Optical Test Engineer (m/f/x)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Gilching

Your way into the future

Join us as Optical Test Engineer (m/f/d) and work with us on changing the future!

What awaits you at Mynaric

You plan tests, mainly in the field of optics, elaborate their test specifications and procedures in accordance to test standards and requirements in close cooperation with other teams. These tests setups include, but are not limited to:
- handling of infrared laser beams
- opto-mechanical systems
- fiber optics
- beam quality measurements
- optical simulation of vast distances
Ownership of production-related work packages to successfully meet our production volume targets thorough sub-component level testing, aligning, maintaining, and optimizing the corresponding test setups. When necessary, this involves performing reworking processing steps, and/or their coordination and implementation.
Hands-on preparation of these tests and their execution, some under clean room conditions, will be part of your tasks, as well as the test data acquisition, processing, analysis, and interpretation.
Depending on the type of test, you prepare and finalize the required documents for certification, production, or knowledge conservation.
You provide input to our design engineers and the respective project teams from a testing perspective and feed their input back to the testing team.

What you bring with you

University degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent work experience.
Passion to work at the cutting edge of technology.
Background and experience in optics
- measurement concepts and tools and their application in practice
- experience in alignment of (infrared) optical systems
- experience with fiber optics
- ZEMAX modelling experience are beneficial
- LabVIEW and Python skills are beneficial
Team spirit and eagerness to learn and share knowledge.
Hands-on mindset for practical solutions.
Creative solutions to complex technological problems.

What we offer you

Be part of the company that is changing the world!
Have you always wanted to wear your favourite space outfit to work? Then you are exactly the
right fit for us! Forget the office politics and come and work with inspiring colleagues from all
over the world as you embark on an incredible journey with Mynaric to work on unique and
challenging projects and make a real contribution to the future of connectivity.

We offer you permanent employment, varied areas of responsibility, and attractive employee
benefits. Mynaric is absolutely committed to being an equal opportunity employer so we
welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, sex, gender,
disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

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About us

Mynaric produces optical fiber for the skies and, as a pioneer in laser communications, enables extremely fast and secure wireless data transmission between satellites, drones and the ground. The products are used by well-known international technology companies to build global communication networks. The emerging Internet over the clouds will connect the previously disconnected 3 billion people, bring the Internet of Things to the remotest corners of the earth and make international communication more secure than ever.

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