Internship - Optical Engineering

Introduction to the role

ASML US, including its affiliates and subsidiaries, bring together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Arizona, San Jose and San Diego, California, Wilton, Connecticut, and Hillsboro, Oregon.

Job Mission

The Optical Engineering Intern shall assist with the design, testing, development, and troubleshooting of next-generation optical and opto-mechanical metrology sub-systems for the creation and control of EUV radiation.

The internships are expected to be 12 weeks in length and on-site at the San Diego campus for the summer of 2025.

Role and responsibilities

Using Optical engineering expertise the candidate is expected to perform work in some of these general area of Optical Engineering:

• Perform Optical design, optical tolerancing and modeling with CodeV and/or Zemax.

• Physical Optics Simulation (wave propagation, partial coherence calculation and other optical effects) in Matlab, FRED and CodeV or other suitable design tools.

• Perform Polarization optics error budgeting and polarization modeling.

• Building and aligning complex sensors using diverse mechanical, collimation and interferometry subsystems.

• Test stand design and build: concept, error budget, realization.

• Optical sensors Hardware build and debugging.

Education and experience

Looking for candidate that is currently pursuing a degree in optical engineering or closely related areas of engineering and physics. Preference for a candidate pursuing a Master or a Ph.D degrees. Undergraduate students with specific expertise in key areas of optical design and optical systems will be considered.

• Student must demonstrate some experience in some of these areas:

• Optical design and tolerancing using CodeV or equivalent SW package.

• Physical optics modeling with FRED or equivalent SW package.

• Optical sensors alignment experience using diverse alignment strategy and tools like optical collimators, mechanical gaging and interferometers.

• Optical sensor metrology test design and build.

• Expertise with diverse optical technologies and devices: polarization devices, relays, objectives, light sources, fibers, camera and detectors.

Skills

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.

To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.

• Can learn and apply new information or skills.

• Must be able to read and interpret data, information, and documents.

• Strong customer focus and commitment to customer satisfaction through prioritization, quality, efficiency and professionalism.

• Result driven-demonstrate ownership and accountability.

• Identifies bottlenecks and drives improvements.

• Demonstrate open, clear, concise and professional communication.

Other Information

This position is located on-site in San Diego California. It requires onsite presence to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings and to further ensure teamwork, collaboration and innovation.

Must be willing to work in a clean room environment, wearing coveralls, hoods, booties, safety glasses and gloves for entire duration of shift.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch.

The current base annual hourly range for this role is currently $18.00 - $48.00. Pay scales are determined by role, level, location and alignment with market data. Individual pay is determined through interviews an