# Optical Systems Technical Lead, AR/VR Displays - EagleEye

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

Join Anduril's Warfighter Systems division as an Optical Systems Technical Lead, AR/VR Displays, in Bellevue, Washington. You will lead the development and optimization of advanced display test and calibration processes for mixed reality applications.

## Responsibilities

- Lead architecture decisions and optical trades for novel near-to-eye display sub-systems.

- Own the optical system across its full lifecycle, including integration, alignment, test, and verification.

- Define optical performance requirements and flow them down into component specifications.

- Build and defend the optical error budget for the system.

- Partner with optical process engineering to co-develop manufacturing and metrology processes.

- Own the correlation between model and measured hardware performance.

- Evaluate and analyze prototype and production optical system performance errors.

## Travel Requirements

- Regular international travel, approximately every one to two months, to Taiwan to work with optical process engineering and production teams.

## Required Qualifications

- BS in Engineering with a concentration in Optics.

- Relevant experience in complex optical system design, analysis, alignment, and test.

- Demonstrated ownership across the full systems-engineering lifecycle.

- Experience with optical design and analysis software (Zemax or CODE V).

- Experience with STOP analysis.

- Knowledge of image quality metrics and data analysis methods.

- Experience with diffraction-limited imaging systems in dynamic environments.

- Willingness and ability to travel internationally on a regular cadence.

## Preferred Qualifications

- MS or PhD in a relevant field.

- Demonstrated first-principles approach to complex opto-mechanical problems.

- Direct experience partnering with optical process engineering.

- Experience with optical component testing, system alignment and testing, and opto-electrical system modeling.

- Radiometry and stray light analysis experience.

- Team leadership and mentoring experience.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary: $220,000-$292,000 USD per year

- Comprehensive benefits package

- Equity grants included in full-time offers

## Skills

### Required
- optics
- optical system design
- analysis
- alignment
- test
- Zemax
- CODE V
- STOP analysis
- image quality metrics
- diffraction-limited imaging systems

### Nice to have
- first-principles approach
- opto-mechanical problems
- optical process engineering
- radiometry
- stray light analysis
- team leadership
- mentoring

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