Optical Engineer

America is critically deficient in production of defensive munitions- we currently produce shipborne interceptors in the few hundreds per year while our adversaries are producing offensive threats in the tens of thousands per year. Furientis was started to help solve this problem- introducing a new class of cost-effective, high production rate, interceptor missiles. We're seeking motivated individuals who internalize this problem and are eager to apply their past experience in similar industries (aerospace, defense, automotive/racing, robotics) and out of the box thinking to solve this problem for the US and its allies.

You will work with the other seeker team engineers to design, build, align, and test the optical assemblies and laser-based subsystems of our seeker, taking concepts from initial ray trace and breadboard setups at the optical bench through flight-ready hardware. Your day-to-day work spans general optical engineering across both passive and active paths: laying out lenses, prisms, mirrors, filters, and beam-steering optics; characterizing laser sources, avalanche photodiodes (APDs), and array detectors; and closing radiometric and optical link budgets against real hardware measurements.