• Interesting Work: Our co-workers support some of the most important and critical programs to our national defense and security.
• Values: Our first core value is that employees come first. We challenge our co-workers to provide the highest level of support and service, and reward them with some of the best benefits in the industry.
• 100% Employee Ownership: we have a stake in each other's success, and the success of our customers. It's also nice to know what's going on across the company; we have company wide town-hall meetings three times a year.
• Great Benefits - Most Full-Time Staff Are Eligible for:
• Starting PTO accrual of 20 days PTO/year + 10 holidays/year
• Flexible schedules
• 6% 401k match with immediate vesting
• Semi-annual bonus eligibility (July and December)
• Company funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - a separate qualified retirement account
• Up to $10,000 in annual tuition reimbursement
• Other company funded benefits, like life and disability insurance
• Optional zero deductible Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance plan
• Track Record of Success: We have grown every year since our founding in 1993

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing warfighter requirements and providing recommendations based on scientific and engineering, hardware and software technical baselines.
• Providing recommendations on systems integration and engineering baseline changes and assessing the technical maturity and risk of development projects.
• Assisting the Government team on potential solutions across a wide variety of multi-domain, tactical and mission area applications.
• Assisting the Government team on with monitoring and assessment of optical payload manufacturing capabilities.
• Assessing and integrating engineering activities across multiple projects and multiple program areas.
• Recommending and coordinating development with related activities of other DoD and non-DoD agencies.
• Assisting with analysis of the design, assembly, integration and testing, data reduction of proposed technical solutions and formulating and evaluation criteria for those solutions.
• Distilling and communicating technically complex information and analysis and recommending solutions to program management team on proposed projects for feasibility and applicability to relevant military mission areas and related activities.
• Assisting in the preparation of briefings, technology roadmaps, initiatives, and related planning and programming products.
• Supporting on-orbit optical communications payloads from cradle to grave.
• Supporting development of optical communications standards.
• Assessing optical payload manufacturing capabilities.
• Providing lessons learned from past experience.
• Preparing, reviewing and editing reports and briefings.
• Participating in identifying risks and formulating mitigation plans for contractor project activities.
• Attending project meetings and reviews to include technical interchange meetings, design reviews, and program management reviews. Assisting the government in analyzing contractor concept designs at the system and subsystem levels.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in Optical Sciences or a closely related field.
• Directly applicable experience in engineering research and development of laboratory projects including knowledge of current state of the art in relevant space vehicle systems.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • requirements analysis and definition.
  • mission level and engineering/physics-based design.
  • analysis and testing of advanced electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) sensor capabilities.
  • communication systems/architecture analysis.
  • link budget analysis.
  • EO/IR sensor research and development.

• Master’s degree with a minimum of 10 years of experience, or a PhD with a minimum of 7 years of experience in Optical Sciences or a closely related field from an accredited university.

• None

• Active TOP SECRET clearance with SAP and SCI eligibility.
• U.S. Citizenship is required for this position.