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
Amazon opportunities:
Aperture Optical Sciences
Apple opportunities:
Arizona Optical Metrology opportunities:
- Current openings
- Optical Systems Engineer | AOM - Arizona Optical Metrology
- Optical Engineer | AOM - Arizona Optical Metrology
Corning opportunities:
- Optical Metrology Intern - Summer 2026
- Optical Thin Film Design Intern - Summer 2026
- Senior Engineer, Measurements
- Senior Engineer, Measurements
- Staff Engineer, Machine Vision
- Supervisor, Optical Metrology
Elbit Systems of America opportunities:
Hamamatsu opportunities:
L3Harris opportunities:
Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) opportunities:
Lockheed Martin opportunities:
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:
NanoVox opportunities:
- Optical Metrology Senior Staff Scientist
- Senior Optical System Engineer / Project Engineer (GRIN Optics)
Navitar opportunities:
Northrop Grumman Corporation opportunities:
Optimax opportunities:
Sunny Optical opportunities:
- Sunny Optical open positions
- General information for oversea students
- Technical Program Engineer
- Internship
Viavi opportunities:
Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities
Fellowship 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