Laser Engineer

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. (<5%)

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.

Basic knowledge and understanding of general photonics, ie lasers, semiconductor photon sources/laser diodes, beam optics, resonator optics, laser amplification, ultrafast optics, guided-wave optics, acousto-optics, electro-optics, nonlinear optics, etc.

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