Laser Applications Engineer at Turner Laser Systems in Fremont, California

Job Description:

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Send a cover letter to careers@turnerlasersystems.com 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.)

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ABOUT THE POSITION:

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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.

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