About EON Space Labs
EON Space Labs is a Hyderabad-based defence-technology company building indigenous EO/IR optical payloads for space, aerial and ground platforms – from miniaturised telescopes and star trackers for satellites, to EO/IR gimbals for UAVs, to long-range ground surveillance systems.

Objective
Own the optical bench. You will take our payloads from loose optics to aligned, characterised, flight- and field-ready hardware – setting up the test methods, running them, and writing the procedures that make the results repeatable.

Key Roles & Responsibilities
A. Optical Alignment & Assembly
· Align and integrate reflective, refractive and catadioptric optical systems (e.g., Cassegrain / Ritchey–Chrétien telescopes, multi-element VIS and LWIR lenses) to specified wavefront and focus tolerances.
· Focus and boresight detectors to optics; set and verify back-focal distance, tilt and decentre; align EO and IR channels to a common line of sight.
· Work with mechanical engineers on mounts, shims,



adhesives and bonding processes that hold alignment through vibration and temperature change.
B. Test & Characterisation
· Measure MTF (slanted-edge, knife-edge or bar targets on a collimator), effective focal length, distortion, field of view, stray light and relative illumination.
· For IR cameras: measure NETD, MTF and MRTD using blackbody sources; perform non-uniformity correction (NUC) checks.
· Support environmental and qualification testing – thermal cycling, thermal-vacuum, vibration – including pre/post optical performance checks.
C. Lab Ownership
· Set up and maintain the optical lab: collimators, autocollimators, interferometer, optical tables, blackbodies, laser sources and measurement instruments.
· Maintain cleanroom (ISO-classified area) and ESD discipline, optics handling and cleaning practice, and laser safety per IEC 60825-1.
· Automate repetitive measurements and data reduction in Python or MATLAB.
D. Documentation & Cross-Functional Work
· Write test

📌 Optical Engineer – Payload Integration (Hyderabad)
🏢 Eon Space Labs
📍 Hyderabad