Optical Engineer

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Department Summary:

MITRE Lab's Quantum Information Sciences, Optics, and Imaging Department serves as a vanguard for MITRE to meet the future needs of our customers, requiring technical excellence while encouraging creativity and fostering interests in current and emerging technologies across its diverse employees. Your future colleagues are a collegial team from diverse technical backgrounds who work across MITRE's sponsors and partners.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The MITRE Corporation is seeking a smart, energetic engineer or scientist with experience in optical physics and lasers to work in a dynamic environment, which encourages creativity and requires keeping pace with current and emerging technologies and practices. The work will include the design, evaluation, and integration of gimbaled optical systems for applications in remote sensing, optical communication, and directed energy. There may be additional opportunities to develop photonics systems or develop modeling and simulation tools.

The candidate will work in the public interest to provide technical expertise in solving our sponsors' critical optics problems.

• The candidate will contribute to analysis of various optical systems, including integration challenges and use these analyses to provide recommendations to our sponsors.
• The candidate will use analytic techniques to assess the impact of lasers and optics on operational capabilities and missions.
• The candidate will develop and evaluate directed energy systems for a wide range of missions and applications.
• As needed and desired, the candidate will contribute to other optics tasks (imaging, communications, etc)
• The candidate will develop optical models for simulation, and/or hardware for lab research.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Training and understanding of optical physics, modeling & simulation, and/or laser systems & metrology.
• Experience with the design, control, and integration of optomechanical systems
• Familiarity with laboratory work on optical systems, such as research, development, and testing.
• Strong technical writing and oral presentation skills.
• The ability to conduct research and analysis in a collaborative environment.
• The ability to think critically and be proactive in pursuing research and problem-solving with minimal supervision.
• Must be U.S. citizen with an active Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters or PhD in Optical Science, Physics, or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in the design and evaluation of directed energy systems.
• Experience with ZEMAX.
• Experience with AI-enabled computer vision systems and robotic systems.
• Experience in the design and evaluation of cross-cutting imaging technologies for defense, intelligence, transportation, or health.
• Top Secret security clearance.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Top Secret/SCI

Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$103,600 - $129,500 - $155,400 Annual

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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