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Staff Optical Engineer

Muon Mountain View🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $166,000–$166,000🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Technical lead for developing infrared remote sensing instruments, owning performance metrics and driving hands-on assembly, integration, and test of critical optical and optomechanical subsystems.

Role type

Staff Optical Engineer (Technical Lead)

Builds

Infrared remote sensing instruments and critical optical/optomechanical subsystems

Domain

Aerospace / Infrared Remote Sensing / Optics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Optical design and analysis, Error budgeting, Precision optical metrology, AI&T execution, Root cause analysis, Data analysis and automation, Technical leadership, Project management

Preferred skills

Systems engineering, Cleanroom environment experience, Spacecraft-level environmental testing support

Technologies

Zemax, Code V, FRED, Python, C++

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