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
Senior Principal Engineer
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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