Laser Engineer I

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.