Optical Systems Engineer (Early-Career) jobs in United States
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Millennium Space Systems · 3 hours ago

Optical Systems Engineer (Early-Career)

Millennium Space Systems, A Boeing Company, delivers affordable, high-performance space systems for exacting customers. They are seeking an Early Career Optical Systems Engineer to manage interfaces between space vehicles and electro-optical payloads, design optical hardware, and support mission performance requirements. The role includes performing optical lab testing and collaborating with various engineering teams to ensure successful payload systems efforts.

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Responsibilities

Develop and execute unit and system level optical tests to verify performance
Design and implement system/payload performance modeling and simulation
Support trade studies and other forms of analysis to predict system performance
Support supplier and partner performance
Support internal optical product development
Support development and validation of mission and unit level requirements for electro-optical (EO) sensors, associated image processing, and space vehicle interfaces

Qualification

Optical engineeringModelingSimulationEO/IR sensor technologyOptical lab testingSatellite designOptical hardware developmentTroubleshooting capabilitiesCommunication skillsPresentation skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in engineering or the physical sciences
Methodical design, testing, and troubleshooting capabilities
Must be versatile and able to perform and manage multiple tasks concurrently
Good communication and presentation skills
This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Top Secret Clearance Post-Start is required

Preferred

Advanced degree in optical engineering, physics, or other relevant engineering discipline
2+ experience working with space-related optical instrumentation
2+ years experience in satellite design and/or operation
Experience with mission requirements flow down to low level EO requirements
Experience with performance/phenomenology of EO sensors
Experience with modeling and simulation of EO sensors
Experience in modeling and simulation of satellite systems
Experience with optical end-to-end testing
Familiarity with the design, development, and qualification of optical hardware
Experience with optical hardware such as EO/IR payloads, optical communications terminals, star trackers, laser range finders, etc
Experience with onboard and ground processing of optical data to extract mission-related information
Experience managing subcontractors providing optical hardware
Experience developing rapid design and models to support proposal efforts
Active TS/SCI clearance

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
401k plan

Company

Millennium Space Systems

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Millennium Space Systems, a provider of agile, flight-proven small-satellite solutions.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
unknown
2018-08-16Acquired

Leadership Team

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Robert Jacobsen
Chief Financial Officer
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Shasta Noble
Chief Financial Officer
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