Seeker Responsible Engineer

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for the seeker sensor system, owning technical direction, integration, and performance accountability from concept through on-orbit operation
• Drive the generation and decomposition of system-level requirements into subsystem and component specifications, ensuring full traceability from mission need to verified performance
• Manage multidisciplinary development efforts spanning optical, detector, electronics, firmware, and software teams to ensure a technically coherent seeker design
• Apply radiometric budgeting to allocate signal, noise, and margin across the sensor design, validating that performance predictions meet mission requirements
• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of calibration methodologies and on-orbit CONOPS to ensure the seeker performs reliably throughout its mission lifecycle
• Define and support seeker integration, characterization, and qualification test campaigns, ensuring traceability of test results to requirements
• Generate and maintain technical documentation including system specifications, interface requirements, analysis reports, and test plans
• Present design status, analysis results, and program updates clearly and confidently to customers and internal stakeholders at design reviews and program milestones
• Collaborate with the EO Systems Engineering Manager and broader Payloads team to ensure the seeker integrates seamlessly with the spacecraft platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field (Master's preferred)
• 7+ years of professional experience in electro-optical system design and development, with demonstrated experience across the full EO spectrum from VNIR through LWIR
• Experience as a system or subsystem Responsible Engineer, with ownership of requirements, integration, and performance verification for a complex EO system
• Demonstrated expertise in radiometric analysis, signal chain performance modeling, and noise budgeting for EO sensor systems
• Familiarity with EO sensor calibration methodologies and on-orbit CONOPS development
• Familiarity with synthetic image generation tools and image processing techniques for model-based testing and algorithm development
• Experience generating technical documentation and presenting program status and analysis results to customers and stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills