Senior Optical Engineer

About The Role

With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. Our research and engineering protects mission-critical systems and a broad range of initiatives in computer network defense, electronic warfare, secure-by-design techniques, and cyber operations and experimentation platforms. Your expertise and areas of interest may be applied on one or more programs, providing you new opportunities to learn and grow.

This position is part-time, expected at less than 20 hours/week. The candidate will possess the ability to work independently in a small multi-disciplinary team utilizing their experience to design and test optical systems. Creating optical systems for prototyping and field deployable systems as well as testing external manufactured products is necessary. Creation of test reports will be required to define the parameters of optical systems and their performance boundaries.

Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Provide expertise in analyzing optical systems with both known and unknown properties
• Learn to operate all laboratory test equipment to ensure accurate results
• Ability to research optical concepts and hardware to determine use cases or purpose of design

Qualifications

Required:

• Minimum of 12 years of experience with BS/BA; Minimum of 10 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 7 years with PhD
• Background in optical system testing and development including prototyping designs
• Ability to use Zemax/Ansys OpticStudio, or other optical analysis (e.g. ray tracing simulation) software to design prototype systems and generate performance parameters of external manufactured products
• Familiarity with lab hardware such as laser drivers/modulation sources, lock-in amplifiers, motion stages, spectrometers, and optical detectors and sensors
• Familiar with C#, Python, or MATLAB for automating data collection and analysis
• Proficient in writing technical documentation in MS word and PowerPoint
• Secret Clearance w/ ability to apply/hold Top Secret clearance
• U.S. Citizenship required

Desired:

• Background in photonics plus mechanical, computer, or electrical engineering
• Experience with in-depth analysis of optical systems for reverse engineering
• Knowledge of electro-optically guided missile system operation and/or countermeasure techniques
• Top Secret Clearance

Details

Target Salary Range: $146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at

Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.