Optical Technician III (EO/IR)

Location: Louisville, Colorado, United States; onsite only with no remote or telework allowed

Salary: $40,752.75–$70,861.13 per year

Company

hirify.global's Orion Space Solutions designs and builds operational space payloads for national security and advanced sensing missions.

What you will do

• Set up, run, and document optical tests for payloads, optical benches, filters, detectors, calibration hardware, and prototype or flight-like assemblies.
• Perform FTIR measurements and spectral characterization covering transmission, reflection, coating performance, filter behavior, and LWIR-relevant optical response.
• Support visible-through-LWIR measurements using spectrometers, broadband sources, lasers, blackbodies, collimators, integrating spheres, cameras, detectors, and data-acquisition tools.
• Perform optical metrology, inspection, alignment checks, dimensional checks, clear-aperture verification, surface-quality inspection, and cleanliness/FOD verification.
• Handle and align precision optical hardware while following cleanroom, ESD, and contamination-control practices.
• Collect and reduce test data, maintain laboratory records, support acceptance and environmental testing, troubleshoot anomalies, and keep laboratory equipment ready for use.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience as an optical technician, with 5–6 years of relevant experience preferred.
• Experience in an optical manufacturing or R&D setting.
• Proficiency with optical tools and instruments and a strong understanding of optical principles, systems, and lens technology.
• Experience testing, troubleshooting, and repairing optical systems.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, follow detailed procedures, and maintain a high level of precision and attention to detail.
• Basic computer skills for record-keeping and effective verbal and written communication.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment.
• Health, life, disability, and retirement benefits may be available depending on the position.
• Paid time off and holiday pay.
• Learning and development opportunities and wellness programs.
• Work directly with optical engineering teams on operational space hardware and mission-critical data systems.