Electro-Optical (EO) Systems Engineer

Salary: $80,000 - $140,000
York Space Systems was founded to radically improve spacecraft affordability and reliability, transforming, and enabling next- generation space mission operations worldwide. Today, York is one of the most innovative aerospace companies, specializing in end-to-end customer solutions and the rapid production of spacecraft platforms. York’s complete Space Segment Solution includes spacecraft production, payload integration, system integration & test, launch services, ground segment services, and mission operations, enabling customers to leverage York’s existing technology solutions to get to orbit rapidly and responsively.

York Space Systems is looking for an Electro-Optical (EO) Systems Engineer with 2-6 years of experience.

York EO Systems Engineers work closely with our technology partners and internal subsystems for ensuring customer electro-optical missions are actualized. The ideal candidate looks forward to being a focal point for successful cross-disciplinary integration of electro-optical payloads. 

As an EO Systems Engineer at York, you will experience the full EO system life cycle from proposal to on-orbit commissioning, with a mixture of hands-on hardware activities and at the desk systems engineering work.

This is a systems integrator role that is highly vendor and customer facing, not a design role.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Facilitate partner optical system verification and integration for York spacecraft.
• Support the full systems engineering development lifecycle for electro-optical products.
• Determine optical payload specifications in accordance with spacecraft designs, customer requirements, and industry standards.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, and delivery of electro-optical payloads by our suppliers.
• Support requirement decomposition and allocation regarding electro-optical components
• Work across the supply chain and York engineering team to define interfaces and ensure compatibility between optical payloads and the Space Vehicles.
• Support on-orbit optical payload testing and operations through the development of operational procedures.
• Develop and maintain standard systems engineering products in support of major engineering program reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, PSR, etc.)
• Participate in vendor/customer calls as the technical POC for the organization for a program of record
• Work closely with subject matter experts to ensure successful integration and operation of electro-optical payloads.
• Will require some travel to support testing and launch.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Optical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• Prior experience with development and test of precision electro-optical systems.
• Prior experience with environmental test campaigns of electro-optical components (such as vibration testing and thermal chamber testing)
• Prior experience throughout the systems engineering process
• Basic ability to use Jira to manage and track tasking
• Ability to perform under deadline: accountable and self-driven.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Organized and a decent multitasker across multiple projects.
• Detail-orientated and data- driven.
• Must have, or a willingness to obtain, a DoD Security Clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Applicants meeting one or more of the below criteria are preferred.
• Experience with the environments experienced by a spacecraft and their implications to precision optical systems.
• Experience in the design, development, and/or testing of electro-optical payloads (e.g. lasers, optical comm, lidar) for space.
• Knowledge of basic communications theory principles
• Knowledge of basic optical test equipment (power meters, spectrum analyzers, etc.)
• Background in electronics or networking
• Active DoD Security Clearance