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Electro-Optical Sensor Performance Engineer

El Segundo, CA💼 Full-time💰 $110,000–$110,000🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead optical system design, analysis, and testing for passive electro-optical airborne and space-based remote sensing systems serving national security and defense customers.

Role type

Senior IC electro-optical sensor performance engineer

Builds

Passive remote sensing systems (visible, infrared, multi/hyper-spectral) for DoD and intelligence community

Domain

Defense / Space / Remote Sensing / Optics

Deliverable

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

Required skills

optical system design and analysis, ray tracing (CodeV, Zemax), sensor performance evaluation (radiometry, metrics), stray light analysis, MATLAB/Python/ENVI/IDL programming, concurrent engineering collaboration

Preferred skills

optical system architecture trades, link budget analysis, FRED stray light analysis, flight hardware integration, field test support

Technologies

CodeV, Zemax, MATLAB, Python, ENVI, IDL, Mathematica, FRED

Responsibilities

Design and model passive electro-optical systems; evaluate infrared sensor performance theoretically and experimentally; perform stray light analysis; design, assemble, align, and test complex sensors; collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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