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Laser; Coherent Beam Combining Engineer
Job in
Goleta, Santa Barbara County, California, 93116, USA
Listed on 2026-02-16
Listing for:
Fusion Energy Base
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-02-16
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Lasers, Optics, Physics, Engineering, or a related field, with experience in high-energy laser system design and development
- Strong expertise in high energy laser coherent beam combining technologies
- Background and expertise with semiconductor laser sources and fiber laser amplifiers
- Proficiency with modeling software such as Finesse, Zemax, COMSOL, Lumerical, RSoft, Python, Mathematica, or ANSYS Lumerical for laser and cavity simulations.
- Experience developing electro-mechanical feedback systems is desirable
- Experience working in cross-disciplinary teams across multiple technical fields
- Work on site primarily in Goleta (Santa Barbara), CA
- Occasionally travel to work with international and domestic development partners
- Work closely with BLF Founder, Shuji Nakamura
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience
- Comprehensive medical and dental benefits
- Professional development opportunities, and paid vacation and holidays.
- Stock options as part of our long-term incentive plan
We are seeking an experienced engineer to drive the development of advanced high energy laser systems using coherent beam combining techniques. The Laser Engineer will enhance BLF’s laser-OEC concept by:
Responsibilities- Developing CBC laser sources with increased input power
- Developing active optical, mechanical, and feedbacking elements to maintain resonance
- Work with laser and fiber amplifier vendors to develop and procure optimal sources
- Modeling optical performance of the laser-enhancement cavity using industry-standard software
- Assessing thermal effects at higher input powers
- Troubleshooting and optimizing system performance
The BLF laser-optical enhancement cavity platform utilizes a Fabry-Pérot cavity to stack and store a train of lower power pulses into kJ+ high-energy pulses. This system requires:
System Requirements- Ultra-high reflectivity mirrors
- Pulsed, high power laser injection
- High finesse cavities up to 150m in length
- Precise resonance tuning between the input laser and the cavity
- Minimization of optical losses
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