Optics Engineer Straylight Position

vor 3 Wochen


Seefeld, Deutschland OHB Vollzeit

OHB System AG is a leading space company in Europe, part of the OHB SE high-tech group with over 3,000 employees working on pivotal European space programs. With two strong locations in Bremen and Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, OHB System AG specializes in high-tech solutions for space, including low-orbiting and geostationary satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications, science, and space exploration. We owe our success to our employees' passion for innovation, commitment, and initiative.

For permanent employment at OHB System AG in Oberpfaffenhofen, we are looking for a

Straylight Optics Engineer

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Design, analyze, and simulate optical systems from early concept phases to detailed design and during realization.
  • Act as a technical interface to suppliers and subcontractors to guide and monitor their development activities in the field of straylight.
  • Define optical straylight verification, characterization, and correction strategies.
  • Define optical straylight requirements for optical systems, subsystems, and equipment.
  • Conduct trade studies to support optical design decisions and generate proposals for future projects.
  • Present the results of your work in internal and external meetings with customers.
  • Support system-level opto-mechanical integration, alignment, characterization, and test activities in clean rooms, as well as breadboarding in the optics lab.
  • Maintain technical documentation related to optical and opto-mechanical tasks.
  • Support the further development of optical design processes and tools, as well as core competences and enabling technologies.

Your Qualifications

  • University degree or equivalent qualification in optics, physics, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Sound knowledge in the field of straylight analysis, design, characterization, and verification of complex optical systems.
  • Experience in the development of space optical instruments, telescopes, spectrometers, and interferometers.
  • Proficient user of straylight analysis software like ASAP or FRED and optical design software like ZEMAX (NSC) and Code V.
  • Experience in scripting with Python (and MatLab).
  • Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural, and multi-language team.
  • Ability to work simultaneously in different projects.
  • Ability to quickly establish rapport, build trust, and develop working relationships with other team members, customers, and vendors.
  • Organized and structured attitude and process-oriented thinking.
  • High degree of motivation and personal identification with the respective task and project.
  • Excellent English skills, both written and verbal.

Optional Skills

  • Experience in the space-flight industry, preferably with ESA or DLR projects.
  • Experience working in a clean room environment from ISO5 to ISO 8.

We Offer

Flexible working hours, sabbatical, 30 days vacation, and special leave days. Hybrid work and mobile work abroad. Structured on-boarding process with a buddy assigned in the first months. Extensive range of training courses, individual professional development, German language courses, and annual employee dialogue. 13th monthly salary, accident insurance, and company pension plan. High standard company restaurant and generous meals subsidy. Health management, E-GYM, Wellpass, and in-company sports groups. Kindergarten subsidy, kindergarten places, childcare in the vacation period, and paid child sickness days. Subsidized Deutschland ticket, job bike, and parking lots. Company parties and events, Christmas party, Satellite launch events, and NextGen Speakers Night. Company suggestion system and free research and development.

Become part of our international team and take your professional and personal development to a new level. We are happy to receive applications with partial matches.



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