Summer 2027 Internship - Experimental Lasers (Graduate)
- Countries
- USA
- Job Types
- early-career & research, operations
- Experience
- entry
- Organization Types
- climate & sustainability, startups
- Location
- Denver
- Posted Date
- Company
- Xcimer Energy
- Salary
- USD25 - USD35 hour
AI Summary
Job Description
Own a scoped experiment on pulsed laser systems and diagnostics supporting excimer laser development over a 12-week internship: define success criteria, write and execute test plans, build first-order physics models, assemble and align beamlines, design and calibrate diagnostics, quantify measurement uncertainty, and present and document results.
Hard Requirements
- Enrolled in or admitted to an MS or PhD program in physics, optics, electrical engineering, or related field
- Hands-on research or thesis experience with lasers or optical systems
- Clear written and verbal communication including presenting technical results
- Available full-time onsite in Denver for 12 weeks
- U.S. citizen/national, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee status
Soft Requirements
- Hands-on experience operating pulsed lasers or nonlinear frequency conversion
- Experience calibrating energy, temporal, spectral, or beam-profile diagnostics and analyzing data in Python or MATLAB
- Skill working safely with vacuum systems, high voltage, or Class 4 lasers
- Track record of independently planning and running experiments from alignment through data analysis