Senior Optical Test Engineer for AR/VR Displays

Anduril Industries; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Bellevue leads advanced mixed reality display development for national defense programs. You will develop and optimize optical test stations and station architectures, enabling top-tier display system development and manufacture for warfighter applications.

This role requires deep technical expertise, creative problem solving, and collaboration across suppliers and contract manufacturers to support rapid national defense initiatives and production ramp.

Qualifications

• BS in Optical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 6–9 years delivering production-ready optical test stations to a supplier factory.
• Knowledge of image quality metrics and data analysis methods.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.
• Knowledge of electro-optical systems design, development, manufacturing and testing.
• Working knowledge of display and imaging metrics: luminance, chromaticity, white point, uniformity, contrast, MTF/SFR, distortion.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integration and test for novel optical test stations, focusing on near-to-eye displays.
• Coordinate with optical suppliers for components, updates, testing and anomaly resolution.
• Develop and bring up display test stations from requirements to vendor build and qualification at contract manufacturers.
• Create alignment plans and procedures for optical test equipment.
• Manage integration and test vendors to scale production of display assemblies.
• Define test setups, procedures, and data to transition R&D products to production.
• Qualify measurement capability with Gauge R&R, MSA, Cp/Cpk and measurement uncertainty analyses.
• Analyze prototype and production optical system performance to identify root cause.
• Interface with test and evaluation teams to qualify optical performance during lab and field tests.
• Support NPI builds on site and provide rapid test support during ramp.

Skills

Optical Engineering

Image quality metrics

Electro-optical systems

Display metrics

Test & validation

Vendor management

Travel willingness

Education

BS in Optical Engineering

MS in Optical Science/Optical Engineering

Tools

Gauge R&R

MSA

DOE

Optical test equipment

Job description

Anduril Industries in Bellevue leads advanced mixed reality display development for national defense programs. You will develop and optimize optical test stations and station architectures, enabling top-tier display system development and manufacture for warfighter applications.

This role requires deep technical expertise, creative problem solving, and collaboration across suppliers and contract manufacturers to support rapid national defense initiatives and production ramp.