Fiber-optic sensing and measurement systems for aerospace, defense, and infrastructure
Luna Innovations manufactures high-performance fiber-optic sensing and test products across aerospace, defense, transportation, and infrastructure markets. The tech stack reveals a hardware-focused engineering operation: MATLAB, LabVIEW, and C/C++ dominate alongside embedded protocols (I2C, UART, TCP/IP), with CAD tools (SolidWorks, AutoCAD) central to product design. Active projects span distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems, flow metering, and infrastructure monitoring—suggesting a push toward real-time sensing applications in oil/gas and alternative energy, while hiring velocity is accelerating across engineering and manufacturing.
Luna Innovations is a public company headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, specializing in fiber-optic sensing, measurement, and control systems. The product portfolio spans strain and temperature sensing, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), test and measurement instruments, and fiber-optic components for high-performance applications. Core verticals include aerospace, defense, transportation, infrastructure monitoring, oil and gas, communications, and silicon photonics. The company operates with an engineering-forward model—manufacturing and operations teams support a primarily technical workforce focused on bringing specialized optical technologies to market.
Primary languages are Java, JavaScript, Python, C, and C/C++. Hardware design relies on SolidWorks and AutoCAD; signal processing uses MATLAB and LabVIEW. Version control is Git and Mercurial; embedded communication uses I2C, UART, and TCP/IP.
Current projects include distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems for subsurface monitoring, flow metering applications, infrastructure monitoring systems, and fiber-optic product development for defense, alternative energy, and oil/gas sectors.
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