Summer Internship for High School Student

PHI Lab

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Posted on 20 May, 2025


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Builders and Engineers for Photonics Testing Equipment We are looking for summer interns who would be interested in tinkering around with robots that shoot lasers into tiny optical circuits, also known as integrated photonics. We want students who would be interested in working with our team of scientists to program these systems to quickly and repeatably align optical components.

This project is fairly open-ended; there are many tried-and-true approaches, as well as many experimental ones, and students will have an opportunity to learn about common best practices, cad up and assemble new systems, and explore new approaches. Depending on the needs of the project/team, there may be many variants/extensions, such as building setups with precise temperature control, objective lenses (as opposed to fibers), and the addition of electronic probes alongside the optical probes.

This project is fairly open-ended; there are many tried-and-true approaches, as well as many experimental ones, and students will have an opportunity to learn about common best practices, cad up and assemble new systems, and explore new approaches. Depending on the needs of the project/team, there may be many variants/extensions, such as building setups with precise temperature control, objective lenses (as opposed to fibers), and the addition of electronic probes alongside the optical probes.

  • We are looking for candidates who have experience with cad, python, and math up through trig, and some knowledge of circuits (voltage, current, and resistance. Students do not need to know what high-pass and low-pass filtering is, but if they do these skills can be useful). 
  • Experience designing machinable parts is a must. We would additionally like to see (but do not require) some knowledge of vectors, calculus, ODEs, or microcontrollers.
  • We are also looking for people that are exploratory, collaborative, creative, safety-focused.

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