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:
AkknaTek opportunities:
Amazon opportunities:
- TBA
Apple opportunities:
ASML opportunities:
Corning opportunities:
Danbury Mission Technologies opportunities:
DRS Daylight Solutions opportunities:
Elbit Systems of America opportunities:
Fellowship opportunities:
Fluke opportunities:
Jenoptik North America, Inc. opportunities:
KLA opportunities:
L3Harris opportunities:
Laboratory for Laser Energetics opportunities:
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:
Meta (formerly Facebook) opportunities:
- TBA
Metalenz opportunities:
MKS Instruments opportunities:
- Master’s and PhD internship opportunities (summer 2023):
- Undergraduate internship opportunities (2023):
- 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:
Northrop Grumman opportunities:
Optikos opportunities:
Plymouth Grating Laboratory, Inc. opportunities:
Raytheon Technologies opportunities:
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:
Synopsys internship opportunities:
Zemax opportunities: