Senior Optical Engineer

Senior Optical Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company

Job ID:

00000441301

Date Posted:

2024-12-13

Location:

USA - Albuquerque, NM, USA - Kirtland AFB, NM

Job Description Qualifications:

Boeing seeks a Senior Optical Engineer to join our team that works out of both Albuquerque and Kirtland AFB, New Mexico to support advanced concepts development with optical design, analysis, integration, and test.  

This position will support modeling and simulation of optical systems, and analysis of test data to anchor models and develop improvements to existing optical systems.  You must have a broad skill set in multiple areas such as:

• infrared/electro-optical (IR/EO)
• visible, ultraviolet (UV)
• photonics
• fiber
• high energy laser
• optics technology
• focal plane arrays
• cryogenic cooling
• optical design
• fiber-optics
• lasers
• detectors
• pointing systems
• telescopes
• optical components
• interferometry
• high power sources and amplifiers
• target recognition
• scanning and staring sensors
• high band width atmospheric compensation
• optical communications
• optical measurement systems
• signal processing
• integrated optics
• laser radar
• adaptive optics
• opto-mechanics
• imaging and projection optics
• diffractive and nonlinear optics

You will interface with extremely talented, high performing, multi-disciplined engineering teams on start-of-the-art adaptive optics and optical imaging systems.

Position Responsibilities:

• Develop and validate electromagnetic requirements for electrical systems, electronic systems, mechanical systems, interconnects, and structures.  Develops architectures for system integration and component or hardware integration into higher level systems and platforms. 
• Coordinate with customer to establish key requirements and project objectives.
• Perform trade studies, modeling, simulation, and other forms of analysis to predict component, interconnects, and system performance and to optimize design around established requirements.
• Define and conduct critical tests of various kinds to validate performance of designs to requirements.
• Work with suppliers and partners to ensure compliance to requirements. 
• Validate and test system design.  Occasional night work is required.

To meet security standards and protocols, all work is performed onsite at both our Albuquerque LEOS and Kirtland AFB sites. 

This position requires an active Top Secret U.S. Security Clearance, for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship.  (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active.)

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering, engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology), chemistry, physics, mathematics, data science, or computer science.
• 5+ years of experience with optical design.
• 3+ years of experience with optical system architecture and requirements development, test, and verification.
• 3+ years of managing electro-optical development programs.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Master’s degree or higher in a related field of engineering.
• Experience working with adaptive optics systems.
• Experience designing and integrating optical systems.
• Optical System Integration:  knowledge of multi-discipline integration issues applicable to infrared/electro-optical (IR/EO), visible, ultraviolet (UV), photonics, fiber, high energy laser, and optics, including reliability, availability, maintainability, testability, supportability, mechanic