Manufacturing Engineer - Optics

The role

The Manufacturing Engineer, Optics Lab develops, improves, and sustains manufacturing processes for optical and optomechanical hardware. This role translates engineering requirements into production methods and supports operations, quality, and supply chain teams.

What you will do

• Develop, document, and improve optical and optomechanical manufacturing processes, work instructions, and tooling.
• Support new product introduction, prototype builds, and production release within the optics lab.
• Develop and validate methods for optical cleaning, handling, bonding, mounting, alignment, and inspection.
• Translate optical drawings and requirements into executable production documentation and acceptance criteria.
• Design, procure, and qualify optical assembly fixtures, alignment tooling, and test equipment.
• Analyze yield, alignment performance, defects, cycle time, and process capability.
• Drive root cause analysis and corrective action for optical performance issues and contamination events.
• Work with cross-functional engineering teams to improve manufacturability, reliability, and cost.
• Support nonconformance reviews, material review board activities, and engineering change implementation.
• Establish process controls for cleanliness, ESD, environmental conditions, and calibration.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Knowledge of manufacturing process development, production documentation, root cause analysis, process validation, and continuous improvement methods.
• Working knowledge of optical assembly, alignment, inspection, metrology, precision handling, or optomechanical integration principles.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, optical drawings, bills of material, specifications, work instructions, test data, and acceptance requirements.
• Strong communication, hands-on problem-solving, data analysis, and cross-functional coordination skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, defense, space, medical, laser, imaging, lidar, semiconductor, or other high-reliability optical manufacturing environments.
• Experience supporting production optical alignment, precision bonding, optical cleaning, contamination control, metrology, environmental testing, or failure analysis.
• Familiarity with interferometers, autocollimators, collimators, alignment telescopes, microscopes, power meters, beam profilers, coordinate measurement systems, or related optical lab equipment.
• Familiarity with Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, PFMEA, control plans, statistical process control, measurement system analysis, process capability, and process validation.
• Experience with ERP/MRP, MES, PLM, CAD, data-acquisition systems, statistical analysis tools, MATLAB, Python, or similar engineering tools.
• Experience with AS9100, ISO 9001, NASA workmanship standards, cleanroom or contamination-control practices, ESD controls, or related production standards.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary annual bonus plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Comprehensive health benefit package
• Retirement savings
• Wellness program

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

About the company

Voyager is an innovative defense, national security and space technology company. They tackle complex challenges to deliver transformative, mission-critical solutions for human progress and national security.