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.