Jobs at IPG Photonics

Supports talent acquisition and talent management programs, including interview scheduling, candidate communications, requisition and ATS maintenance, onboarding, background checks, learning and development activities, performance review cycles, succession-planning administration, reporting, and project coordination. Maintains confidential talent records, supports HR technology and approved AI tools, and partners with recruiters, hiring managers, HR, IT, and Facilities.

Leads mechanical and opto-mechanical development of complex light-based medical devices from design inputs through verification, validation, and manufacturing transfer. Develops specifications, intellectual property, cost-reduction initiatives, prototypes, optical systems, thermal-management solutions, and regulatory documentation. Coordinates internal teams, suppliers, partners, and customer transfers while ensuring compliance with FDA requirements, ISO 13485, and CE Mark standards. Requires advanced mechanical engineering expertise, SolidWorks proficiency, project leadership, and occasional travel.

Supports the Quality department by extracting, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing manufacturing, testing, and service data. Builds dashboards, identifies trends and root causes, supports nonconformity and CAPA investigations, maintains quality records, and communicates findings to cross-functional teams. The role also assists with audits, 8D reports, continuous improvement, and quality metric reporting.

Part-time Associate Engineer supporting the development of a precision electromechanical system from concept through design, assembly, controls integration, testing, and presentation. Responsibilities include mechanical CAD and drawings, prototype assembly, component selection, software development, PLC/HMI support, troubleshooting, optimization, and technical documentation. Candidates should be pursuing or have completed a relevant engineering bachelor’s degree and possess CAD, prototyping, programming, and controls interests or experience.

Leads optical coating development and production process introduction for laser optics. Designs and evaluates thin-film coatings across VUV, DUV, UV, visible, and near-IR ranges; operates and troubleshoots vacuum coating equipment; develops workflows, protocols, and process controls; analyzes metrology and SPC data; resolves critical technical issues; and collaborates across R&D, manufacturing, and other teams.

Develop and support complex software for laser-based industrial automation and material-processing systems. Lead technical execution across machine-control subsystems, mentor engineers, and coordinate software integration, testing, commissioning, and customer acceptance. Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, controls, applications, manufacturing, and service teams to resolve system-level issues involving motion control, machine vision, communications, and hardware. Improve software architectures, quality practices, reusable components, and development processes while supporting customer installations and occasional travel.

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.

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