Industrial Associates Program

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 members can send job openings to Dustin Newman at dustin.newman@rochester.edu.

In addition to posting job and internship opportunities, members are also welcome to post any scholarship or fellowship opportunities that they sponsor.

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.

Job and Internship Opportunities

Alcon

• Principal Optical Engineer - Lens Design

Amazon opportunities:

• Amazon open positions

Aperture Optical Sciences

• Senior Optical Manufacturing Engineer
• Optical Engineer

Apple opportunities:

• Apple open positions

Arizona Optical Metrology opportunities:

• Current openings

DRS Daylight Solutions opportunities:

• Senior Technical Intern - Optical

Elbit Systems of America opportunities:

• Electro-Optics Engineer

Fibertek opportunities:

• Senior Optical Communications Engineer
• Senior Laser Systems Engineer

Full list of Fibertek opportunities >

Hamamatsu opportunities:

• Job board

KLA opportunities:

• Optical Engineering Intern
• Opto-Mechanical Intern
• Product Development Engineer Intern
• Product Development Engineer Intern
• Sr. Staff Optical Engineer (Optical Image, High Precision Lens, Code V)
• Staff Optical Research Scientist
• Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer
• Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer (Precision mechanism)
• Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer (Mechanical camera development technical lead)
• Senior Systems Engineer (Optical Systems)
• Sr. Optical Systems Design Engineer
• Sr. Optical Design Engineer - Electron Detector
• Electron Optics Engineer - Source

L3Harris opportunities:

• L3Harris open positions

Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) opportunities:

• LLE open positions

Lockheed Martin opportunities:

• Lockheed Martin open positions

MIT Lincoln Laboratory opportunities:

• Associate Staff
• Optical Engineer (Technical Staff)
• Quantum Optics Engineer (Technical Staff)
• EO/IR Scientist (Technical Staff)
• Electro-Optical Project Technician
• SRP Intern - Optical Engineer

MKS Instruments opportunities:

• MKS open positions

NanoVox opportunities:

• Optical Metrology Senior Staff Scientist
• Senior Optical System Engineer / Project Engineer (GRIN Optics)

Navitar opportunities:

• Navitar open positions

Northrop Grumman Corporation opportunities:

• Interns
• Entry level

Optikos opportunities:

• Optical Engineer

Optimax opportunities:

• 2026 Summer Internship

QED Technologies opportunities:

• Documentation Specialist-Intern
• Mechanical Engineering Intern
• Mechanical Design Engineer

Sunny Optical opportunities:

• Sunny Optical open positions
• General information for oversea students
  
• Technical Program Engineer
• Internship

Xcimer Energy opportunities:

• Spring Semester 2026 Internship - Optical Engineering
• Summer 2026 Internship - Optical Engineering
• Laser Engineer

Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities

Fellowship opportunities:

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

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