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    Optical Engineer - Atlanta, United States - Georgia Institute of Technology

    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, United States

    1 month ago

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    An Optical Engineer leverages knowledge and skills from the fields of optical sciences and optics manufacturing to research, design, model, analyze, assemble, integrate, and test complex EO-IR systems for applications in imaging, remote sensing, and telecommunications. The optical engineer gathers system requirements and translates them into optical specifications, tolerances, and error budgets based on performance/capability objectives and system lifecycle. Derived requirements reflect environmental and platform challenges and constraints such as temperature, vibration, shock, humidity, etc. Performs sensitivity analysis, link budget/radiometry, pointing stability, and stray light analysis through leveraging modeling and simulation tools that also enable analysis of alternatives and trades studies activities. Determines sources for commercial and custom optical components including: lenses, mirrors, holographic optical elements, mounts, lasers, fiber-optics, adaptive optical elements, optical scanners, and metrology equipment. Designs end-to-end optical layouts, optical alignment procedures, and characterization procedures in support of implementation into final systems.

    Key Responsibilities

  • Layout simple optical designs in optical modeling software per guidance from more senior engineers
  • Perform basic experiments, calculations, and/or simulations to assess the performance of optical systems for various sensing applications
  • Conduct basic data analysis on the results of optical measurements and/or simulations
  • Perform literature surveys on research topics
  • Generate documentation of experiments and results

    • Additional Responsibilities

  • Provide mentorship to student researchers.

    • Required Minimum Qualifications

  • Candidates currently enrolled in an accredited degree program relevant to this position will be considered. The candidate must have a graduation date of no later than May 2024.
  • Experience with at least one optical design and M&S tools (e.g. Zemax, Code V, FRED, OSLO, TracePro, DIRSIG, etc.)
  • Hands on experience assembling hardware and/or performing benchtop optical system and/or component testing
  • Experience with generating documentation for detailing experiments and results.
  • Familiarity with imaging systems and radiometry

    • Preferred Qualifications

  • Active Secret Clearance
  • Experience working with active and passive electro-optical systems including, but not limited to LIDARs, infrared imagers, hyperspectral imagers, polarimeters
  • Software development experience in Python/MATLAB/C/C++
  • Experience with image and signal processing
  • Experience with SolidWorks
  • Experience with optomechanical tolerancing and structural, thermal, and optical performance (STOP) analysis
  • Project management and task leadership experience

    • Travel Requirements

    <10% travel

    Education and Length of Experience

    This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

  • 0 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree in Optical Engineering, Optical Science, Imaging Science, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics or other related discipline.

    • U.S. Citizenship Requirements

    Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

    Clearance Type Required

    Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.

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