* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Please follow these instructions before clicking through to apply:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Send a cover letter to including the following:
- An introduction about your background and passions
- Why you chose your career path and your long-term vision
- How your career and interests align with this position at Turner Laser Systems ((Please review our website and LinkedIn page to learn about what we do.)
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
ABOUT THE POSITION:
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Turner Laser Systems is looking for a Laser Applications Engineer to join the team as a full-time position at our headquarters in Fremont, CA. We are looking for a highly talented laser processing expert who can take on some of the world's most challenging laser process development projects in a small-business environment. We utilize cutting-edge lasers, optical systems, vision, sensors, motion and software to bring laser applications from the lab to state-of-the-art automation tools for our Fortune 500 and startup company customers. We are a work culture that truly believes in living out and practicing our values. Everyone including the CEO work closely together. We believe in work-life balance, investing in people, work excellence, continuous growth, and open feedback. You will get to work with a small and impactful team of great people who really care about their work and each other.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute on laser process development experiments for customer applications and present the results to management and customers.
- Laser setup, alignment and characterization as well as documentation therein.
- Support team effort to improve laser equipment in laser laboratory.
- Maintain cleanliness, organization and efficiency of laser laboratory.
- Provide knowledge transfer to the machine design team based on lab experiments.
- Support the design, build, setup, and verification testing of laser systems during customer laser tool development.
- Support sales and marketing teams with technical expertise.
- Participate in internal training and improving on technical and management skills.
- Support of customer tools, including both remote and onsite service and support.
Qualifications
- PhD or Masters in laser materials processing OR Bachelor degree in science/engineering with additional 3+ years industry experience in laser materials process
- Ability to create and manage experiments, following good scientific procedures
- Very strong fundamental understanding of laser-materials interactions and laser processing foundations
- Must be very fluent in setting up and aligning lasers
- Problem solving mindset with the ability to break down large projects into a series of tests and experiments
- Ability to troubleshoot issues with hardware and software integration
- Very strong ability to present technical data into simple, clear and presentable formats for both internal reports and customer reports/presentations
- Passion to learn new technology and applications
- Personal drive to work in an extremely creative, fast paced and start-up environment
- Proactive and able to drive small technical projects.