Lead Engineer – Satellite Optical Systems
WhiteCrow
- Abu Dhabi
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead high-resolution optical payload development, manufacturing, and related activities.
- Define the optical payload development, procurement, delivery, operations, reliability, and performance requirements across all optical ISR types.
- Provide technical and programmatic oversight to procurement activities.
- Identify risks to vendor delivery of payloads and components.
- Define the long-term strategy and short-term plan to localize optical payload system development in the UAE.
- 15 + years in small satellite high-resolution optical payload system design.
- Deep and demonstrable knowledge of high-resolution optical payload system design and performance assessment.
- Experience working in the UAE or Middle East is desirable.
- Experience working on ISR data products including AI/ML is desirable.
- Experience working on optical Earth observation data pre-processing workflows (system correction, calibration, terrain correction, video).