High-Power Laser Engineer - Directed Energy

Electro Optic Systems International Pty Ltd; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

EOS is building our high energy laser weapon capability. The Directed Energy group develops laser systems for counter-uncrewed aircraft and short-range air defence, spanning the laser source, beam director, tracking and fire control, power and thermal management and platform integration.

As a Laser Engineer you will work on the source itself: amplifier chains, pump architecture, beam delivery and combining that turn electrical power into a militarily useful beam on target.

Qualifications

• Degree in physics, photonics, optical engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with high power laser systems, fibre or bulk solid-state.
• Demonstrated competence aligning and safely operating Class 4 lasers, CW and pulsed.
• Experience with laser diagnostics including power meters, beam profilers, beam quality measurement, wavefront sensors and optical spectrum analysers.
• Willingness to travel to test ranges and trial sites, including out-of-hours work.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, align and characterise high power laser sources and beam paths.
• Specify and select laser components and lead technical exchanges with vendors.
• Characterise system performance including output power, beam quality, spectral content, polarisation and stability.
• Design and execute laboratory and range test campaigns with test plans and reports.
• Diagnose and resolve laser faults during integration and trials.

Education

Degree in physics, photonics, optical engineering or closely related discipline

Tools

Power meters

Beam profilers

Optical spectrum analysers

Job description

EOS is building our high energy laser weapon capability. The Directed Energy group develops laser systems for counter-uncrewed aircraft and short-range air defence, spanning the laser source, beam director, tracking and fire control, power and thermal management and platform integration.

As a Laser Engineer you will work on the source itself: amplifier chains, pump architecture, beam delivery and combining that turn electrical power into a militarily useful beam on target.