Furientis

LWIR Optical Hardware / Opto-Mechanical Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$40k-$60kDetected 69 days ago

Supply ChainLogisticsSolidWorksCreoGD&TEMI/EMCMIL-STDRoboticsMechanical DesignHardware DesignAR/VRTolerance Analysis

About the role

This is a hands-on role for an engineer who has already taken optical hardware from concept through environmental qualification (ideally tactical, airborne, or missile-class) and is ready to do it again, faster and at higher volume.

Drive the opto-mechanical design of the LWIR seeker head: lens stack, mounts, baffles, cold stops, window and dome, FPA interface, detector thermal solution, packaging, and alignment.
Partner with optical designers on lens prescriptions
review designs in Zemax or Code V and reason about Seidel/Zernike aberrations from first principles.
Own design-constraint definition and error-budget optimization across the optical column
Develop athermalized mounts, bonded and elastomeric interfaces, and window/dome assemblies that survive the high-g, wide-temperature, vibration, and shock environment of a tactical seeker.
Build full optical tolerance budgets (Monte Carlo and worst-case) across manufacturing, alignment, thermal, packaging, and aging effects.
bring DFM and design-to-cost recommendations across material choices (Ge, Si, ZnSe, chalcogenide). The Head of Supply Chain owns commercial terms.
Develop alignment, bonding, and assembly procedures suitable for high-rate production, not one-off lab builds.
Build and execute the optical metrology and test approach: interferometry, MTF, encircled energy, boresight, transmission, and stray light.

This is a wear-many-hats environment where you must be comfortable "building the airplane in flight" and stepping well outside your comfort zone
A clearance is not required for this position.
Must be a U.S. Person.

B.S. in Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or related
Understanding of geometric and wave optics from first principles, including working fluency with Seidel and Zernike aberration formalisms
able to diagnose an aberrated system at the bench.
Working fluency with Zemax or Code V
reads and reviews prescriptions and tolerance flowdowns competently.

B.S. in Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or related; M.S. preferred.
Working fluency with Zemax or Code V; reads and reviews prescriptions and tolerance flowdowns competently.
Strong CAD (SolidWorks, NX, or Creo) and GD&T to ASME Y14.5.

America is critically deficient in production of defensive munitions- we currently produce shipborne interceptors in the few hundreds per year while our adversaries are producing offensive threats in the tens of thousands per year.
Furientis was started to help solve this problem- introducing a new class of cost-effective, high production rate, interceptor missiles.
We're seeking motivated individuals who internalize this problem and are eager to apply their past experience in similar industries (aerospace, defense, automotive/racing, robotics) and out of the box thinking to solve this problem for the US and its allies.

a low-cost, mass-producible, multimodal missile seeker that leans on commercial supply chains where they outperform the defense legacy, with supply-chain security engineered in from day one.
On a modern missile, the seeker is 40 to 60% of unit cost and often drives overly long delivery cycles; accordingly, the seeker team is at the tip of the spear for delivering value to our customers and to the taxpayer.
We are a small, deeply technical team that drives capability through ingenuity and bias for action and ships hardware that flies.

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