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Laser Development Scientist
$75,000-$95,000, NY State

About Rudzinsky Associate’s (RA’s) client

RA’s client is a privately held, technology driven visionary company, which develops and sells diode and ultrafast fiber lasers for scientific and industrial applications. The company sets its own annual challenge to continually present exciting product innovations and world firsts.

Since 1995, our client’s lasers and laser-related measurement equipment have been dedicated to serving the forefront of atomic physics, metrology, quantum computing, microscopy, printing, optical disc manufacturing and many other applications. Whenever lasers need to be matched with the latest scientific challenge, our client’s lasers are the key to success. Whenever wavelengths are to be determined with an absolute precision of better than 10^-7, beam wavefronts are given in mλ, or random pulse sequences and lengths are required in ns or even fs scale, our client’s lasers are involved.

Why should you be interested? Strong contacts to the scientific community and a profound understanding of their needs motivate our client to push the development always one step further and that results in world-renowned diode and fiber lasers with cutting edge clean pulse technology. We are looking for scientific experts who understand this technology and its potential for customers by matching the technology with their application requirements.

Our client is looking for people who share the same “Passion for Precision” that keeps our client excited and has resulted in over 20 years of commercial success in the scientific and industrial environment.

• The Position:

  The Laser Development Scientist will be responsible for a wide range of responsibilities related to existing and future product lines developed and manufactured by our client’s United States production team. Please note that this position requires 5 days/week on site at our client’s US headquarters in western NY state.

  Key job responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the design and specification of products from research and development stage to engineering plan stage to product manufacturability
  • Ensure that the product conforms to our client’s high standard of performance, quality, and reliability
  • Build and characterize early prototypes
  • Specify and outfit dedicated manufacturing space with all necessary workstations, fixturing, and instrumentation for successful creation
  • Work in collaboration with product service team to provide post- delivery support to customers in need
  • Periodic travel to our client’s headquarters in Germany as well as to worldwide offices and distributors
  • Other duties as assigned

Education and qualifications:

• Master’s degree in physics, Optics, or other relevant scientific discipline; Ph.D. preferred
• Significant, demonstrable experience and skill in hands-on work with lasers and optical techniques
• Preferred experience with optical parametric oscillators and/or integrated photonics
• Preferred skills in electronics and/or software for controls and analysis
• Demonstrated project management skill
• Written and verbal communication skills for reporting and presenting results
• Excellent interpersonal skills as well as an outgoing personality and a desire to interact with people
• Unrestricted right to work in the United States

Affirmative Action/EEO statement

Our client is a global, equal opportunity employer that supports diversity in the workplace. They offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive total benefits package.