Provide technical leadership for the architecture and development of metrology, controls, hardware, and software systems supporting optical system test and measurement.
Supervise, mentor, and provide day-to-day guidance to a team of approximately 6–8 engineers and technicians, including task assignments, technical oversight, and performance feedback.
Define metrology and controls system architectures for test benches to enable comprehensive assessment of optical system performance.
Develop and maintain error budgets and use them to refine test bench architectures to ensure robust and repeatable measurements.
Specify, design, assemble, test, and document automated test and control systems, including motors, detectors, cameras, data acquisition, timing circuitry, wiring, and cable assemblies for prototype and production environments.
Develop and maintain software applications[HJ1] to automate test execution, data acquisition...