Jobs at photonics companies: chip, hardware and process engineering roles
2,660 open roles at 145 photonics companies in 43 countries: Fab, process and manufacturing engineering (1,145), Equipment, test and field service (502), Product, program and leadership (298), Software, DevOps and IT (278). 2,455 of them are open to candidates of any nationality; the rest ask for citizenship or a government security check. 22 mention relocation support.
coherent.com · HQ: Saxonburg, United States · Semiconductor Manufacturing · Optical Communications · Optics & Photonic Components · Lasers & Laser Systems · 501-1000 employees · Est. 1971 · Trust B · Hiring 202, 15 new
HQ: Saxonburg, United States · Semiconductor Manufacturing · Optical Communications · Optics & Photonic Components · Lasers & Laser Systems · 501-1000 employees · Est. 1971 · Trust B · Hiring 202, 15 new
Coherent manufactures lasers, optical components and compound semiconductor materials. Its products serve optical networking, industrial processing, aerospace and consumer sensing markets. The company was formed by the combination of II-VI and the original Coherent business.
≈ $40k – $70k per year (Estimated) · Junior · In office (Saxonburg, United States) · High School Diploma · GMP / cleanroom · Shift work · Hazardous materials
idexcorp.com · HQ: Northbrook, United States · Safety & Protective Equipment · Industrial Machinery · Optics & Photonic Components · 201-500 employees · Est. 1988 · Trust A · Hiring 223, 24 new
HQ: Northbrook, United States · Safety & Protective Equipment · Industrial Machinery · Optics & Photonic Components · 201-500 employees · Est. 1988 · Trust A · Hiring 223, 24 new
IDEX Corporation is a diversified industrial manufacturer headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, making pumps, flow meters, optics, fluidics systems, fire and rescue equipment and other specialty engineered products. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it runs dozens of business units grouped into fluid and metering technologies, health and science technologies, and fire, safety and diversified products, with sites across North America, Europe and Asia. It hires quality engineers and technicians, CNC machinists, production associates, embedded software engineers, buyers, product managers, regional sales managers and accountants.
$43k – $64k per year · Middle · 2+ years exp · In office (New York, United States) · High School Diploma · Full-Time · Nationals only · GMP / cleanroom · Middle
lumentum.com · HQ: San Jose, United States · Optical Communications · Lasers & Laser Systems · Optics & Photonic Components · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2015 · Trust B · Hiring 196, 15 new
HQ: San Jose, United States · Optical Communications · Lasers & Laser Systems · Optics & Photonic Components · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2015 · Trust B · Hiring 196, 15 new
Lumentum is an American photonics company separated from JDS Uniphase in 2015 that makes the optical components carrying data through networks and between data centre systems. Its business has been transformed by artificial intelligence build-out: the optical transceivers and laser components that connect accelerators inside a cluster are now in far shorter supply than the networking equipment they plug into. Headquartered in San Jose and listed on Nasdaq, it also supplies industrial and consumer lasers, and it acquired Cloud Light in 2023 specifically to add high-speed transceiver manufacturing capacity for cloud customers.
resonetics.com · HQ: Nashua, United States · Contract Manufacturing · Lasers & Laser Systems · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1987 · Hiring 65, 9 new
HQ: Nashua, United States · Contract Manufacturing · Lasers & Laser Systems · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1987 · Hiring 65, 9 new
Resonetics is a medical device contract manufacturer headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, offering engineering, prototyping, product development and micro-manufacturing services to MedTech companies. Founded in 1987 with laser-based manufacturing as its first capability, it has grown rapidly since 2015 through acquisitions and now runs facilities in the US, Canada, Costa Rica, Israel, Switzerland and the Netherlands, covering laser processing, precision metal and nitinol components and delivery systems. It hires production operators and team leads, manufacturing, quality and automation engineers, CNC Swiss operators, maintenance technicians and engineering co-ops.
zeiss.com · HQ: Oberkochen, Germany · Surgical Instruments & Devices · Eyewear · Medical Imaging Systems · Semiconductor Equipment · Optics & Photonic Components · 5000+ employees · Est. 1846 · Trust B · Hiring 799, 64 new
HQ: Oberkochen, Germany · Surgical Instruments & Devices · Eyewear · Medical Imaging Systems · Semiconductor Equipment · Optics & Photonic Components · 5000+ employees · Est. 1846 · Trust B · Hiring 799, 64 new
Zeiss is a German optics and optoelectronics group founded in Jena in 1846 that is owned by a foundation rather than by shareholders, which frees it to invest on very long horizons. Its most strategically important business supplies the optical systems inside extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, without which leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing would not be possible, and it also makes surgical and diagnostic ophthalmic equipment, spectacle lenses, industrial measurement systems, microscopes and camera optics. Headquartered in Oberkochen with a large site in Jena, the group employs tens of thousands of people and spends an unusually high share of revenue on research.
novanta.com · HQ: Bedford, United States · Motors, Drives & Motion Control · Machine Vision & 3D Cameras · Lasers & Laser Systems · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1968 · NASDAQ: NOVT · Trust B · Hiring 116, 4 new
HQ: Bedford, United States · Motors, Drives & Motion Control · Machine Vision & 3D Cameras · Lasers & Laser Systems · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 1968 · NASDAQ: NOVT · Trust B · Hiring 116, 4 new
Novanta is an American supplier of photonics, vision and precision motion components and subsystems to original equipment manufacturers in the medical and advanced industrial markets. Its products include lasers and beam delivery systems, encoders, motion control, and medical imaging and visualization subsystems, sold through a family of specialised engineering brands, and it is listed on Nasdaq. The company is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States.
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