Senior Fiber Optic Gyroscope Engineer (Photonics)

Location: Sydney, Australia

Company

hirify.global develops AI, robotics, navigation, photonics, inertial sensing, and related technologies for land, air, sea, and space applications.

What you will do

• Support the design, development, integration, and verification of fiber optic gyroscopes and related optical subsystems.
• Analyse FOG and IMU performance, including bias, bias instability, angle random walk, scale factor, linearity, noise, and thermal behaviour.
• Plan and conduct optical, environmental, and system-level tests using laboratory measurement equipment.
• Investigate technical issues through root-cause analysis and develop troubleshooting and verification plans.
• Define acceptance criteria, test checkpoints, and characterisation methods for components, subassemblies, and completed units.
• Work with photonics, electronics, FPGA, mechanical, algorithm, manufacturing, and calibration teams to improve product performance, repeatability, and yield.

Requirements

• Degree in Physics, Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong experience in fiber optics, photonic systems, optical sensing, inertial sensors, or a closely related field.
• Experience analysing complex test data and translating findings into practical engineering actions.
• Experience with optical measurement equipment and laboratory-based testing.
• Strong understanding of experimental design, measurement uncertainty, structured troubleshooting, technical communication, and documentation.
• Ability to work independently on complex investigations and collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of FOG optical architecture, including light sources, couplers, integrated optical components, photodetectors, and polarization-maintaining fiber.
• Experience with fiber coil characterisation, winding parameters, polarization behaviour, insertion loss, and optical power measurements.
• Understanding of closed-loop gyro operation, modulation, signal processing, and control principles.
• Experience with IMU or INS integration, calibration, validation, and environmental testing.
• Experience using MATLAB, Python, LabVIEW, or similar tools for data analysis and test automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative multidisciplinary engineering environment.
• Focus on proactive problem solving, continuous improvement, and technical ownership.
• Opportunities to share knowledge, mentor engineers, and contribute to team capability.
• Work spanning product development, verification, production introduction, and continuous improvement.