Employment Opportunities
Photonics Industries International, Inc. is a manufacturer of industrial lasers and is the pioneer of intracavity harmonic lasers. We are at the forefront of design, development, and manufacturing of diode-pumped solid-state lasers with pulse widths in the ranges of nanosecond, sub-nanosecond, picosecond, and femtosecond.
Begin your career with Photonics Industries, a continually innovating photonics engineering, laser manufacturing company. You will not only have the opportunity to work closely with lasers, their development, design, and manufacture; but also have the opportunity to develop your knowledge further and gain real-world experience in applied physics and engineering, manufacturing and production processes, optics, and photonics. Join us and make your contribution to the ever-evolving needs and applications of the photonics industry.
Photonics Industries has the following available job opportunities:
Senior Laser Engineer
- Responsibilities
- Formulate and test concepts, model, design, and develop prototypes, and execute extensive stability and reliability testing to produce manufacturable lasers according to rapidly changing customer specifications.
- Provide progress updates and maintain timelines for multiple projects.
- Work with the production team to ameliorate build process issues such as yield and consistency.
- Work with service teams to troubleshoot and provide failure analysis, and incorporate customer feedback into design improvements.
- Intermittent travel requirements to provide on-site customer support if needed.
- Requirements
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Engineering Physics, Photonics, Optics, or another related scientific/technical discipline.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with design, assembly, alignment, and troubleshooting of lasers and complicated optical setups in a production environment. Other types of experience, such as that involving laser operation, optical setups, and applied physics, are considered.
- Qualifications
- Knowledge of DPSS and/or fiber laser technologies, laser and optical design and modeling, optical components and materials from UV to IR, optical metrology and measurement equipment, and laser systems.
- Familiarity with diffraction gratings, polarization optics, free-space beam propagation and shaping using reflective and refractive elements, acousto-optics, electro-optics, and general laser principles.
- Excellent understanding of the interplay of structural, optical, and thermal design features on system performance.
- Ability to do comprehensive in-lab hands-on experimentation and data analysis.
- Experience with ultrafast laser diagnostic equipment.
- Experience with industry software, including Zemax.
- Experience with ultrafast laser diagnostic equipment.
- Extra Qualifications
- Experience with the modeling and design of high-power fiber laser systems, and validation of models through comprehensive experimentation and data analysis.
Laser Engineer I
- Responsibilities
- Evaluate laser build yield and product stability.
- Characterize builds on new products.
- Help transition new lasers to production.
- Work closely with class IV lasers in a clean room lab environment wearing a lab coat, clean room shoes, gloves, and a hair net. Safety precautions are to be observed at all times when in the clean room lab environment, especially laser protective eyewear, to protect against eye-exposure from diffuse or reflected laser light.
- Assist laser technicians with questions or problems that they run into during their build process.
- Document and investigate the cause of any failures in the products. Assist to find solutions, test their effectiveness, and implement into existing builds.
- Assist in proposing and modifying production build documentation.
- Actively track in-house and field failure mechanisms to assure problems are addressed and solved.
- Identify problems within manufacturing that decrease component yield and consistency.
- Test failure modes in lasers to reproduce field problems and address them with corrective solutions.
- Intermittent travel requirements to provide on-site customer support if needed.
- Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, Applied Physics, Optics/Optical Science, Optical Engineering, Photonic Science and Engineering, or another related scientific/technical discipline.
- Basic knowledge and understanding of general physics and optics.
- Ability to follow directions and work within a group.
- Manual dexterity, and good hand/eye coordination, with the ability to handle small, fragile, and costly components.
- Extra Qualifications
- Basic knowledge and understanding of general photonics, i.e. lasers, semiconductor photon sources/laser diodes, beam optics, resonator optics, laser amplification, ultrafast optics, guided-wave optics, acousto-optics, electro-optics, nonlinear optics, etc.
Fiber Laser Engineer
- Responsibilities
- We are looking for a Fiber Laser Engineer to join our Research and Development Department. The ideal candidate will contribute to the optical design of ultrafast fiber-based laser systems.
- Model and design high power fiber laser system, and validate models through comprehensive experimentation and data analysis.
- Requirements
- 3+ years hands-on experience building fs-fiber laser systems in a production environment
- Knowledge of fiber laser technology, laser and optical design and modeling, optical components and materials from UV to IR, and optical metrology and measurement equipment
- Familiarity with diffraction gratings, polarization optics, reflective optics, beam telescoping, and general laser principles
- Experience with ultrafast laser diagnostic equipment
- Experience with assembly, alignment, and troubleshooting of lasers and complicated optical setups
- Excellent understanding of the interplay of structural, optical, and thermal design features on system performance
Laser Technician
- Responsibilities
- Attend and complete in-house Photonics Industries Laser Technician Training Program.
- Work within your production group to build lasers from start to finish.
- Align optics, crystals, and mirrors within laser systems.
- Work with chillers, where applicable, in building a laser system.
- Test lasers using laboratory equipment.
- Document all required data during the build process and after completion.
- Update specified spreadsheets to compile data and maintain up-to-date procedures.
- Troubleshoot and diagnose laser system issues.
- Adhere to assembly procedures and safety guidelines at all times.
- Building and working closely with class IV lasers in a clean room lab environment (dependent upon production group assignment) wearing a lab coat, clean room shoes, gloves, and a hair net. Safety precautions are to be observed at all times when in the clean room lab environment, especially laser protective eyewear, to protect against eye-exposure from diffuse or reflected laser light.
- Work closely with laser engineers, especially when questions or problems arise during the build process.
- Requirements
- Associate Degree or Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific/technical discipline.
- Ability to follow directions and work within a group.
- Manual dexterity, and good hand/eye coordination, with the ability to handle small, fragile, and costly components.
- Extra Qualifications
- Experience working in a production and manufacturing environment.
- Experience working in a clean room lab environment.
To be considered for a position please complete the form above or email your cover letter and resume to Tina Yin.