Intern, Laser Application Engineer

Job description

Job Summary We are seeking a highly motivated, hands on, fast learning contributor to join our Laser Applications team for Summer of 2026. In this role you will gain hand-on experience in the use of lasers for materials processing applications, learn where and how lasers enable a wide range of products and functions you use every day and interact with industry professionals and real-world end user customers who implement lasers in a wide range of manufacturing applications. Primary Duties & Responsibilities: - Investigation of laser-material interactions to understand and develop process parameters to achieve various types of laser-based manufacturing - Setting up laser materials processing stations or changing and re-aligning optics in existing stations - Programming motion stages and laser scanners as well as laser output parameters to set up applications trials - Design of Experiment to explore complex multi-variable processing parameter spaces - Analysis of results by microscopy, mechanical and electrical testing - Documenting experiments completed and organizing learnings to present to a broader team - Interactions with customers and coworkers to discuss application results Ed...