Jobs at IPG Photonics

Manage and optimize paid social campaigns, primarily on LinkedIn, while overseeing social publishing, SEO-focused web content, employee advocacy, and campaign reporting. Develop content calendars, coordinate creative and regional marketing teams, support video and photo production, and analyze campaign performance to improve engagement, lead generation, ROI, and creative iteration across B2B product lines.

Provides technical support for executives, manufacturing teams, computer hardware, software, meeting rooms, and helpdesk tickets. Troubleshoots issues, resolves or escalates incidents, images computers, manages Windows, Office, Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and Exchange environments, and participates in off-hours support. Travel to remote company sites may be required.

Develops operator dashboards, real-time visualization tools, and control interfaces for high-energy laser defense systems. Responsibilities include C++/C# and Qt/QML GUI development, telemetry and video integration, usability testing with operators, AR visualization, secure coding, code reviews, CI, and compliance with cybersecurity and usability standards.

Designs, implements, and validates embedded firmware for laser, thermal, and beam-control subsystems. Develops deterministic state machines, safety interlocks, firing sequences, real-time communications, and closed-loop PID/feed-forward controls. Supports board bring-up, hardware-software integration, debugging, testing, CI practices, verification, configuration control, cybersecurity, and field testing in accordance with MIL-STD requirements. Collaborates with optical, electrical, and systems engineers on directed-energy platforms.

Develops real-time computer vision, image-processing, tracking, and state-estimation algorithms for directed-energy defense systems. Responsibilities include integrating vision pipelines with sensors, gimbals, and beam-steering hardware; optimizing CUDA and TensorRT workloads on NVIDIA Jetson platforms; processing EO/IR imagery; building simulation and playback tools; and supporting modeling, field testing, calibration, and algorithm validation.

Supports and enhances Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Marketing and integrations with ERP and MES systems. Gathers and documents requirements, facilitates stakeholder workshops, translates needs into functional specifications and user stories, supports CRM processes, leads UAT, and assists with data migration, deployment, cutover, training, documentation, and post-go-live support.

Own the product strategy and roadmap for software in the IPG Systems BU. Gather customer and stakeholder input, define prioritized requirements and PRDs, manage backlog and sprint planning, partner with engineering on releases, support go-to-market activities, and track product success metrics like adoption, NPS, and revenue impact.

The Digital & Social Media Marketing Specialist at IPG manages social media channels, creates content, develops web pages, and analyzes performance. They collaborate with teams across the organization and report on social media metrics and trends.

The Senior Opto Mechanical Engineer will design and develop optical mounts and laser head packages while leading prototype builds and testing, collaborating with teams and vendors.

Lead reliability modeling, lifetime and environmental testing, failure analysis, and design-for-reliability for ultrafast and UV laser systems. Develop reliability plans, run ALT/HALT/HASS tests, perform Weibull and RCA analyses, support suppliers and field service, and implement continuous improvements to improve MTBF and reduce warranty costs.

Process bi-weekly payroll for 150 employees, manage account reconciliations, conduct financial reporting, support accounts receivable, and process employee expense reports while adhering to deadlines.

Lead contamination control and process development for DUV laser systems; analyze degradation mechanisms and collaborate with R&D teams.

Lead the development of complex medical devices, ensuring compliance with global regulatory standards while managing projects and teams.

Develop and lead C/C++ software for embedded Linux targets, focusing on real-time applications, performance profiling, and mentoring junior developers.

Design and develop FPGA-based systems for lasers, scanners, and inspection systems. Perform RTL design and verification, timing closure, bitstream generation, hardware bring-up, lab debugging, integration, testing, and production support. Collaborate with hardware and software teams from concept through production.

Lead design of end-to-end data architecture across ERP, CRM (Dynamics 365), MES, PLM and enterprise data platforms. Define canonical data models, integration patterns (APIs, event-driven, ETL/ELT), MDM and governance, enable analytics/AI on Azure data services, and provide technical leadership and stakeholder influence.

Manage the Mechanical Engineering group, lead development of optical devices, mentor team members, and ensure quality design and packaging of systems in medical devices.

Provide hands-on HR support across multiple regional sites as primary HR contact. Lead employee relations, investigations, onboarding, workforce planning, compliance, manager coaching, HR metrics analysis, and partner with corporate HR centers to implement programs and change initiatives.

Maintain and secure global IT infrastructure, provide 2nd/3rd-level support and on-call coverage, administer Azure/AWS, Active Directory/Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Nutanix, VMware and backups, lead patching and vulnerability remediation, manage deployments/migrations at branch locations, monitor systems, coordinate vendors, and follow project timelines to meet SLAs and security/compliance requirements.

Support product quality and reliability across systems by analyzing quality data, participating in qualification and reliability testing, performing root-cause investigations, supporting manufacturing process improvement and design transfer, and maintaining quality system documentation and CAPA activities to ensure compliance with QMS/ISO requirements.