Laser Product Engineer – NPI & Innovation

Jobvite, Inc.; Camas (WA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid Time Off

10 paid Holidays

Dental and Vision benefits

Tuition Assistance Program

Pet Insurance

Job summary

nLIGHT in Camas, WA seeks a product/ systems engineer to drive the full life cycle of high-power laser systems. You will contribute to system architecture, performance metrics, costs, schedules, and troubleshooting across development and manufacturing teams.

The role requires a systematic problem-solving approach, strong engineering fundamentals, and the ability to work on innovative projects advancing directed energy lasers for defense and industrial applications.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years of corporate experience required.
• BS Physics, Systems Engineering, Optical Engineering or similar discipline.
• Excellent communication, listening and collaboration skills.
• A passion for learning new things with the ability to absorb and assimilate information rapidly.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to solve/break down complex problems.
• The ability to coordinate across organizational boundaries.
• Highly organized with the ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Program/Project Management competency helpful.
• Defense experience useful.

Responsibilities

• Conduct system testing to validate product performance and reliability
• Troubleshoot and resolve questions and issues both in person, and on the manufacturing floor as well as remotely with customers
• Support Sales and Management to understand customer applications, product use, and generate sales collateral (i.e. Interface Control Documents, use instructions)
• Seek improvements in reliability based on failure analysis of external RMAs and internal NCMs by establishing root cause and recommending appropriate corrective and preventative action plans
• Aggregate and review production data (yield to specifications, cycle times, labor hours, BOM costs) to facilitate improvement plans
• Present opportunities to improve product and business efficiency/accuracy/quality with new tools/systems/processes
• Collaborate with development and manufacturing engineering teams to set schedules, create process instruction, and refine BOM accuracy
• Estimate project costs with work breakdowns as well as establish initial product costs through detailed yielded engineering BOMs
• Contribute to nLIGHT’s NPI (New Product Introduction) process for new product releases

Skills

Excellent communication

Collaboration

Strong computer skills

Optical design experience

Laser design experience

Mechanical design experience

Electrical design experience

Program/Project management

Defense experience

Education

BS in Physics/Engineering

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

SQL

VB

Python

MS Dynamics D365

PDM

Job description

nLIGHT in Camas, WA seeks a product/ systems engineer to drive the full life cycle of high-power laser systems. You will contribute to system architecture, performance metrics, costs, schedules, and troubleshooting across development and manufacturing teams.

The role requires a systematic problem-solving approach, strong engineering fundamentals, and the ability to work on innovative projects advancing directed energy lasers for defense and industrial applications.