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Lidar and Atmospheric Characterization Engineer
| Company | The Aerospace Coporation |
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| Location | El Segundo, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $95200 – $165500 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | PhD |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- PhD degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences, Optical Science or Physics is required
- A minimum of (2) years of industry work experience in one of these domains: remote sensing, optics, photonics, laser, or closely related fields is required
- Lead build process development of laser diodes, laser modules, and multi-laser systems
- Experience with lasers, laser safety, optical design, and detection (APD, SPAD, PMT)
- Proficiency in a programming language (such as Python, C++, MATLAB) for system control, system testing, and data analysis
- Demonstrate technical writing skills for effective communication of results
- Willingness to occasionally travel and to work off-business hours to support customer needs, approximately 10% during summer months (as required)
- This position requires ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
- A minimum of (5) years of industry work experience or R&D experience in one of these domains: atmospheric characterization, lidar, laser, or closely related fields is required
- Experience with Atmospheric optics/physics
- Experience with lasers, laser safety, and optical design
Responsibilities
- Designing, Developing, Testing, and deploying new imaging and sensor products, including optical, electro-optical, laser, and lidar systems
- Engaging in research, development, and analysis activities and providing technical guidance
- Working on hardest nation’s space challenges towards novel solutions
- Performing analytical studies, conducting tests, developing details of specifications, preparing details of analytical report findings
- Assisting in planning and development of studies and design projects
- Frequent inter-organizational and outside customer contacts on matters of importance
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of sources of error in remote sensing, laser comm and lidar datasets
- Developing Image Processing pipelines
- Modelling of optical systems using geometric and physical optics in Optics Studio (Zemax)
- Satellite communications or optical communications
- Experience with SolidWorks and/or a test programming language such as Labview
- Experience with orbital mechanics and trajectory planning tools (Poliastro, Skyfield, WGS84, SGP4)
