# Senior Optical Engineer, Design & Architecture

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Waltham, Massachusetts
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Anduril Imaging team designs and deploys advanced imaging systems using computer vision, perception, electro-optical, infrared, and sensor data to aid security efforts.

We are seeking a Senior Optical Engineer to focus on design and architecture for an expanding product line transitioning from prototyping to maturity.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead architecture decisions and optical trades for novel optical systems

- Design lenses and optical components for high-performance imaging systems

- Define optical performance requirements considering multi-disciplinary engineering constraints

- Transition high-TRL prototype optical assemblies to production fieldable systems

- Design and tolerance complex visible to infrared optical systems for ground and airborne applications

- Develop and review test setups, procedures, and data for product transitions

- Evaluate and analyze prototype and production optical system performance errors

- Collaborate with senior staff and leadership as an Optical Engineering subject matter expert

**Required Qualifications**

- BS in Engineering or Physics/Astronomy with a concentration in Optics

- MS or PhD preferred

- 5+ years of experience with complex opto-mechanical systems

- Experience building wide field MWIR, LWIR, or multiband imaging optical systems

- Expertise with optical design and analysis software (Zemax or CodeV)

- Experience with STOP analysis

- Knowledge of image quality metrics and data analysis methods

- Experience with diffraction-limited imaging systems in dynamic environments

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

**Preferred Qualifications**

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

- Optical component testing experience

- 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

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package

- Highly competitive equity grants

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees

## Skills

### Required
- Optical system design
- Analysis and alignment
- Optical performance requirements
- STOP analysis
- Image quality metrics
- Diffraction-limited imaging systems
- U.S. Secret security clearance
- Zemax or CodeV

### Nice to have
- First-principles approach
- Optical component testing
- Radiometry and stray light analysis
- Team leadership
- Mentoring junior staff
- Knowledge of optical materials and fabrication methods

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