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:

• Opto-Mechanical Engineer I
• Opto-Mechanical Engineer II
• Senior Opto-Mechanical Engineer
• Optical Engineer II

Edwards Air Force Base:

• Electro-optical Systems Flight Test Engineer

Elbit Systems of America opportunities:

• Electro-Optics Engineer
• Optical Engineering Summer Intern

Fellowship opportunities:

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

Fibertek opportunities:

• Fiber Laser Scientist
• Senior Optical Communications Engineer
• Senior Laser Systems Engineer
• Technical Program Manager

Full list of Fibertek opportunities >

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)

What it’s like working as an Optical Engineer - YouTube

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 - Optical Engineer
• Summer Intern - Optical Specialist
• Optical Engineer (Group 66)
• Associate Staff
• Technical Staff

Meta (formerly Facebook) opportunities:

• TBA

Metalenz opportunities:

• Senior Optical Design Engineer
• Senior Optical Metrology Engineer
• Senior Quality and Reliability Manager
• Optical Applications Engineer

MKS Instruments opportunities:

Undergraduate internship/co-op opportunities (2024):

• 2024 Spring Undergraduate Intern/Co-op – Electrical Engineer
• 2024 Summer Undergraduate Intern/Co-op – Technical Marketing Engineering
• 2024 Summer Undergraduate Intern/Co-op – Mechanical or Optical Engineering

Full-time opportunities:

• Principal Test Engineer
• Manufacturing Engineering Manager
• Principal Test Engineer
• Principal Scientist
• All other open full-time roles are available on the MKS job search page

Navitar opportunities:

• TBA

Northrop Grumman opportunities:

• 2024 Intern, Optical Engineer (Redondo Beach, CA)
• 2024 Associate Optical Engineer/Optical Engineer (Redondo Beach, CA)
• Sr Principal Engineer Optical (Redondo Beach, CA)
• Staff Engineer Optical (Redondo Beach, CA)
  

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:

• Open positions
• General information for oversea students

Synopsys internship opportunities:

• TBA

Zemax opportunities:

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