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Optical Engineer - Lasercom or Aerospace Systems

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Lexington, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/31/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/30/2026
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RESPONSIBILITIES INVOLVE:

  • Planning and design in preparation for extensive assembly, integration, and test activities in laboratory clean rooms.
  • Planning for optical system assembly, integration, and test: develop alignment approach, derive requirements, outline process flow, and develop any GSE needed.
  • Working with mechanical and opto-mechanical engineers to create mounts and assemblies with needed degrees of freedom and adjustment resolution.
  • Executing assembly and alignment of free-space and fiber-optic optical assemblies, including integration of sensors and performance characterization.
  • Specifying custom optical components such as mirrors, lenses, and filters, assessing supplier capabilities, and inspecting/testing procured optics.
  • Working with free-space optical tooling such as interferometer, polarimeter, laser beam profiler, alignment telescope, and/or autocollimator.
  • Working with fiber optic cables and components, including test methods.
  • Writing AI&T procedures, documenting build activities, and participating in troubleshooting and issue resolution.
  • Running environmental test campaigns to characterize assemblies performance over operating and survival conditions (e.g, thermal cycling, altitude chamber, vibration, TVac).

REQUIRED SKILLS:

  • Three-to-five years of optical AI&T experience
  • Experience assembling, aligning, and testing refractive and reective optical components and systems.
  • Working familiarity with optical alignment instruments such as interferometers, autocollimators, alignment telescopes, theodolites, prolometers and/or wavefront sensors.
  • Broad understanding of optical fabrication techniques and shall be capable of evaluating vendors for custom manufacturing requirements.
  • Experience performing incoming inspection on a variety of procured items and therefore needs a working knowledge of optical fabrication specications.
  • Ability to work effectively with small multi-disciplinary teams of engineers and specialists with varying experience levels.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

  • Familiarity with optical design code (Zemax, CodeV etc) to establish component and alignment tolerances and/or troubleshoot any assembly s performance issues.
  • Preference will be given to candidates who have the above experience with space systems and/or lasercom systems.

ONSITE:

  • Candidate will be 100% onsite to work in the Labs.

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