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**Position Overview:**

We are hiring an Optics Engineer to architect and own optical subsystems within Becoming’s integrated hardware platform.

This is a senior builder role. You will design stable, production-grade optical systems that integrate tightly with mechanical structures, electronics, firmware, and data systems — and you will be accountable for their real-world performance.

This is not a research imaging role. You will think in terms of alignment stability, signal integrity, manufacturability, and long-duration runtime.

You will define specifications, make architecture decisions, and own outcomes.

**What You’ll Own**

• End-to-end ownership of optical subsystems inside complex hardware platforms
• Optical path architecture: illumination, detection, filtering, and signal optimization
• Component selection with attention to stability, lifecycle, and manufacturability
• Mechanical integration and alignment strategy under thermal and environmental constraints
• Electrical integration of detectors and signal acquisition systems
• Signal-to-noise optimization and drift mitigation
• Calibration frameworks and long-term stability validation
• Prototyping, stress testing, and failure analysis
• Documentation and standards that enable scaling

**Who You Are**

You are someone who:

• Operates with high agency — you identify problems, define solutions, and execute
• Takes end-to-end ownership of what you build
• Brings high energy to complex, ambiguous engineering challenges
• Acts with high integrity — you are honest about tradeoffs, risks, and failure modes
• Communicates directly and clearly, especially when something won’t work
• Is self-aware about your strengths and gaps, and proactively fills them
• Thinks like a systems integrator, not a narrow specialist
• Cares deeply about understanding systems at a first-principles level

**Requirements**

• Have built optical systems that operated outside of controlled lab demos
• Think in systems, not just ray traces
• Understand how optical decisions impact mechanical tolerances and electrical noise
• Surface limitations and risks clearly
• Prefer robust architectures over fragile precision
• Stay composed debugging signal degradation in live systems
• Raise the technical bar around you
• You take responsibility for whether the signal holds up over time — not just whether the design simulated correctly.

Strong Signals

• Degree in optics, physics, electrical engineering, or equivalent demonstrated depth
• Experience designing and shipping integrated optical systems
• Strong first-principles understanding of optical design and detection physics
• Experience integrating optics with mechanical and electrical platforms
• Demonstrated ownership of systems operating under real-world constraints
• Ability to operate without rigid process scaffolding or heavy vendor abstraction

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $110,000.00 - $160,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Ability to Commute:

• San Francisco, CA (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• San Francisco, CA: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Preferred)

Work Location: In person