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We're looking for a Senior Optical Design Engineer to take true end-to-end ownership of critical optical subsystems--from first sketch and simulation, through prototyping and test, all the way to ...
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About the Company A well-funded, early-stage hardware company building the manufacturing layer for a new class of photonic sensing devices; think of it as a foundry model for photonics. Their first ...
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About the Company A well-funded, early-stage hardware company building the manufacturing layer for a new class of photonic sensing devices; think of it as a foundry model for photonics. Their first ...
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Manufacturing Engineer - Radar Systems
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$77K - $100K/yr
Manufacturing Engineer - Radar Systems Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-Site Clearance: U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for a DoD security ...
Manufacturing Engineer - Radar Systems
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$77K - $100K/yr
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Lead Hardware Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · On-site
$180 - $240/hr
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Lead Hardware Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · On-site
$180 - $240/hr
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$110 - $160/hr
Manufacturing Engineer - Radar Systems Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-Site Clearance: U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for a DoD security ...
$110 - $160/hr
Manufacturing Engineer - Radar Systems Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-Site Clearance: U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for a DoD security ...
Manufacturing Engineer - Effectors
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$77K - $100K/yr
Manufacturing Engineer - Effectors Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-Site Clearance: U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for a DoD security ...
Manufacturing Engineer - Effectors
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$77K - $100K/yr
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Modeling & Simulation Engineer - Operations Analysis Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-Site Clearance: Top Secret eligibility required About the ...
Modeling & Simulation Engineer - Operations Analysis Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-Site Clearance: Top Secret eligibility required About the ...
Senior Optical Design Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · On-site
$150 - $190/hr
We're looking for a Senior Optical Design Engineer to take true end-to-end ownership of critical optical subsystems--from first sketch and simulation, through prototyping and test, all the way to ...
Senior Optical Design Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · On-site
$150 - $190/hr
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Industrial Engineer - Effectors
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$75K - $98K/yr
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Industrial Engineer - Effectors
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$75K - $98K/yr
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Photonics Scientist
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$37.50 - $47.25/hr
About the Company A well-funded, early-stage hardware company building the manufacturing layer for a new class of photonic sensing devices; think of it as a foundry model for photonics. Their first ...
Photonics Scientist
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$37.50 - $47.25/hr
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VP, Robot Learning
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$250 - $450/hr
VP, Robot Learning Location: San Francisco Bay Area Employment Type: Full-Time Level: Executive / Technical Leadership Work Arrangement: On-Site / Highly Collaborative About the Opportunity An early ...
VP, Robot Learning
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$250 - $450/hr
VP, Robot Learning Location: San Francisco Bay Area Employment Type: Full-Time Level: Executive / Technical Leadership Work Arrangement: On-Site / Highly Collaborative About the Opportunity An early ...
Radar Systems Engineer - Integration & Test Location: Hawthorne, CA Work Arrangement: Onsite, 5 days per week Relocation: Relocation assistance available Employment Type: Full-Time The Opportunity A ...
Radar Systems Engineer - Integration & Test Location: Hawthorne, CA Work Arrangement: Onsite, 5 days per week Relocation: Relocation assistance available Employment Type: Full-Time The Opportunity A ...
$180 - $260/hr
Lead Turbomachinery Engineer Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Department: Engineering Level: Senior Technical Leadership About the Opportunity An early-stage energy ...
$180 - $260/hr
Lead Turbomachinery Engineer Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Department: Engineering Level: Senior Technical Leadership About the Opportunity An early-stage energy ...
Manufacturing Engineer - Effectors
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$77K - $100K/yr
Manufacturing Engineer - Effectors Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-Site Clearance: U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for a DoD security ...
Manufacturing Engineer - Effectors
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$77K - $100K/yr
Manufacturing Engineer - Effectors Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-Site Clearance: U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for a DoD security ...
Integration & Test Engineer - Effector Systems
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$177K/yr
An extremely exciting company has partnered with us to scale its engineering team, and we're looking for a Senior Integration & Test Engineer to play a key role in advancing next-generation effector ...
Integration & Test Engineer - Effector Systems
El Segundo, CA · On-site
$177K/yr
An extremely exciting company has partnered with us to scale its engineering team, and we're looking for a Senior Integration & Test Engineer to play a key role in advancing next-generation effector ...
Founding Head of Robotics Systems
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$180 - $280/hr
Our client is building autonomous warehouses for middle-mile logistics. Their goal is to deploy full-stack, end-to-end automation into warehouses, moving from isolated point solutions toward ...
Founding Head of Robotics Systems
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$180 - $280/hr
Our client is building autonomous warehouses for middle-mile logistics. Their goal is to deploy full-stack, end-to-end automation into warehouses, moving from isolated point solutions toward ...
$250 - $450/hr
VP, Robot Learning Location: San Francisco Bay Area Employment Type: Full-Time Level: Executive / Technical Leadership Work Arrangement: On-Site / Highly Collaborative About the Opportunity An early ...
$250 - $450/hr
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Principal / Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-Site Department: Engineering About the Opportunity An advanced ...
Principal / Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Work Arrangement: On-Site Department: Engineering About the Opportunity An advanced ...
Lead Turbomachinery Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · On-site
$180 - $260/hr
Lead Turbomachinery Engineer Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Department: Engineering Level: Senior Technical Leadership About the Opportunity An early-stage energy ...
Lead Turbomachinery Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · On-site
$180 - $260/hr
Lead Turbomachinery Engineer Location: Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Employment Type: Full-Time Department: Engineering Level: Senior Technical Leadership About the Opportunity An early-stage energy ...
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We're looking for a Senior Optical Design Engineer to take true end-to-end ownership of critical optical subsystems—from first sketch and simulation, through prototyping and test, all the way to production hardware flying on mission-critical platforms. This isn't a role where you hand off your design and wait to hear how it went. You'll be in the lab aligning it, in the design review defending it, and in the field watching it perform.
If you want your optics work to matter—not just on paper, but in systems that ship—this is that role.
What This Role Owns- Lead the design, modeling, and tolerance analysis of complex multi-element optical systems, from concept through final release
- Develop and validate optical architectures for laser-based and imaging systems
- Own optical performance budgets and run trade studies across SWaP, cost, reliability, and manufacturability, balancing physics with what's actually buildable
- Build, test, and troubleshoot prototypes through flight and production hardware, hands-on
- Partner across disciplines - Systems, Electrical, Mechanical, and Manufacturing - to ensure clean system integration
- Drive technical design reviews and mentor junior optical engineers, shaping both the technical outcome and the next generation of optical talent on the team
- Support the transition of optical designs from R&D into production, closing the gap between "it works in the lab" and "it works at scale"
- 9+ years of experience in optical design, with direct work in nanophotonics, metasurface design, or optical phased arrays
- Background in optical compute, laser communications, or 4D lidar, or a closely adjacent field
- Strong laser system and laser-based architecture experience
- Hands-on experience taking optical designs from prototype through production
- US citizenship with eligibility for clearance
- Willing and able to work on-site full time
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field
- Experience supporting defense or aerospace programs
- Hands-on experience with optical testing, alignment, and metrology
- Prior technical leadership or mentorship experience
You'll have real ownership, real impact, and real hardware to point to. This is a chance to work at the leading edge of optical engineering, on systems that push the boundaries of what's possible in defense and aerospace, surrounded by a team that moves fast, cares deeply about getting the physics right, and wants to build things that actually fly.