orbit testing to verify optical system performance.
- Serve as the primary technical interface between optical payload teams, spacecraft teams, mission systems engineering, manufacturing, test, and mission data processing teams.
- Support design, integration, qualification, calibration, and performance validation of satellite optical hardware, including EO/IR payloads, star trackers, laser rangefinders, and optical sensor suites.
- Determine onboard and ground image/data processing approaches needed to meet mission requirements.
- Manage supplier and partner performance, including technical progress, schedule, budget, and deliverables.
- Support large-scale new business proposals and internal research and development efforts.
Qualifications:
- U.S. Citizenship is required by Federal Law
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physical Sciences, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance; U.S. Citizenship is required. Interim and/or final U.S. Secret clearance post-start is required.
- 7+ years of industry experience in optical engineering.
- Experience with space-to-space and/or space-to-ground laser communications.
- Experience with space-based EO sensor performance, phenomenology, modeling, simulation, analysis, or calibration.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience with satellite optical instrumentation, design, integration, testing, operation, or performance validation.
- Experience developing and maintaining an Optical Communications Terminal link budget.
- On-orbit experience operating or validating Optical Communications Terminals.
- Experience with EO/IR payloads, star trackers, laser rangefinders, optical sensor suites, or satellite optical hardware.
- Experience with onboard or ground processing of optical data to extract mission-related information.
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
- Experience mentoring or training optical engineering team members.
Moseley Technical Services, Inc. is an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled Employer
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