About Seurat

Seurat is transforming manufacturing for people and our planet by delivering a scalable additive manufacturing solution to fundamentally change how products are made. Seurat’s proprietary Area Printing process, developed at Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL), allows metal components to be manufactured at price points and quality levels that compete directly with conventional manufacturing techniques, enabling the reshoring of supply chains and promoting the decarbonization of industry. Seurat has raised over $180M and is backed by leading venture partners like Capricorn, NVentures (NVIDIA), True Ventures, General Motors Ventures, Denso, Porsche SE, SIP global partners, Honda, Xerox Ventures/Myriad Venture Partners, Cubit Capital, Siemens Energy, and Maniv Mobility.

Responsibilities

This open position for Electro-Optics internship at Seurat will primarily support the research and development to help produce our revolutionary electro-optic switching devices and device assembly, and to support short term and long-term technology development at Seurat. Additional tasks will include supporting technical proposals, development of automated in-process equipment, and materials and process improvement. It is expected that the intern will contribute to projects that include electro-optical design, optical and thermal model development, materials testing, electrical system design, hardware assembly, test, and debug. Specific task areas include but are not limited to: optical component test and evaluation including design and fabrication of custom optical evaluation setups, optical and electronic modeling, optical system assembly including micro optic assembly, and optical and mechanical system test and evaluation.

This internships is expected to last 3 to 12 months per internships. Interns are expected to work with programs such as LabVIEW, MATLAB, SolidWorks, COMSOL, ANSYS and Mentor Graphics.

Qualifications

Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Sciences students at all levels from senior undergraduates, to graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers. Hands-on experience preferred. Additional desirable experience: High Power Lasers, Optical design, thermal control, electro-optic component test and evaluation, circuit theory, machine shop, technical assembly, Excel, LabVIEW, MATLAB, ACAD, Mentor Graphics. Preferred a background in electro-optics and liquid crystals, who will accelerate our path to process controls and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) that can be tracked and monitored.

• Experience with processing, development, testing of liquid crystal for electro-optical applications.
• Experience with quality control practices; quality and continuous improvement focus
• Demonstrated success with improvement cycle: from root cause analysis to corrective action
• Experience with optical microscopy & thin film characterization
• Experience with electrical characterization: impedance analyzers or IV Curve Tracers
• Experience with signal generation & measurement: time & frequency domain characterization
• Familiarity with optical materials and coatings as well as their manufacturing techniques
• Highly organized with attention to detail
• Effective communication, both verbal and written.
• Must be able to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams.

Requirements

• Undergraduate student in good standing, Masters or PhD. in EE, Physics, Mathematics, Optics, Materials Science, and Chemistry

Preferred Experiences

• Prototype/ alpha to production ramp up experience
• Experience developing KPIs for early-stage systems
• Opto-mechanical and electronic device testing, especially test automation and data analysis
• Cleanroom operation & contamination control
• LCD (liquid crystal display) manufacturing, processing, formulation
• Optical Materials & Coating design & manufacturing
• Design of diagnostic optical fixtures, Optics concepts (esp polarization)
• Thin Film Metrology: especially model-fitting techniques eg Spectral Reflectance
• Polarization, petrology, and Nomarski DIC (Differential interference contrast) microscopy

Seurat Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values employees with a broad cross-cultural perspective. We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. All applicants will receive fair and impartial treatment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information or on any other basis which is protected under applicable federal, state or local law.