# Optical Engineer, Design & Architecture

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Boulder, Colorado
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $143,000-$191,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Imaging team is seeking an Optical Engineer to focus on design and architecture in support of an expanding and maturing product line at a transition point from prototyping to maturity.

### Responsibilities

- Lead architecture decisions, optical trades for novel optical systems for broadly defined missions

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

- Understand and define optical performance requirements given multi-disciplinary engineering constraints

- Transition a high TRL prototype optical assembly to a production fieldable system

- Design and tolerance complex visible to infrared optical systems to meet performance requirements for ground & airborne applications

- Develop and review test setups, procedures, and data to transition products and systems from R&D to production

- Evaluate and analyze prototype and production optical system performance errors to determine root cause

- Work independently and collaborate with senior staff and leadership to solve interdisciplinary technical problems by serving as the Optical Engineering subject matter expert

### Required Qualifications

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

- MS or PhD preferred, but not required

- 5+ years of experience with complex opto-mechanical systems, performing optical system design, analysis, alignment and test in the workforce

- Experience building LIDAR, laser communications, or adaptive optics systems, with a strong understanding of pointing, acquisition, and tracking

- Expertise with optical design and analysis software, preferably Zemax or CodeV

- Experience with STOP (Structural, Thermal, and Optical Performance) analysis

- Knowledge of image quality metrics and data analysis methods

- Experience with the design of 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 (spectral transmission, interferometry, etc.), optical system alignment and testing (EE, MTF, PSF, etc.), and opto-electrical system modeling

- Demonstrated experience in the integration, test, and performance requirements verification and validation of optical systems

- 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 of optics (molded, polished, diamond turned) as well as microstructures

### Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including a comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) that ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

## Skills

### Required
- optical system design
- analysis
- alignment
- testing
- LIDAR
- laser communications
- adaptive optics
- Zemax
- CodeV
- STOP analysis
- image quality metrics
- data analysis methods
- diffraction-limited imaging systems

### Nice to have
- first principles approach
- optical component testing
- spectral transmission
- interferometry
- optical system alignment
- opto-electrical system modeling
- integration
- test
- performance requirements verification
- validation
- radiometry
- stray light analysis
- team leadership
- mentoring

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