Electrical Engineer Intern - Optical Systems Development

Job Description

For the past 50 years, Beckman Coulter has been in the leading position in providing both the cell analyzers and sorters with detection capability spanning from cells, particles to nano level extracellular vehicles by offering the cutting-edge hardware solution, customer workflow-oriented software as well as comprehensive reagents / assays, which empowers both the advanced scientific research and clinical diagnostics in immunology, cancer research, immune-oncology, drug discovery as well as vaccine development. 

We are looking for an intern optics engineer for the flow business unit to contribute to the research and development of generation II platform, the responsibilities of this position will range from idealization, proof-of-concept through feasibility study to the building of engineering prototype ,and this role also requests the collaboration with different functions / sites to gain deep inside into the customers’ user scenarios and break them down into user needs / design inputs as well as the module level requirements and work together with the global teams to do the realization.

Responsibilities:

• Optical excitation and detection module design and develop.
• Lead / participate from system specs decomposition to optical simulation on beam propagation, light collect efficiency analysis, tolerance stacking analysis and prototype building for concept proof together with other subject matter experts.
• Key optical components selection and qualification.
• Perform the module / system level characterization testing to figure out the optimal configuration for the system design.

Working together other professionals e.g., EE, ME and fluidics to ensure the system integration and compatibility with other modules / sub-system. 

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate or master’s degree (graduated or currently pursuing) in optics or being with equivalent practical experience.
• With experience in one or more projects related to  lasers / laser engine development, weak signal collection and detection, fluorescence imaging…etc.
• Capable of designing of the experiment (DOE) and conduct it, experimental data collection and analysis.

Development Tools:

• Zemax / Optics Studio
• SolidWorks

The hourly range for this role is $30.00. This is the rate that we in good faith believe is the rate of compensation for this role at the time of this posting.

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