# Senior Staff Optical Engineer, Geo

About the job Geo Hardware creates the devices that provide the most detailed imagery of our planet to drive a variety of direct and intermediate value to mapping and other partner and consumer value. A massive focus of this effort is our imagery, and the most consequential part of that imagery (apart from ensuring that we properly record where it is taken) is the quality of the pixels. The optical path is crucial for this effort, and our requirements are unique. This makes mastery of several optical disciplines (theoretical and physical foundations, optical materials and coatings, design and simulations, opto-mechanics and packaging, sources detectors and opto-electronics, fabrication/manufacturing, and metrology/characterization) important for this role. As a Senior Staff Optical Engineer, you will require strong communication in order to effectively function in this role, in addition to strong technical execution and leadership. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $236000 - $329000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities Serve as process

- **Id**: 3866410
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/google-senior-staff-optical-engineer-geo>
- **Role**: Semiconductors
- **Role family**: Semiconductors
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T09:36:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T16:57:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3300
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Operating Systems, Video & Photo Sharing

## Company

- **Id**: 82
- **Name**: Google
- **Domain**: google.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/google>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 132
- **Ghost share**: 0.045
- **Stale share**: 0.75
- **Repost share**: 0.045
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T12:20:23Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8,371 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 8371

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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