Systems Engineer (Infrared Detectors)

Location: US - Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania (TDY); successful applicants must be a U.S. Person

Company

Teledyne Judson Technologies develops visible-to-long-wave infrared detectors, focal plane arrays, and integrated dewar cooler assemblies for commercial, industrial, space, and military applications.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and characterize detector packages and integrated dewar-cooled arrays.
• Evaluate customer requirements and specify focal plane packaging and cooling solutions.
• Create technical models, drawings, calculations, simulations, cost models, schedules, and risk analyses.
• Perform thermal, structural, vibration, fastener pre-load, finite element, stress, and vacuum-life analyses.
• Develop test strategies, fixtures, tooling, procedures, and reports; support procurement, assembly, testing, and failure analysis.
• Lead designers and project teams while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and trade compliance personnel.

Requirements

• U.S. Person status is required due to facility work and access restrictions.
• Master’s or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, with more than 15 years of directly related experience, or more than 10 years with a Ph.D.
• At least 5 years of detector packaging experience, especially vacuum dewar design.
• Significant high-vacuum processing experience, including RGA analysis, getter activation and degas, pinch-off, and helium leak checking.
• Experience with SolidWorks, Ansys, laser welding, metrology, GD&T, ASME Y14, and Design of Experiments.
• Ability to prepare technical reports and presentations, conduct failure analysis, and lead project work.

Nice to have

• Experience with photodetectors, cameras, optical design or modeling, and Zemax.
• Knowledge of ISO or AS9100, HALT/HASS testing, and MIL-STD 883.
• Experience with LabVIEW, MATLAB, MS Visio, database, ERP, and office productivity software.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a competitive salary and benefits package.
• Health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid vacation, sick time, and holidays.
• 401(k) eligibility and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Educational tuition reimbursement.
• Work focused on high-reliability sensing technologies for commercial, industrial, space, and military applications.