Optical Investigator

Optical Investigator
Job Category: Engineering
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: None
Type of Travel: None
CACI is looking for a Optical Investigator to join our NSIS (National Security & Innovative Solutions) division, supporting our photonics team-- we are expanding! Our laser communications technology is helping NASA provide high-definition video from the International Space Station, and to explore asteroids 250 million miles away. Our other optical technology can also help scientists discover biohazards; support intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions; and protect soldiers from explosive devices. Do you have a passion for innovation? Apply now and join the team!
Candidates must live within a 60 miles radius of Florham Park, NJ or be willing to relocate. Employees are expected to work in-person. However, we can make accommodations for some remote work on an as-needed basis.
What You'll Get to Do:
- Lead the development of new and innovative optical designs using doped-fiber, planar waveguide and other technologies.
- Develop innovative optical solutions related to optical communications, optical remote sensing, photonic integrated circuits, lasers, optical amplifiers, and optical transmitters and receivers
- Develop and employ software for the modeling and simulation of rare earth doped material systems, optical propagation, and optical nonlinearities.
- Serve as primary US Government customer support, understand customer technical problems, formulate creative solutions, and contribute to selling of proposed solutions and lead technical execution of resulting programs.
- Collaborate with customers to reach mutually-accepted set of specifications for complex projects, and flow those requirements down to subsystems in a Systems Engineering effort.
- Coordinate, plan and schedule project requirement definitions, project commitments, coordinate staff member assignments, and develop and manage to program budgets.
- Lead project team meetings and facilitate tracking/completion of action items.
- Recruit, lead and grow high performance technical teams to innovate and execute both short-term and long-term project goals.
- Provide briefings for customers on project status, results of work, concepts and new business ideas.
- Prepare progress reports on all projects of responsibility as per contract requirements.
- Interface with both internal and external customers to ensure the project is meeting schedule and cost constraints.
- Identify new business opportunities with new and existing customers, match customer needs with department capabilities, work with customers to create procurement vehicles, lead/contribute to proposal teams to generate responsive and competitive proposals and follow through with customer until contract award.
- Participate in strategic planning sessions and assist in executing the implementation of strategic plan by working with managers and engineers.
- Develop marketing and product material for showcasing tools and applications including brochures, presentations, multimedia material and equipment demonstrations.
- Recommend and initiate process improvements and overall development practices.
- Develop trade studies to compare different potential designs and select the optimum approach.
- May lead a team of professionals
You'll Bring These Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in optics, physics, or Electrical Engineering and 5 years of experience or an equivalent combination of skills, education, and experience
- Prior knowledge related to fiber lasers and amplifiers (e.g. ultra-fast, high-average-power, and/or rare-earth-doped optical sources and amplifiers, including work on the effect of optical nonlinearities)
- Experience working in an inter-disciplinary team environment
- Experience in the field of Optical Research
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent presentation and writing skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft software applications and other software applications as required
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- PhD in optics, physics, or a related field.
What We Can Offer You:
- We've been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
- We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
- We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation's highest priorities.
- For over 55 years, the principles of CACI's unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.
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Company Overview: At CACI, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
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