Job Description
Optical Comms Engineers
Herndon VA
Pay From: $85000.00 Per Year
MUST
Optical Comms Engineers
US clearance clearable
3+ years direct hands-on designing, building, and characterizing optical systems.
Experience with modeling and simulation of optical systems using industry standard tools such as MATLAB, MATHCAD, ZEMAX or equivalent software tools
Preferred Experience or ability to work within an aerospace environment is a plus including environmental test capability of hardware before/after vibration and inside a thermal vacuum chamber.
Efficient at developing and executing on complex optical alignment methods.
Understanding of opto-mechanical, thermo-optic tolerance and stability.
Knowledge of laser theory and industry best practices associated with fiber laser systems including continuous wave, pulsed, and high peak power fiber lasers.
Ability or interest in building fiber lasers.
Ability to design and execute experiments validating communications system performance and correlate the results with the expected performance.
Strong communication and documentation skills for efficient multidisciplinary coordination
BS in Physics, Optical engineering or other related engineering specialties required
DUTIES
Optical Comms Engineers will be responsible for designing and building optical space terminals. Work includes optical space lasercom design, hand-on building space flight optical flight terminals, and conducting performance and environmental verification testing for space.
Design and work with some of the smartest minds in engineering actively involved in current high-profile NASA and DOD missions.
You will use your direct hands-on experience to support the build, alignment, and performance characterization of laser communication terminals, build space fiber lasers, and develop optical pointing and tracking systems.
Activities include coordinating and performing formal acceptance and qualification testing across multiple concurrent projects with a mix of short-duration flight programs and long-duration technology maturation programs.
Quadrant is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a protected veteran, or status as an individual with a disability. Healthcare benefits are offered to all eligible employees according to compliance mandated by the Affordable Care Act .
Herndon VA
Pay From: $85000.00 Per Year
MUST
Optical Comms Engineers
US clearance clearable
3+ years direct hands-on designing, building, and characterizing optical systems.
Experience with modeling and simulation of optical systems using industry standard tools such as MATLAB, MATHCAD, ZEMAX or equivalent software tools
Preferred Experience or ability to work within an aerospace environment is a plus including environmental test capability of hardware before/after vibration and inside a thermal vacuum chamber.
Efficient at developing and executing on complex optical alignment methods.
Understanding of opto-mechanical, thermo-optic tolerance and stability.
Knowledge of laser theory and industry best practices associated with fiber laser systems including continuous wave, pulsed, and high peak power fiber lasers.
Ability or interest in building fiber lasers.
Ability to design and execute experiments validating communications system performance and correlate the results with the expected performance.
Strong communication and documentation skills for efficient multidisciplinary coordination
BS in Physics, Optical engineering or other related engineering specialties required
DUTIES
Optical Comms Engineers will be responsible for designing and building optical space terminals. Work includes optical space lasercom design, hand-on building space flight optical flight terminals, and conducting performance and environmental verification testing for space.
Design and work with some of the smartest minds in engineering actively involved in current high-profile NASA and DOD missions.
You will use your direct hands-on experience to support the build, alignment, and performance characterization of laser communication terminals, build space fiber lasers, and develop optical pointing and tracking systems.
Activities include coordinating and performing formal acceptance and qualification testing across multiple concurrent projects with a mix of short-duration flight programs and long-duration technology maturation programs.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Herndon, VA |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Website | http://www.quadrantinc.com/ |
About Company
Quadrant is a full-life cycle staff augmentation agency providing a proven "rapid fire" approach in responding to the needs of our clients. Quadrant offers a comprehensive suite of staffing solutions for organizations in the Healthcare, Medical, Dental, Information Technology, HR and Government contract sectors.
Our clients have come to include some of the largest and most recognized brand named companies in the Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD metropolitan regions. Quadrant is a DOD TOP Secret cleared facility and holds a Maryland Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Virginia SWaM certification. Quadrant's clients are rapidly hiring a mix of healthcare, medical, dental, information technology, recruiting and HR professionals.
Quadrant is recognized as the largest Healthcare Staffing agency in the Washington DC area. We support every major healthcare system and thousands of area healthcare practices. Our healthcare division focuses on all clinical and nonclinical staff with the exception of physicians. Our database boasts hundreds of thousands of local screened healthcare professionals; the largest in the area. Our resources enable us to respond to our clients requests quickly, generally within 24 hours of request on mainstream orders.
Our Information Technology clients support a broad mix of commercial and federal government agencies. Our clients include government contractors who support projects with federal agencies such as U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Institutes of Health(NIH), U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, FDA, FBI, USPTO, DHS, DHHS, DOD, DOJ, DOE, DISA, and USPS. In addition to our federal portfolio, Quadrant also supports a range of commercial clients focusing in software, telecom, mobile, web and healthcare development.
Whether you are a job seeker or a company with open positions to fill we will bridge the talent gap. Contact any of our seasoned professional recruiters or account managers and we will walk you through our proven staffing methodology. We offer a consultative approach to both potential employee and employer. We seek the right match, at the right time, every time.
Skills
- Acceptance Testingunmatched
- Aerospace and Defenseunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Communication Systemsunmatched
- Communications Engineeringunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Experiment Designunmatched
- Hardware Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Health Planunmatched
- Industry Standardsunmatched
- Laser Communicationsunmatched
- MATLABunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Optical Engineeringunmatched
- Performance Testingunmatched
- Simulationunmatched
- System Validationunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- United States Department of Defense (DoD)unmatched
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