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Optical Engineer I

Sinclair Office💼 Full-time💰 $80,000–$80,000🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, analyze, and test star tracker products for spacecraft and payloads to enable space missions.

Role type

Entry-level IC optical engineer (star trackers)

Builds

Star tracker products and subsystems for spacecraft

Domain

Aerospace + Optics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Optical system design, mechanical engineering, data analysis, optomechanical design, stray light analysis, embedded microcontroller development, source control, lens assembly

Preferred skills

Zemax OpticStudio, spacecraft system design, Python/Matlab, C programming

Technologies

Zemax OpticStudio, Python, Matlab, C, GIT, SVN

Responsibilities

Design, analyze, and test new and existing star tracker products; develop and commission test setups; collect and analyze performance data; support quality and production teams; assist business development with customer inquiries

Seniority

Entry-level, hands-on IC

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