- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- BellevueWashingtonUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Sep 2, 2026
- Salary
- $220,000–$292,000 a year
Full-time
Optical Systems Technical Lead, AR/VR Displays - EagleEye
Job description
Our Warfighter Systems division is pioneering a future where mixed reality (MR), creates immersive, intuitive, and life-saving technologies. By seamlessly integrating real-time data with cutting-edge visualization tools, we are empowering warfighters with unparalleled situational awareness, enhanced training experiences, and operational superiority. This team is consistently pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and shaping a future where technology and defense unite to protect our nation.
Come join one of the strongest performing mixed reality teams in the industry, dedicated to revolutionizing experiences for the warfighter.
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a…
Job responsibilities
- Lead architecture decisions and optical trades for novel near-to-eye display sub-systems against broadly defined missions.
- Own the optical system across its full lifecycle — not just architecture and design, but integration, alignment, test, and successful verification and validation (V&V) of as-built hardware.
- Define optical performance requirements given multi-disciplinary engineering constraints, and flow them down into component and subassembly specifications within mechanical, electrical, thermal, and industrial design…
- Build and defend the optical error budget for the system, allocating tolerance across components, assembly processes, and alignment operations.
- Partner closely and continuously with optical process engineering — co-developing manufacturing and metrology processes, grounding tolerances in real process capability, and closing the loop between design intent and…
- Own the correlation between model and measured hardware, closing the loop between predicted and as-built performance so that each design iteration is more predictive than the last.
- Evaluate and analyze prototype and production optical system performance errors to determine root cause.
Job requirements
- BS in Engineering, with a concentration in Optics.
- Relevant experience in the design and analysis of complex optical systems — including optical system design, analysis, alignment, and test — in industry or an applicable academic environment.
- Demonstrated ownership across the full systems-engineering lifecycle , from architecture through verification and validation of delivered hardware.
- Deep experience with optical design and analysis software (Zemax or CODE V).
- Experience with STOP (Structural, Thermal, and Optical Performance) analysis.
- Knowledge of image quality metrics and data analysis methods.
- Experience with the design of diffraction-limited imaging systems in dynamic environments.
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally on a regular cadence (see Travel).