Lidar And Atmospheric Characterization Engineer

Description:

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing, Developing, Testing, and deploying new imaging and sensor products, including optical, electro-optical, laser, and lidar systems

• Engaging in research, development, and analysis activities and providing technical guidance

• Working on hardest nation’s space challenges towards novel solutions

• Performing analytical studies, conducting tests, developing details of specifications, preparing details of analytical report findings

• Assisting in planning and development of studies and design projects

• Frequent inter-organizational and outside customer contacts on matters of importance

What You Need to be Successful

Minimum Requirements for the Member of the Technical Staff- Optical Engineering:

• PhD degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences, Optical Science or Physics is required

• A minimum of (2) years of industry work experience in one of these domains: remote sensing, optics, photonics, laser, or closely related fields is required

• Lead build process development of laser diodes, laser modules, and multi-laser systems

• Experience with lasers, laser safety, optical design, and detection (APD, SPAD, PMT)

• Proficiency in a programming language (such as Python, C++, MATLAB) for system control, system testing, and data analysis

• Demonstrate technical writing skills for effective communication of results

• Willingness to occasionally travel and to work off-business hours to support customer needs, approximately 10% during summer months (as required)

• This position requires ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.