Intern, Integrated Photonic Devices Engineer

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a graduate intern to support the development of photonic devices for next-generation sensing and communications. The role focuses on designing, building, testing, and characterizing integrated acousto-optic devices, RF/microwave photonics, distributed fiber sensing, and fiber-optic communications systems.

What you'll do:

• Design and execute experiments to characterize photonic devices, components, and subsystems
• Develop measurement methods; collect, assess, and interpret experimental data
• Evaluate performance such as optical loss, coupling, bandwidth, modulation response, linearity, noise, or environmental sensitivity
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to integrate and validate mature designs at device, subsystem, and system levels

What they're looking for:

• To be eligible, candidate's must be pursuing a master's or doctoral degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Science, or a related field
• Experience with waveguide acousto-optic modulators or deflectors, SAW/BAW transducers, RF-drive integration, or acousto-optic mode conversion
• Experience with programmable RF/microwave photonic circuits, tunable delay or true-time-delay, microwave photonic filtering, frequency conversion, or low-phase-noise photonic sources
• Experience with frequency combs, silicon/silicon-nitride/InP/thin-film lithium-niobate PICs, photonic packaging, or electronic-photonic co-integration
• Strong foundation in photonics, device physics, electromagnetics, or related analytical methods
• Experimental research, internship, laboratory, or substantial project experience in at least one of: integrated photonics, acousto-optic devices, RF/microwave photonics, distributed fiber sensing, or fiber-optic communications

Benefits:

• 9/80 schedule: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days, totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off