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Photonics Specialist

Company

Actalent

Location

Adelphi, MD

Posted

June 24, 2026

Position Overview

Description
Essential Job Responsibilities
• Research adversary warfare systems technology trends and techniques
• Participate in defining requirements for EW compact payloads.
• Apply knowledge of adversary technologies and notional blue force concepts of operations to define requirements for EW compact payloads.
• Derive RF requirements for mixed analog, digital and photonics design and translate into photonics specifications.
• Apply novel trends in photonics RF such as wideband receivers and transmitters, oscillators, low-noise amplifiers, high-power amplifiers, filters, and photonics computation to EW applications including receive, process, and transmit.
• Work with multi-mode (mixed analog/digital/photonics) integrated circuit designers to develop requirements and specifications for fabricated and heterogeneously integrated electronics such as photonics integrated circuits.
• Work with ARL photonics experts and utilize lab equipment to develop physical be...

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