Senior Optics Engineer

El Segundo, CAfull timeOn Site

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$150k–$190k

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Spacekinetic Senior Optics Engineer responsible for designing, integrating, and qualifying optical and optomechanical systems for spacecraft and payload technologies. This role involves developing optical prescriptions, performance models, and conducting environmental qualification testing.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Senior Optics Engineer to own the design, integration, and qualification of optical and optomechanical systems for our spacecraft and payload technologies. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who has taken complex optical hardware from early architecture through alignment, environmental testing, and flight-ready production.
Job Responsibilities:
Own optical and optomechanical systems from requirements and architecture through detailed design, integration, qualification, and production.
Design and analyze imaging, sensing, laser, infrared, or free-space optical systems using first-principles optical engineering.
Develop optical prescriptions, performance models, error budgets, tolerance analyses, stray-light assessments, and system-level trade studies.
Design and integrate lenses, detectors, mounts, baffles, windows, thermal interfaces, alignment features, and other precision optical hardware.
Develop alignment, calibration, metrology, and automated test methods to characterize optical performance.
Plan and execute environmental qualification, including vibration, shock, thermal-vacuum, and other mission-specific testing.
Analyze test data, diagnose optical performance issues, lead anomaly investigations, and implement corrective design actions.
Partner with mechanical, electrical, software, systems, manufacturing, and supplier teams to deliver manufacturable, flight-ready hardware.
Bachelor’s degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
7+ years of experience designing, integrating, and testing optical, imaging, photonic, infrared, or laser-based hardware.

Qualification

7+ years of experience designing

Required

Bachelor’s degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
7+ years of experience designing, integrating, and testing optical, imaging, photonic, infrared, or laser systems

Benefits

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Company

Spacekinetic

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