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:

• TBA

Apple opportunities:

• Open positions

ASML opportunities:

• Optical Production First Line Support Engineer (3rd shift)

Corning opportunities:

• Development Scientist
• Research Scientist-Optical
• Scientist-Optical

Danbury Mission Technologies opportunities:

• Open positions

DRS Daylight Solutions opportunities:

• Optical Engineer II
• Optical Mechanical Engineer II

Elbit Systems of America opportunities:

• Electro-Optics Engineer
• Optical Engineering Summer Intern

Fellowship opportunities:

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

Fluke opportunities:

• Open positions

Jenoptik North America, Inc. opportunities:

• Laser Engineer II
• Metrology Engineer
• Optical Manufacturing Engineer
• Systems Engineer, Optical

KLA opportunities:

• Lead Optical Engineer (Lens Design)

L3Harris opportunities:

• Open positions

Laboratory for Laser Energetics opportunities:

• Open positions

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) opportunities:

• Laser and Experimental Systems Engineering Undergraduate Internship - Summer 2023
• Laser and Experimental Systems Engineering Graduate Internship - Summer 2023
• National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Undergraduate Student Intern - Summer 2023
• National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Graduate Student Intern - Summer 2023
• High Energy Density Science Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Postdoctoral Researcher - Laser Scientist
• Photonics - Postdoctoral Researcher
• Laser Postdoctoral Researcher, APT
• HED Physics - Postdoctoral Experimental Physicist
• Laser Engineer
• RF / Photonics Engineer
• Optical/Laser Engineer
• Optical Science Laser Experimentalist
• Process Engineer for NIF Alignment
• Optical Engineer
• Laser Diode Project Engineer
• Laser Characterization Engineer
• Laser Performance Engineer
• Semiconductor Laser Device Engineer
• Pulsed Power Engineer
• Senior Optical Metrology Engineer
• Sr. Mechanical Engineer
• Laser Physicist, Advanced Photon Technologies

Lockheed Martin opportunities:

• TBA

MIT Lincoln Laboratory opportunities:

• Summer Intern Specialist
• Summer Intern Engineer
• Associate Staff
• Technical Staff

Meta (formerly Facebook) opportunities:

• TBA

Metalenz opportunities:

• Senior Quality and Reliability Manager
• Optical Applications Engineer

MKS Instruments opportunities:

• Master’s and PhD internship opportunities (summer 2023):
  • Graduate Intern—Inside Sales Engineer
  • Graduate Intern—Optical Engineer
• Undergraduate internship opportunities (2023):
  • Spring Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering Intern/Co-op
  • Summer Photonics Supply Chain Specialist Intern/Co-op
  • Summer Manufacturing Engineer Intern/Co-op
• Full-time opportunities:
  • Principal Field Customer Service Engineer
  • Senior Inside Sales Engineer - Motion Control and Photonics
  • Laser Engineer-Test Systems Development
  • Manufacturing Engineer
  • Optical 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:

• TBA

Northrop Grumman opportunities:

• Sr Principal Engineer Optical
• Principal Optical Engineer

Optikos opportunities:

• Optical Engineer

Plymouth Grating Laboratory, Inc. opportunities:

• Applications Engineer

Raytheon Technologies opportunities:

• 2023 High Energy Laser - Research Engineer II

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

Synopsys internship opportunities:

• TBA

Zemax opportunities:

• Summer 2023 Intern - Zemax (optics, MS/PhD)
• Summer 2023 Intern - Lumerical (MS/PhD)