# Staff Electro-Optical Payload Engineer

Hiring organization: [BlackSky](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/blacksky)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/0088b6b5-5bf9-4394-a889-93f7778eab80

Listed on BlackSky's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: Tukwila, WA or short-term remote
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 155000 – 180000 USD per year

## Summary

This role designs, tests, and integrates electro-optical imaging payloads for satellites, with particular focus on building test facilities and validating payload performance from the lab through on-orbit operations. It suits experienced optical engineers who want to shape the next generation of space-based imaging systems and can transition to hybrid work near Seattle by end of 2026.

_Our summary, not BlackSky's wording._

## Skills named

Python

## Required

- At least 10 years of technical engineering experience with imaging or optical systems specification, modeling, design, integration, or test
- Bachelor's degree in optical engineering, physics, or equivalent technical field plus four years experience
- Hands-on laboratory experience with optical test equipment (interferometers, theodolites, laser trackers, optical alignment)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language for numerical or technical computing
- Strong understanding of optical image formation physics and detector phenomenology in visible and infrared
- Proficiency in radiometry, optical imaging figures of merit, and optical system performance modeling
- Ability to develop specifications for optical systems within a requirements framework
- Familiarity with satellite/payload interfaces, CONOPs constraints, and systems engineering
- US citizenship

## Nice to have

- Graduate degree in a relevant technical field
- Direct experience with spaceborne optical remote sensing systems
- Direct experience in focal plane array design and engineering
- Direct experience in satellite radiometric, spatial, and spectral calibration
- Proficiency with Python for numerical and technical computing
- Experience in a complementary technical discipline such as mechanical, thermal, or electrical engineering

Apply on BlackSky's site: https://boards.greenhouse.io/blacksky/jobs/8610961002?gh_jid=8610961002