Director of Optical Engineering

Requirements

• Education: MS degree in Optical Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Experience: 10 + years of experience in optical engineering, including optical design, analysis, integration, and testing of complex optical systems.
• Leadership: 1 5 + years of experience leading technical teams and managing engineering organizations.
• Demonstrated expertise using optical design software such as Zemax (preferred), CODE V, or equivalent tools.
• Strong experience with computational analysis tools such as MATLAB, Python, or similar engineering software.
• Deep understanding of optical design methodologies, optimization techniques, and performance metrics for imaging and laser systems.
• Experience with optical tolerancing, fabrication specifications, statistical performance analysis, and alignment sensitivity assessments.
• Experience integrating and aligning complex optical systems using instrumentation such as theodolites, autocollimators, laser trackers, interferometers, and related metrology equipment.
• Experience performing optical metrology and characterization, including interferometric measurements, surface quality assessment, scatter characterization, and precision inspection techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering efforts from concept through integration and testing.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Additional Information

Xcimer Energy leverages decades of research on Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) combined with groundbreaking new laser architecture. Our mission is to deploy fusion power plants to meet global decarbonization goals as fast as possible. Xcimer has assembled a team of leaders in tough tech, fusion science, and manufacturing with a track record of rapid execution. Supported by leading investors, Xcimer is uniquely positioned to deliver limitless, clean, fusion power to combat climate change. Join us in powering a better world with inertial fusion! This is a full-time, onsite role based at our headquarters in Denver, CO. As a Director of Optical Engineering you will lead the department which staffs the desig n , development, qualification and commissioning of state-of-the-art UV laser optical systems for laser-driven inertial fusion. This role combines deep technical expertise in optical engineering with organizational leadership responsibility for the Optical Engineering team. You will be responsible for building and leading a high-performing team of optical engineers while providing technical direction for the design, analysis, integration, and validation of laser beamlines, diagnostics, optical coatings, adaptive optics systems, and other critical optical subsystems. As a member of the engineering leadership team, you will partner closely with scientists, systems engineers, optical physicists, opto - mechanical engineers, and program leadership to ensure that the optical architectures, technical roadmaps, risks, and deliver y of optical systems , is accomplished in accordance with the requirements of Xcimer's F usion and Directed E nergy mission s . We are looking for a leader who combines exceptional technical depth with strong people leadership, execution discipline, and a passion for solving some of the world's most challenging engineering problems , while very comfortable working in a matrix organization.

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