Laser Applications Specialist

6 days ago

Rochester, NY, United States Iris Scientific Inc. Full time
Position: Laser Applications Specialist

Location: Rochester NY

Total Compensation: 80-100k base salary

Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401K Match

Start Date: ASAP (generally within 2 months)

Contact:Andrew Millar; andrew.millar@irisscientific.com; 647-205-7151

Iris Scientific is a specialty recruitment agency laser focused on sales, marketing, and applications roles in the North American Scientific Instrumentation Industry. We are working with a world class scientific instrumentation manufacturer to find an Applications Specialist for Advanced LasersThe position is to be based out of Rochester, NY, and a relocation package will be provided if needed.

In this customer-facing role, you'll collaborate with sales, application scientists, and product management to design and run in-lab demonstrations of advanced laser systems - proving performance against real customer requirements and enabling successful evaluations and purchases.

The company is targeting new grads with a Bachelors or Masters in Physics, Optics, or Electrical Engineering. The candidate should have significant hands on lab experience with lasers, optics, and optomechanics, with applications knowledge in one (or more) of the following areas: semicon inspection, interferometry, holography, biophotonics, and/or microscopy. US Citizenship is required for this role.

This is an exciting and rewarding role for a recent grad who: loves designing and building optical setups, wants to turn bench skills into real customer impact, and is looking for a growth path into more senior customer facing positions

If this sounds like you - please get in touch.

About the Role:

The Application Specialist will provide in-the-lab demonstrations to ensure that the company's laser systems meet the requirements of customers' applications, particularly in target markets like interferometry, holography, and semiconductor inspection, or in biophotonics and microscopy.

These demonstrations typically serve specific customer enquiries, but they may be experiments with academic collaborators that demonstrate new capabilities of products. The Application Specialist will work with application scientists and with sales to determine customer requirements and will design and implement experiments to test those requirements in the company's Applications Lab or at the customer site.

Key Responsibilities:
  • The primary responsibility of the Applications Specialist is to ensure that laser demos for key customers are well planned and executed.
  • Communicate with company application scientists and sales, and with customers, to define requirements for successful laser demonstrations for specific customer enquiries. Design and build experiments to measure these requirements.
  • Communicate with company application scientists and academic collaborators to define requirements for new application demonstrations, and design and build experiments that measure to these requirements.
  • Write or contribute to application notes, whitepapers, and journal articles to deliver experimental results.
  • Visit potential customers and participate in trade shows and conferences in the Americas and reinforce the company's reputation for quality with product demonstrations and presentations.
  • Visit the manufacturing facility in Europe to become familiar with the entire product range
Key Requirements:
  • Master's degree in a relevant field such as Optics, Physics (especially optical physics), or Electrical Engineering.
  • Excellent hands-on laser and optics laboratory experience, preferably in fields of semiconductor inspection, interferometry, and holography, or in bio photonics and microscopy.
  • Strong ability to confidently communicate in-person and remotely.
  • Excellent presentation and writing skills.
  • Good time management, independent and self-starting.
  • Outstanding computer and project management skills.
  • Eager to grow within the role, develop and build on current skills.
  • Ability to travel up to 20% of the time throughout the US and Internationally
  • US Citizenship is required

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