Job Board

As a service to our Industrial Associate members, the Institute of Optics posts IA job openings for Institute students and alumni. Industrial Associates may send job openings to Dustin Newman at dustin.newman@rochester.edu.

Please note: These postings are for Institute students and alumni. We cannot process or forward CV’s or résumés for individuals who are not part of the Institute of Optics community.

See the links below for more information about each job.

Aerospace Corporation opportunities:

• Open positions

AkknaTek opportunities:

• Student assistant/internship in optical design

Amazon opportunities:

• Senior Camera Algorithms Engineer
• Senior Camera/ISP Imaging Architect
• Display Mechanical Engineer
• Display Engineer
• Senior Display Architect
• Principal Optics Engineer
• Senior Manager, Optical Engineering

Apple opportunities:

• Open positions

ASML opportunities:

• Co-op, Wafer Alignment Sensor—Optics/Physics (Spring 2022)
• Intern, Wafer Alignment Sensor—Optics/Physics (Summer 2022)
• Guaranteed sign on bonus and relocation:
  • Optical Design Engineer
  • Functional Engineer
  • FLS Production Engineer—G2M & Mechanical Competency
  • FLS Production Engineer—Mechatronics and Test Competency
  • FLS Production Engineer—Optical Alignment and Metrology Competency

Corning opportunities:

• Development Scientist
• Research Scientist-Optical
• Scientist-Optical
• S&T Research Co-op for PhDs
• Optical Measurement Engineer

Danbury Mission Technologies opportunities:

• Open positions

Fellowship opportunities:

• Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellowship Program
• OSA / MRS Congressional Fellowship

Fluke opportunities:

• Open positions

L3Harris opportunities:

• Open positions

Laboratory for Laser Energetics opportunities:

• Open positions

MIT Lincoln Laboratory opportunities:

• Technical Staff - Engineering (mit.edu)

Meta (formerly Facebook) opportunities:

• Optical Scientist Intern

MKS Instruments opportunities:

• Internship opportunities (summer 2022):
  • For master’s and PhD students graduating in December 2022 or May 2023:
    • Digital Signal Processing
    • Power Transistor Device Physics
    • System Modeling
• Full-time opportunities:
  • Engineering Product Specialist
  • Laser Engineer
  • Optical Engineer
  • Optical Engineer
  • Principal Thin Film Engineer
  • Senior Principal Laser Engineer
  • All other open full-time roles are available on the MKS job search page
• Awards/grants:
  • MKS Instruments Research Excellence Awards—Winners are chosen from a pool of Student Author Travel Grant applicants for Photonics West and Optics + Photonics. To apply for an award a student would need to have an accepted paper in one of those two conferences and apply via the Student Author Travel Grant program

Navitar opportunities:

• Optical Engineer—Special Optics

Optikos opportunities:

• Optical Engineer

Raytheon Technologies opportunities:

• 2022 Summer Intern: Laser/Optics Engineering Internship (For undergraduates entering their senior year or BS grads entering graduate school)
• New College Graduate: Laser/Optical Engineer I (For 2022 BS degrees)
• New College Graduate: Optical/Laser Engineer II (For 2022 master’s degrees)

Scholarship opportunities:

• Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship
• SPIE Scholarship Program
• Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship in Optical Design
• Nick Cobb Memorial Scholarship
• Yaver Scholarship in partnership w/Mentor Graphics (grad student studying in a field related to advanced lithography)
• Student Author Travel Grants | SPIE Meetings

Sunny Optical opportunities:

• Technical Project Manager
• Technical Project Manager (Cell Phone Camera Lens)
• Fall 2021 openings (pdf)
  • 2022 summer internship
  • Optical Design Engineer
  • Optical Design Engineer (engineered optics/micro-nano optics)
  • Technical Support
  • Market Development
  • Process Engineer (engineered optics/micro-nano optics)
  • Mechanical Design Engineer
  • Optical Evaluation Engineer

Synopsys internship opportunities:

• Technical Intern – CODE V/LightTools Customer Success
• Optics/Photonics Software Intern
• Technical Intern – Optical Measurement

University of Rochester, Center for Visual Science:

• Optical Engineer, Advanced Technology for Ocular Imaging and Vision Science