Top 1287 Senior optical engineer Jobs in New Jersey

Senior Research Engineer
Peraton —Red Bank, NJ
- $135,000 - $216,000 a year
- Call employer
- Computer Science
- Bachelor of Science
- Engineering
- Health savings account
- Paid holidays
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Senior Infrastructure Engineer
firstPRO Inc. —Township of Jackson, NJ
- $115,000 - $120,000 a year
- Full-time
- Computer Science
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise —New Jersey
- $146,000 - $343,000 a year
- Full-time
- Remote
- System design
- Analysis skills
- Fair chance
- Opportunities for advancement
Senior Full Stack Engineer
MLabs —Jersey City, NJ
- $175,000 - $225,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- 5 years
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Bank of America —Jersey City, NJ
- $152,600 - $191,500 a year
- Full-time
- Azure
- System design
- Office
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Counterpart Health —Jersey City, NJ
- $140,000 - $175,000 a year
- Remote
- Scripting
- Fair chance
- Training & development
- Paid parental leave
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Senior Supplier Quality Engineer
DBV Technologies —New Jersey
- $125,000 - $150,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- English
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Senior Optical Engineer
Ciena —New Providence, NJ
- $133,100 - $212,500 a year
- Full-time
- 5 years
- Master's degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid holidays
Senior Optical Engineer - Optical Solutions
Molex —Bridgewater, NJ
- $150,000 - $190,000 a year
- Engineering
- Pass drug screening
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Paid parental leave
- Health savings account
Sr Optical Engineer
AMETEK, Inc. —Denville, NJ
- $100,000 - $175,000 a year
- 5 years
- Analysis skills
- US work authorization
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
Senior Engineer, R&D
Stryker —Mahwah, NJ
- $93,200 - $155,400 a year
- Full-time
- Engineering
- Mid-level
- Continuous improvement
- Health savings account
- AD&D insurance
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Senior QA Automation Engineer
Makai Labs —New Jersey
- $53 - $58 an hour
- Contract
- Remote
- SQL
- Analysis skills
- JavaScript
Senior QA Engineer
DataMotion —New Jersey
- Full-time
- Azure
- Computer Science
- Software troubleshooting
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
Senior Optical Engineer
Peraton —Woodbridge, NJ
- $146,000 - $234,000 a year
- Part-time
- Microsoft Word
- Bachelor of Science
- System design
- Health savings account
- Paid holidays
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Senior (Maintenance) Engineer
Entarian —New Jersey
- $102,000 - $127,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Excel
- Maintenance
- 11+ years
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Senior AI Engineer
Verizon —Basking Ridge, NJ
- $101,000 - $194,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- Computer Science
- Research
- Paid parental leave
- AD&D insurance
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Senior Production Support Engineer - AVP
Barclays —Whippany, NJ
- $115,000 - $160,000 a year
- Office
- Windows
- SQL
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
Senior Privileged Access Management Engineer
Zelis —Morristown, NJ
- $127,000 - $160,550 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- DevOps
- System design
- HIPAA
- Paid holidays
- Disability insurance

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Senior Research Engineer

Peraton -
Red Bank, NJ

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Job Details

$135,000 - $216,000 a year

Benefits

Health savings account
Paid holidays
Disability insurance
Health insurance
Dental insurance
401(k)
Paid time off
Parental leave
Employee assistance program
Vision insurance
Life insurance

Qualifications

Process flow diagrams
Customer communication
Software engineering
Requirements specification
Requirements design
System design for system development
Requirements analysis
Design engineering
Systems engineering
Requirements management
Engineering product development
Algorithm design research
Systems analysis
Design (software development lifecycle)
Technical product management experience within tech

Full Job Description

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

About The Role

Peraton is seeking a Senior Research Engineer to help drive an established program developing a mature, fielded RF spectrum planning, monitoring, and management system for Department of Defense customers. The development team is strong in full-stack web development; this role exists to add deep engineering and product-definition leadership on top of that foundation.

This individual owns the “what” and the “how it should work.” They translate user needs and operational context into concrete requirements, workflows, interface behavior, data flows, and algorithms. This individual should be able to specify the work precisely enough (through diagrams, pseudocode, and reference implementations) for the team to build it reliably. Direct development is not necessarily expected, but they should be comfortable exploring or reviewing the code itself where necessary. They should be able to contribute to, understand, and defend architecture decisions.

The role functions as a force multiplier for program leadership, absorbing the systems-engineering and product-definition load that currently bottlenecks on too few people. Domain expertise in RF and spectrum management is a strong advantage but is not required; what is required is the engineering horsepower and discipline to master an unfamiliar technical domain quickly and reason about it from first principles.

Success in this role demands genuine technical depth, sound product judgment about what will most increase the product’s value to customers, and the communication skills to align a team that spans software engineers, domain experts, DoD stakeholders, and end users.

Key Responsibilities:

Own feature and product definition end to end translating user needs and operational context into concrete requirements, workflows, GUI behavior, and data flows
Design and select algorithms; specify them precisely through flowcharts, sequence diagrams, pseudocode, and interface contracts so the development team can implement them reliably
Produce the systems-engineering artifacts that align the team: architecture sketches, data-flow and state diagrams, and interface definitions
Review code and contribute directly where it adds the most leverage; provide pseudocode and reference implementations to unblock and guide the team
Make and defend architecture and design-tradeoff decisions across the frontend, backend, data layer, and algorithms. Not that this role does not require expertise across web development / software engineering best practices and frameworks but a strong candidate will come to understand these core principles from the development team to inform design decisions.
Build and maintain a forward-looking product roadmap grounded in customer demand and an assessment of which capabilities will most increase the product’s value and competitiveness over the coming months
Engage directly with customers, stakeholders, and program leadership to surface needs, validate solutions, and prioritize work
Deliver live demonstrations, technical briefings, and talks at conferences, field exercises, and customer sites
Contribute to user-facing documentation (e.g. user manuals, training material, and operator guides) along with the supporting technical documentation

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

8+ years experience with BS/BA, 6+ years with a MS/MA, or 3+ years experience with a PhD degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software/Systems Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Substantial experience designing and delivering real-world software systems, including demonstrated technical leadership on non-trivial projects
Demonstrated ability to own product and feature definition end to end ranging from user need, to requirements and design, to working software
Strong systems-engineering discipline: decomposing ambiguous problems, defining data flows and interfaces, and producing the diagrams, specifications, and flowcharts that others can build from
Algorithm design and analysis ability with the ability to select, design, and reason about the correctness and performance of algorithms, not merely call existing libraries
Proven ability to ramp quickly on an unfamiliar technical domain using first-principles engineering reasoning
Excellent written and verbal communication; able to present credibly to technical, senior, and non-technical audiences
Willingness and ability to travel for demonstrations, conferences, field exercises, and customer engagements
US citizen with the ability to obtain and maintian a Secret security clearance

Desired Qualifications:

Background in RF, spectrum management, electronic warfare, signal processing, propagation modeling, software defined radios, SIGINT-adjacent systems, or related DoD domains
Experience with the program stack: React, FastAPI, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, message brokers (e.g. NATS, RabbitMQ), and Docker
Coding fluency with ability to read/review code where applicable, and contribute to a production codebase
Hands-on coding fluency across a modern web stack (e.g. Python, TypeScript/JavaScript) is a plus
Familiarity with geospatial visualization (e.g. CesiumJS, PostGIS) and real-time or streaming data
Experience with AI/LLM integration (e.g. MCP, LangGraph, local/air-gapped inference) in a product context
Experience delivering software in DoD or government settings, including familiarity with RMF/ATO, CMMC, and GovCloud or IL4/IL5 environments
Prior customer-facing, forward-deployed, solutions-engineering, or technical product management experience
Advanced degree in a relevant engineering or scientific field

Details

Target Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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