# Specialist, Optical Engineer

Job Title: Specialist, Optical Engineering Job Code: 47641 Job Location: Carlsbad, CA Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off Job Description: The Carlsbad optical engineering team turns fiber-optic, precision-microscopy, and waveguide concepts into validated optical components and assemblies. The work spans optical design, modeling, laboratory characterization, and integration, with responsibility for delivering technically sound assigned work reliably and with minimal supervision. Essential Functions: Generate and evaluate optical design concepts for fiber optics, precision microscopy, and waveguides, and use models, prototypes, or experiments to complete assigned technology development and validate the results. Analyze optical designs, coupling efficiency, loss budgets, and alignment tolerances to compare design options and guide component and assembly development. Build, align, and characterize fiber-optic and precision optical assemblies, selecting appropriate laboratory instruments and measurement methods for the assigned task. Use microscopy and optical metrology to assess waveguide performance,

- **Id**: 4137307
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/l3harris-technologies-specialist-optical-engineer>
- **Role**: Semiconductors
- **Role family**: Semiconductors
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Carlsbad, 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**: 2026-11-12T04:06:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T04:06:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3925
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Education assistance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: C4ISR, Military Satellites, Military Communication, Electronic Warfare

## Company

- **Id**: 177017
- **Name**: L3Harris Technologies
- **Domain**: l3harris.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/l3harris-technologies>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 99
- **Open postings**: 61
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.033
- **Repost share**: 0.033
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 22
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 97000
- **Max**: 180000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 180000

## Technologies

- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T04:06:10Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T07:27:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 180000
- **Is top pay**: no

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