Optical Engineer Intern

Lumentum

2d • $28 - $54

About The Position

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! Lumentum is powering the networks of tomorrow with advanced photonic technologies that enable AI, data centers, telecom, industrial, and sensing applications. As AI accelerates the global demand for bandwidth and energy efficiency, we deliver the building blocks that keep data moving reliably, efficiently, and at massive scale. Our optical products support AI and compute infrastructure, cloud and DCI environments, metro and long-haul networks, while our lasers drive breakthroughs in precision manufacturing and sensing. Headquartered in San Jose, California, we operate worldwide through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer.

Requirements

• Qualified candidates will be enrolled in a PhD or Master’s degree program in semiconductor, electrical, optical, physical engineering or a related major.
• Strong foundation in physics (e.g. lasers), optical sciences (e.g. coherence, speckle, diffraction, imaging) and/or electrical engineering (e.g. electricity & magnetism)

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience or equivalent skill level in optical component/system design for photonic and/or fiber-coupled systems and spectral/performance characterization of laser devices in Telecom and/or other applications
• Strong analytic and data analysis/mining skills via Excel, Minitab and/or JMP
• Familiarity in LabView is desirable, but not required
• Experienced in development and implementation of test setups for R&D environment
• Communicates/contributes effectively in cross-functional teams (esp. with manufacturing)
• Experience in DOE, SPC, DFX, GR&R and GR-468-CORE qualification
• MS degree or above preferred in semiconductor, electrical, optical or physical engineering

Responsibilities

• Design and simulation of optical components (e.g. lenses, diffusers, diffractive/holographic optical elements, lensed fiber, etc.) and opto-mechanical systems for beam-conditioning of free-space and fiber-coupled semiconductor lasers
• Design Verification Testing (DVT), characterization of high-power single & multi-mode laser diodes for telecom, industrial, and consumer markets (e.g., spectral locking, noise, coherence collapse, Stimulated Brillion Scattering, fiber/volume Bragg gratings, high-speed characterization, the field of view)
• Cost-effective tolerancing of low-cost, manufacturable optical components for high-volume consumer applications
• Define performance specification limits for high-power single-mode and multi-mode laser diodes (e.g., LIV, WPE, spectral)
• Work with electrical/mechanical engineering and assembly/packaging staff on the design, development, and packaging of photonic optical systems
• Support development implementation of test equipment in R&D environment needed to perform DVT characterization tests, including software/hardware integration
• Document and present characterization results

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern