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Opto-Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer

Impulse Space
Redondo Beach, USA
Full-time
Senior Level
Onsite
USD 100000-200000 yearly
Discovered 1 months ago

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Responsibilities

  • Develop, document, and optimize manufacturing processes for opto-mechanical assemblies, such as star trackers, cameras and sun sensors
  • Develop and optimize metrology processes for opto-mechanical assemblies in production
  • Design tooling for complex alignment of lens assemblies and drive assembly, integration and test of camera sub-assemblies
  • Collaborate with optical design engineers to ensure manufacturability, DFM/DFA of optical assemblies, including custom spherical and aspherical lenses/mirrors
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams on quality and long-term reliability
  • Provide day-to-day support for the production floor, resolving build issues, updating work instructions, and improving yields
  • Provide guidance to opto-mechanical technicians
  • Own environmental and functional testing (optical, vibe, thermal, etc.) in production

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelors' degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or related field
  • 6+ years of demonstrated manufacturing experience in high-precision opto-mechanical manufacturing
  • 6+ years of optical metrology equipment experience, such as centration measurements, interferometry and wavefront sensors
  • Knowledge of optical alignment using a laser or collimated light source
  • Experience with designing tooling for optical assembly
  • Skilled at mechanical design and GD&T using NX and Teamcenter
  • Knowledge of CNC Machining

Preferred Skills And Experience

  • MS/PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or related field
  • 6+ years of demonstrated manufacturing experience in opto-mechanical manufacturing for space applications
  • Knowledge of thermal cycling, vibration and TVAC for space applications
  • Experience with adhesives for space applications
  • Knowledge of ultra-precision machining: CCP, SPDT, MRF, IBF, Fluid-Jet
  • Knowledge of theodolites, autocollimators, laser trackers and basic planar optical alignment
  • Knowledge of setting testing light sources, including solar simulators, laser diodes and black body sources
  • Comfortable and able to build out quick opto-mechanical set-ups
  • Knowledge of finite and infinite conjugate lens set-ups
  • Knowledge of both refractive and reflective methods of collimation
  • Knowledge of optical/optomechanical tolerance stack-ups

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