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ARKA Group, LP · 3 weeks ago

Chief EO/IR Engineer {D}

Danbury, CT

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$210K/yr - $260K/yr

10+ years exp

ARKA Group L.P. is an advanced technologies company serving the U.S. military, intelligence community, and commercial space industry. As the Chief EO/IR Engineer, you will provide technical direction and leadership to integrated product teams involved in the development of EO/IR systems, overseeing all phases from design to delivery.

AerospaceCommunication HardwareHardwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingOptical CommunicationSoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Evaluation and shaping of customer requirements, assisting business development in defining the opportunity spaces in which future contracts lie

Development of the top-level system architecture of mission solutions, including optical and electronic design requirements, on-board processing requirements, platform interfaces, and CONOPS

Defining, executing, and overseeing system design trades

Interfacing with customers throughout the product life cycle as the lead technical representative of the product development team

Leading program teams, including other engineering disciplines and interfacing with program management, to develop optical system design concepts and decompose and flow down system requirements to lower-level assemblies and components

Preparing and presenting of material for formal design reviews and customer meetings

Defining and leading internal IR&D projects

Qualification

EO/IR system developmentOptical system designTechnical leadershipProgram planningCONOPS developmentTechnical writingCustomer interfacingRequirements traceabilityError budgetsNIIRSMTFSNRGeolocationSpectral band selectionCross-functional teamwork

Required

Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant work experience OR 10 years of relevant work experience with Master's degree

Decomposition of complex systems into logical building blocks and the ability to develop the requisite error budgets and requirements traceability

Evaluation and definition of the optical, mechanical, electrical, and environmental inputs into an EO/IR system and their influence on overall requirements compliance

Program planning including scope definition, resourcing, and budgeting

Proficient technical writing skills including proposal content, requirements specifications, verification matrices, verification plans, and verification reports

CONOPS development

Technical leadership of cross-functional/discipline teams

Preferred

Experience in architecting and/or developing imaging system solutions for spaceborne missions

Knowledge of EO industry technical capabilities (e.g., focal planes, electronics) for space systems, supporting architecting of EO payloads

Familiarity with mission level performance requirements including: NIIRS (image quality), Modulation Transfer Function (MTF), Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Minimum Detectable Target and/or geolocation

Familiarity with mission level phenomenology including Solar illuminated signal and thermal emission of objects and background/clutter and appropriate selection of spectral bands