Opto-Mechanical Engineer Senior Staff

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By bringing together people that use their passion for purposeful innovation, at Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges.

Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. At Lockheed Martin, we place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering innovation, integrity, and exemplifying the epitome of corporate responsibility. Your Mission is Ours.

Researches, plans, designs, develops, and tests optical elements including lenses, filters, beamsplitters, reflective, and diffractive elements in mechanical structures, assemblies, mechanisms, and fixtures that allow optical systems to meet performance and operational requirements.Designs precision components and mechanisms to enclose, retain, and maintain alignment of optical elements within system tolerance specifications. Selects materials based on optical alignment tolerances, manufacturing tolerances, induced environments, and ergonomic requirements. Leads or produces design documentation packages for suppliers which consists of optical and mechanical drawings with specification, tolerance, and special process steps. Generate requirements, specifications, performance budgets, build and test procedures, verification plans, and operating manuals.

In this senior technical leadership role you will direct group of engineers to:

• Lead a team of Opto-mechanical engineers who will design and analyze optical payload hardware as part of the Integrated product Team (IPT)
• Work closely with Payload IPT leads and Line of Business (LOB) leadership to understand mission drivers
• Provide technical mentorship of team members

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, such as Mechanical, Optical Sciences or related field.
• Proficiency in a range of standard design tools applied to opto-mechanical design such as CAD, CREO SolidWorks, or other relevant assets.
• 10+ years’ experience as a mechanical engineer or equivalent with background in optical, optics, or another relevant areas.
• Experience with design for assembly and manufacturing techniques.
• Experience with specification development, vendor interface, part selection and or configuration control.
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance.

Desired Skills

• Experience in the Aerospace and/or defense industry
• Prior industry experience with Electro-Optical systems
• Drafting, checking and or GD&T experience
• Programming experience like Python
• Integrated Product Team (IPT), Cost Account Manager (CAM) and EVMS experience
• Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice