Production Test Engineer – High-Speed Mixed-Signal ICs
Retym, Inc
Laser Engineer
Xcimer Energy Corporation
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Denver • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $140,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Design, modify, operate, and maintain advanced pulsed laser systems
- Enhance laser beam quality by specifying, sourcing, and installing optical components and hardware
- Select optical components based on laser damage thresholds, transmission, and beam quality requirements; collaborate with vendors to refine specifications and procure these optics
- Develop clear procedures and documentation for technicians; provide training on complex laser systems for basic maintenance and alignment
- Plan, execute, and oversee spectroscopic experiments, ensuring accurate data collection and thorough analysis
- Calibrate laser characterization devices and ensure experimental data is acquired accurately and free of artifacts
- Maintain laser systems, including realignment, diagnosing issues, and coordinating with vendors to resolve component malfunctions and quickly bring systems back online
- Assist optics engineers with aligning complex laser beam paths and write requirements for high-energy laser diagnostics
- Collaborate closely with experimentalists, theorists, optics engineers, and controls engineers to ensure system reliability and support experimental needs
Requirements
- BS with 3-5 years of experience, MS with 1-2 years of related lab experience, PhD desired
- Advanced knowledge in solid state and gas pulsed lasers and characterization of laser pulses
- Ability to own and maintain complex laser systems
- Experience in specifying, budgeting, purchasing, installing, and operating laser systems, detectors, optics, spectrometers, and other scientific research equipment
- Experience in nonlinear frequency conversion processes
- Independent troubleshooting and solving non-trivial technical issues
- Planning, managing, and executing laser-based experiments
- Experience working with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists
- Highly self-motivated, with the ability to work independently without guidance
- Advanced verbal and written communication skills
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee of granted asylum
- Desired: PhD in electrical engineering, chemistry, physics, or related fields
- Desired: Expertise in optical spectroscopy, gas kinetics, and data processing
- Desired: Experience in laser gain dynamics, electro-optical devices, pulse shaping, spectral shaping
- Desired: Hands-on experience aligning Ti:Sapphire laser systems and familiarity with fiber optics
- Desired: Experience with high-damage-threshold optics, phase mask or free-form optic manufacturing and alignment
- Desired: Experience with ns and fs pulse diagnostics and characterization (spectral and temporal)
- Desired: Experience with vacuum systems
- Desired: Experience leading teams of optical, laser, and controls engineers
- Desired: Experience building laser beamlines and working in multidisciplinary research laser facilities
- Desired: Experience in writing scientific papers
- Desired: Experience in Matlab, Python, and LabVIEW
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave (must be employed at time of birth or adoption)
- Short and long-term disability
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 6%
- Paid Time Off: 15 days per year based on weekly scheduled hours
- 10 paid sick leave
- 13 company-paid holidays
- Equity will be granted to eligible employees
ATS Keywords
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Hard skills
pulsed laser systemsoptical componentslaser damage thresholdsspectroscopic experimentslaser characterizationnonlinear frequency conversionlaser-based experimentsoptical spectroscopylaser gain dynamicsns and fs pulse diagnostics
Soft skills
independent troubleshootingplanningmanagingexecuting experimentshighly self-motivatedverbal communicationwritten communicationcollaborationteam leadershipproblem-solving
