Optical Engineer

Unleash Your Potential!

The Leidos Innovation Center (LInC) is searching for an Optical Engineer to join our Electro-Optics (EO) Research Team in Dayton, OH. The successful candidate will utilize a strong engineering or physics background designing, testing, modeling, simulating, and analyzing the next generation of EO systems and concepts.

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

This position will support multiple simultaneous research efforts within LInC requiring skills including hands-on experimentation, calibrated testbed design, modeling and simulation of optical systems, and data manipulation and analysis. Addressing our customers' challenging mission requirements necessitates research and development of new capabilities as well as making improvements to existing systems.

Your greatest work is ahead!

The successful candidate will be called upon to develop new and innovative solutions to challenging problems. The engineer will work as part of an integrated team but should also be proficient at conducting independent research.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, procure parts for, build, align and calibrate custom testbeds and test equipment

• Design and execution of electro-optical system testing

• Perform analysis of large data sets and develop tools for visualization and manipulation of the data

• Work well in a small team environment

• Be familiar with Linux, Windows, MS Office tools like PowerPoint and Excel, MATLAB, Zemax OpticStudio (or equivalent)

• Present project results to internal team for reviews, customers, and at workshops / conferences

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering discipline (optical, engineering physics, or similar) or physics with 2+ years of relevant experience or Master's degree in technical domain above

• 2+ years experience in the electro-optical and/or infrared domain

• US citizenship is required

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

• Experience with lasers, broadband light sources, optics, electro-optics, detectors, cameras, calibration equipment, and diagnostic equipment

• MATLAB and/or Python programming experience

• Optical design software experience (e.g. Zemax, Code-V, etc.)

• Strong communication and organization skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree (or higher) in optical engineering or physics

• Strong statistics education or experience

• Experience calibrating optical sensors for radiometric or photometric measurements

• Stray light analysis experience

• 3+ years experience in the electro-optical and/or infrared domain

LInC

Original Posting Date:

2024-09-12

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $65,000.00 - $117,500.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.