Senior Optical Engineer

Be visionary

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.​

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

Company Overview:

Teledyne e2v in Chelmsford is the largest commercial employer in the City of Chelmsford, employing over 850 people in Essex. The site generates world-leading technology critical for humankind, including vital components for radiotherapy machines and the imaging devices used in ground breaking space missions.

Teledyne e2v is undergoing a profound and positive transformation. We are a growing business, making significant investments in our capabilities and facilities. Teledyne employs c 11000 people worldwide and our Chelmsford facility is one of largest within the group, hosting multiple business units and functions.

Teledyne e2v is a global leader in specialised components and subsystems for innovative solutions in medical, science, aerospace, defence and industrial applications. Our products are everywhere, hospitals, planes, ships and even outer space, but you will only see them if you know where to look.

Working with us will enable you to develop and gain experience in the ideas that are behind some of the most advanced technologies in the world. You will also get a chance to work alongside highly experienced engineers, technicians and scientists.

Our products do many things including saving people’s lives by finding and treating cancer, helping map our planet and the universe and freezing the atom down to 0° Kelvin.

With a long and enviable history of technical and scientific innovation, Teledyne e2v is always working at the forefront of technology.

Job Summary:

The Engineering Team seeks a dynamic, organised and proactive Optical Engineer with high standards and technical capabilities to oversee the optical design and analysis with a subcontractor for an exciting and challenging new payload for ESA. The Optical Engineer will be responsible for working with the project team and subcontractor to ensure the payload optical design, assembly, integration, and verification meets the project requirements.

• Review and feedback on optical design and analysis and documentation, balancing technical requirements with programmatic and budget constraints.
• Proactively provide support to project teams on the optical design, analysis and build throughout the project lifecycle.
• Work with subcontractors, customers, and suppliers to deliver an optical design solution and analysis that meets the project requirements from concept through to manufacture, system integration and verification. 
• Advise on risk, programmatic and budgetary issues with respect to proposed designs.
• Training and mentorship of other team members on optical design, analysis, and technology.
• Support and contribute to the preparation of bid and proposal material.

Previous Experience:

• Comprehensive knowledge of Optical Design preferably for space applications with a working knowledge of other engineering disciplines e.g. electronics, opto-mechanics, image processing and electro-optical device physics
• Ability to prioritise and support multiple optical design issues in parallel.
• The candidate should have basic opto-mechanical knowledge.
• Ability to review designs and plans from subcontractors.
• Experience of engineering lifecycle management and requirements management.
• Knowledge in materials and component selection, in the space domain.
• Desirable if the candidate has experience with AIV of optical payloads.
• Desirable if the candidate has experience with OGSE.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Skills:

• BSc in Optics, Physics or engineering ideally with proven related practical optical design experience.
• Optical design experience with high proficiency in Optic Studio (Zemax) is essential.
• Design and analysis software knowledge, e.g.SolidWorks, Ansys, SigFit, Python is desirable.
• Self-motivated, creative, high attention to detail.
• Excellent at planning and organising.
• Ability to work autonomously or within project teams managing their own work and working with subcontractors or suppliers.
• Recognised ability to deliver.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities.
• Good team working skills and communication skills.
• Knowledge of spacecraft systems / design would be an advantage including materials.
• Good knowledge of MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project.
• Knowledge of Quality Management requirements.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

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