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Optical Test Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)

SpaceX· Mesh Optical
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Optical Test Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating optical metrology equipment to validate optical flight hardware for SpaceX's Starmind AI satellite project. Involves automating tests, data collection, mentoring technicians, and ensuring testability aligns with design intent across high-volume production.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate optical metrology and test systems
  • Use test data to troubleshoot issues with optical flight hardware
  • Automate optical test equipment and data collection
  • Instruct technicians on operation of test equipment
  • Inform optical flight hardware designs to enable efficient test operations
  • Apply optics and photonics knowledge to laser communication system trades and component development, including design, analysis, and validation
  • Participate in validation testing, including performance characterization, lot acceptance testing, design qualification testing and reliability testing
  • Develop test plans and maintain design specifications and capabilities data
  • Design test fixtures for engineering and production tests
  • Develop production procedures and processes and manage the transition of parts and assemblies from development to high-rate production
  • Execute design for manufacturability changes to enhance production efficiency

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in physics or an engineering discipline
  • 2+ years of hands-on laboratory or work experience in optics, photonics, laser technology (university lab, student project, or internship experience qualifies)

Skills

Required:optical metrologyoptical test automationoptics and photonics
Nice to have:laser technologyZEMAXCADPython, C/C++communication
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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