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Intern (Optical Engineering Intern)

Nordson Corporation
USA, Minnesota, Minneapolis
Full-time

Collaboration drives Nordson's success as a market leader in Industrial Precision Solutions and Advanced Technology. Our employees thrive in an environment where we help each other reach our personal best and enable our company to continuously improve and grow, and our customers to succeed.

You will find Nordson employees sharing our success by giving back in the communities around the world where we live and work.

Job Summary

We are looking for an engineering student with optics focus to perform testing of optical lens assemblies and write scripts to automate testing on TriOptics and Shack Hartmann test equipment.

The candidate would also use their knowledge of optics to perform data analysis of test data and new designs created in Zemax.

Core Responsibilities

  • Test the performance of optical lens assemblies
  • Automate test data collection by writing scripts
  • Analyze the performance of lens assemblies
  • Create new optical designs in Zemax

Experience, Education, and Competencies Required

  • Pursuing a BS in Optical Engineering; or Physics / Engineering with an Optics focus
  • Completed optics-specific coursework or extensive experience with optics fundamentals
  • Exposure to Zemax or other Engineering ray-tracing software
  • Exposure to Matlab, Python, or other equivalent data analysis software

Experience, Education, and Competencies Preferred

  • Experience with Zemax or other Engineering ray-tracing software
  • Experience with Matlab, Python, or other equivalent data analysis software
  • Completed an optical design project or lab

Nordson Corporation provides equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees. No person is to be discriminated against in any aspect of the employment relationship due to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment drug screening and background / criminal check, consistent with applicable laws.

Third party recruiters and agencies should not contact employees of Nordson or its subsidiaries directly. Any resumes sent to a hiring manager or submitted to Nordson employees are considered unsolicited and property of Nordson.

Nordson will not pay a placement fee unless the agency or recruiter has a signed contract with Nordson's Human Resources department in advance of submitting a candidate for consideration.

Verbal and written approvals will not be considered a valid contract for service.

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