Senior Camera Systems Engineer
South Park Commons is a venture capital firm and community for founders and technologists exploring what to build next. It operates member residencies and founder fellowships, provides community and programming, and invests $1 million to $10 million in ambitious early-stage companies.
About South Park Commons
South Park Commons supports founders, researchers, and technologists during the stage from pre-idea to early conviction. Its six-month Member Residency provides a talent-dense community, learning forums, workshops, events, collaboration, and social support at hubs in San Francisco, New York City, and Bengaluru. Its Founder Fellowship and venture fund provide capital and hands-on partner support, including initial investments of $1 million to $10 million, for founders building venture-scale companies. SPC invests across a broad portfolio of technology companies and supports founders through later stages.
Skills
About the Role
In this role, you will fully own the delivery of infrared camera subsystems to multiple concurrent programs. You will develop visible and thermal infrared camera subsystems, generating technical specifications and interface control documents, running trade studies, managing vendors, and performing performance characterization, testing, and failure mode and root cause analysis. You will define camera test requirements, pass/fail criteria, and test strategies, partnering closely with hardware and test engineering teams. You will define parameters for environmental qualification campaigns, including radiation testing and thermal environmental stress screening, reviewing test data and acting as the technical authority on camera subsystem health. You will support subsystem and instrument-level testing, including vibration, thermal-vacuum testing, and system characterization and V&V. You will also contribute to continuously improving best practices, processes, tools, and methodologies, and collaborate with instrument and spacecraft systems engineers, data scientists, AI&T and production teams, and program managers.
Requirements
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in an engineering field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience working in a multi-disciplinary environment with imaging systems and infrared remote sensing instruments
- Software skills in one or more languages (e.g. Python, C++)
- Experience working with precision optical and mechanical metrology equipment
- Experience with root cause analysis efforts including data analysis and testing
- Experience performing data analysis, post-processing, and test report generation for optical component and camera system performance
- Excellent communication, presentation, and organization skills
Responsibilities
- Own development of visible and thermal infrared camera subsystems including technical specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), trade studies, vendor technical management, performance characterization and testing, and failure mode and root cause analysis
- Define camera test requirements, pass/fail criteria, and test strategies in partnership with hardware and test engineering teams
- Define parameters for camera environmental qualification campaigns including radiation testing and thermal environmental stress screening (ESS)
- Review test data and act as the technical authority on camera subsystem health
- Support subsystem and instrument-level testing including vibration, thermal-vacuum (TVAC) testing, and system characterization/V&V
- Contribute to continuous improvement of best practices, processes, tools, and methodologies for instrument development
- Collaborate and communicate with instrument and spacecraft systems engineers, data scientists, AI&T and production teams, and program managers
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401k retirement plan
- Short and long term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Three weeks paid vacation
- 12 paid holidays
- Unlimited sick time
- Paid parental leave
