Craig Olson

Senior Principal Engineer, EOIR Systems

Role
Senior Principal Engineer at Areté
Location
Windsor, CA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Craig Olson

EOIR and IRST engineer with multidisciplinary background in optical / electrical / laser…

Experience

  1. Senior Principal Engineer

    Areté

    Oct 2024 — Present

    Responsibilities encompass the full product life cycle for EOIR and IRST sensor systems for US DOD customers- Identifying new business and critical customer operational needs- Coordinating end-user & real-time operational feedback with system performance- Identifying and developing low-TRL sensor technology for operational capability- Defining and deriving requirements within mission/CONOPS and system trade space context- Architecting and coding sensor performance models using DoD and custom codes- Designing and tolerancing visible, SWIR and thermal infrared zoom lens assemblies- Developing custom optomechanical tolerancing tools for precision alignment- Procurement, supply chain development, and test methodology

Education

  • Georgia Institute of Technology

    BSEE, Electrical Engineering

    1989 — 1993

  • University of Rochester

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Optics

    1993 — 1999

Skills

  • Mems
  • Manufacturing
  • Sensors
  • Optical Engineering
  • Labview
  • Interferometry
  • Optics
  • Testing
  • Photonics
  • Physics
  • Engineering
  • Electronics
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Dod
  • Aerospace
  • Team Leadership
  • R&D
  • Metrology
  • System Design
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Systems Engineering
  • Optical Fiber
  • Laser
  • Simulations
  • Zemax
  • Engineering Management
  • Project Management
  • Electro-Optics

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