Senior Laser Communications Technologist

Senior Laser Communications Technologist

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university program in electrical engineering, physics or closely related discipline
• Twelve or more years of increasingly responsible related professional engineering/scientific experience, including multi-disciplinary systems engineering and/or program management environments
• Demonstrated knowledge of laser communication systems, atmospheric propagation and adaptive optics hardware implementation
• Current Secret or Top Secret clearance with SSBI or periodic reinvestigation completed within the last 5 years that resulted in clearance granted or maintained

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in support of prototyping, test, and evaluation of optical ground stations and subsystems for space to ground and ground to space laser communication
• Evaluate various atmospheric turbulence mitigation strategies for laser communications including adaptive optics, multi-aperture combining, and interleaving
• Demonstrate adaptive optic correction for representative atmospheric profiles using hardware along with modeling and simulation
• Performing detailed system architecture designs for optical ground stations for space to space and space to ground links
• Develop testbeds that include adaptive optical systems, laser transmitter and receivers, pointing acquisition and track for a variety of communication waveforms
• Innovate solutions to solve capability gaps in laser communication

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree from an accredited program in electrical engineering, physics or closely related discipline
• Optical laser communication ground station experience
• Demonstrated space laser communication experience
• Adaptive optics implementation experience
• Active TS/SCI/Q Clearance