Xcimer Energy
Summer 2027 Internship - Experimental Lasers (Undergraduate)
- Compensation
- $25–$35 / hr
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Level
- Intern
- Posted
- 12 November 2026 (2 days ago)
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About this role
Responsibilities • Assemble, align, and operate pulsed laser setups and optical beamlines alongside an Experimental Lasers mentor.
• Build and calibrate diagnostics for pulse energy, duration, spectrum, and beam profile, and reduce the raw data to results.
• Compare measurements against first-order models from textbooks and the published literature.
• Help plan and run experiments on a team project, keeping clear records of setups, data, and findings.
• Present your results to the team and at a company-wide Lunch and Learn at the end of the summer.
Qualifications • Education: Pursuing a BS in physics, optics, electrical engineering, or a related field, with at least sophomore year completed by summer 2027.
• Experience: Hands-on lab work through an upper-division lab course, a research group, senior design, or an independent build project.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Available to work full-time onsite in Denver for all 12 weeks.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Desired • Familiarity with pulsed lasers or harmonic frequency conversion.
• Exposure to pulse diagnostics such as energy meters, photodiodes, spectrometers, or beam profilers, and to analyzing the data in Python, MATLAB, or similar.
• Background working around vacuum systems, high voltage, or Class 4 lasers under a safety program.
• Skilled at optical alignment from a lab course, research group, or personal project.
Work location
- Denver, CO, US
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Published 12 November 2026, last checked 2 days ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.