Director, LiDAR Systems & Electro-Optical Engineering

Protingent; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Director, Systems and Electro-Optical Engineering opportunity. This role leads the group that defines how our LiDAR sensors are architected, specified, and optically realized, uniting systems, optics, laser, and firmware under one leader.

You will own the product architecture and requirements, mentor senior ICs, and serve as the system-level authority for the sensor.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience in electro-optical or sensor systems.
• Proven track record architecting and shipping electro-optical sensing products (LiDAR, imaging, ranging, photonics, or similar) from concept through production.
• Depth in at least one of optical design or laser engineering, and fluency in the other, sufficient to own trade-offs across both.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals: requirements decomposition, interface control, and design review governance.
• Experience establishing a requirements and architecture baseline in a company that did not yet have one, and transitioning designs from prototype to production under change control.
• Experience with electro-optical and system-level failure analysis.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication, with the ability to translate technical detail for executive and customer audiences.
• Bachelor's degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end sensor architecture: requirements decomposition, interface definition, and system-level trade studies across subsystems.
• Lead optical design and laser engineering as part of systems architecture and manage trade-offs affecting range, resolution, SNR, and eye safety.
• Own system-level requirements for how the sensor scans and samples the scene; define acceptance criteria for firmware and software implementations.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of senior contributors spanning architecture, engineering, and laser design.
• Act as system-level interface between Hardware, Firmware, Software, Product, Quality, and Operations; drive root-cause analysis.

Skills

Systems architecture

Electro-optical design

Laser engineering

Systems engineering

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering

Job description

Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct hire Director, Systems and Electro-Optical Engineering opportunity. This role leads the group that defines how our LiDAR sensors are architected, specified, and optically realized, uniting systems, optics, laser, and firmware under one leader.

You will own the product architecture and requirements, mentor senior ICs, and serve as the system-level authority for the sensor.