Careers

We are a fast-growing publicly listed high technology company and we offer extremely competitive employment packages. Our team is composed of world-class technologists. Our materials scientists synthesize new polymer materials to technical specifications driven by photonic device engineers who are creating a polymer PIC platform for the datacenter and high performance computing markets in fiber communications. We are also implementing our technology into non-communication markets.

Our current job openings are listed below, but if you feel that you are truly world-class, you have the right experience base, and you believe you can add value to our technology platform (as seen from the photonics product roadmap webpage) then please feel free to submit your resume to: resumes@lightwavelogic.com.
If you decide to submit your resume, please also write a short (less than 1 page) cover letter with a couple of succinct reasons why you should be considered to join our world-class team. Our entrance hurdle is high, but not impossible should you have the experience and skill base to assist us in becoming the leading polymer photonic PIC technology player in the world.

Reliability Engineer

Lightwave Logic (Nasdaq: LWLG) is a publicly traded technology company that is doing exciting work commercializing its proprietary organic nonlinear polymers for a variety of electro-optic devices, with primary applications in high-speed fiber-optic telecom and data communications. Our development roadmap is geared to disrupt the industry by introducing organic modulators and related photonic integrated circuits that have superior speed, lower power consumption, and smaller size than present inorganic devices. Our materials and devices are extendable into other applications, including sensors and instrumentation. We are seeking a Reliability  Engineer to work in our facility in Englewood, CO. Lightwave offers competitive compensation and benefits along with a fast-paced working environment.

 

Lightwave Logic’s Materials Team has designed our chromophores to provide high electro-optic activity as well as all the other properties needed for use in a commercial product. Lightwave Logic’s Device Team is designing high speed, low drive voltage optical modulators based on these electro-optic chromophores.  Lightwave Logic’s materials scientists and device engineers have designed our chromophores and devices for thermal stability and resistance to photodegradation to insure high reliability over operating life.  As a member of the Reliability Engineering Team, the Reliability Engineer will work with our Materials and Device Teams to insure and evaluate the reliability of our materials and devices and to qualify our products for commercial release.

 

Minimum requirements

  • Master’s degree (Ph.D. preferred) in material science, electrical engineering, physics, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of industry experience evaluating the reliability of commercial products and materials, preferably semiconductor based integrated photonics for applications in the optical communications space.
  • Experience designing and conducting accelerated aging tests and other tests to evaluate the reliability of semiconductor based integrated photonics including compound semiconductor based devices (applicants with experience in the silicon electronics industry or other areas of semiconductor reliability will be considered).
  • Experience applying aging models to accelerated aging data to model average time to failure under operating conditions and failure rates over operating lifetime at operating conditions.
  • Experience working with design teams to implement design for reliability (DfR).
  • Experience in analytical methods and failure analysis to determine root cause of failures or degradation of optical communications devices and related materials for use in DfR.
  • Experience qualifying products to Telcordia standards such as GR-468 including planning and executing the full suite of relevant tests.
  • Strong problem solving skills.
  • Able to work as part of a team as well as independently with minimal supervision.
  • Extreme attention to detail and data integrity.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Desired skills

  • Experience in reliability related material science especially pertaining to organic materials.
  • Competence with JMP or other similar tool for organizing, analyzing and preparing for presentation large bodies of reliability and qualification data.
  • Competent in data analysis software such as MATLAB or Python.
  • Competent in experiment control software such as LabVIEW or Python.
  • Experience operating environmental chambers, complex scientific equipment and metrology tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively work in an engineering product-development team and with other relevant groups such as external suppliers, consultants, and partners.

 

Lightwave Logic offers a highly competitive compensation package including stock options, as well as comprehensive benefits including fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage (employee and family), a generous PTO policy, $500/year (prorated) company contribution to your medical FSA, and a 401K (safe harbor, 4 % match).

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and CV/resume to resumes@lightwavelogic.com.

Reliability Engineering Manager

Lightwave Logic (Nasdaq: LWLG) is a publicly traded technology company that is doing exciting work commercializing its proprietary organic nonlinear polymers for a variety of electro-optic devices, with primary applications in high-speed fiber-optic telecom and data communications. Our development roadmap is geared to disrupt the industry by introducing organic modulators and related photonic integrated circuits that have superior speed, lower power consumption, and smaller size than present inorganic devices. Our materials and devices are extendable into other applications, including sensors and instrumentation. We are seeking a Reliability  Engineering Manager to work in our facility in Englewood, CO. Lightwave offers competitive compensation and benefits along with a fast-paced working environment.

 

Lightwave Logic’s Materials Team has designed our chromophores to provide high electro-optic activity as well as all the other properties needed for use in a commercial product. Lightwave Logic’s Device Team is designing high speed, low drive voltage optical modulators based on these electro-optic chromophores.  Lightwave Logic’s materials scientists and device engineers have designed our chromophores and devices for thermal stability and resistance to photodegradation to insure high reliability over operating life.  Reliability Engineering Manager will act as a hands on technical contributor and a technical team leader of the Reliability Engineering Team in the Reliability Engineering Team’s work with our Materials and Device Teams to insure and evaluate the reliability of our materials and devices and to qualify our products for commercial release.

 

Minimum requirements

  • D. preferred in material science, electrical engineering, physics, or a related field (MSc acceptable with at least 10 years of industrial reliability engineering experience).
  • 7+ years of industry experience evaluating the reliability of commercial products and materials, preferably semiconductor based integrated photonics for applications in the optical communications space.
  • Experience designing and conducting accelerated aging tests and other tests to evaluate the reliability of semiconductor based integrated photonics including compound semiconductors based devices (applicants with experience in the silicon electronics industry or other areas of semiconductor reliability will be considered).
  • Experience applying aging models to accelerated aging data to model average time to failure under operating conditions and failure rates over operating lifetime at operating conditions.
  • Experience working with design teams to implement design for reliability (DfR).
  • Experience in analytical methods and failure analysis to determine root cause of failures or degradation of optical communications devices and related materials for use in DfR.
  • Experience qualifying products to Telcordia standards such as GR-468 including planning and executing the full suite of relevant tests.
  • Strong problem solving skills.
  • Decisive decision making and good people skills.
  • Able to work as part of a team as well as independently with minimal supervision.
  • Extreme attention to detail and data integrity.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Desired skills

  • Experience leading a technical team in an industrial engineering organization.
  • Experience in reliability related material science especially pertaining to organic materials.
  • Competence with JMP or other similar tool for organizing, analyzing and preparing for presentation large bodies of reliability and qualification data.
  • Competent in data analysis software such as MATLAB or Python.
  • Competent in experiment control software such as LabVIEW or Python.
  • Experience operating environmental chambers, complex scientific equipment, and metrology tools.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively work in an engineering product-development team and with other relevant groups such as external suppliers, consultants, and partners.

 

Lightwave Logic offers a highly competitive compensation package including stock options, as well as comprehensive benefits including fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage (employee and family), a generous PTO policy, $500/year (prorated) company contribution to your medical FSA, and a 401K (safe harbor, 4 % match).

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and CV/resume to resumes@lightwavelogic.com.

RF Engineer

Lightwave Logic (Nasdaq: LWLG) is a publicly traded material and device development company that is doing exciting work, commercializing its proprietary organic nonlinear polymers for a variety of electrooptic devices and pushing the state of the art in high-speed fiber-optic telecom and data communications. Our development roadmap is geared to disrupt the industry by introducing organic modulators and related photonic integrated circuits that have superior speed, lower power consumption, and smaller size than present inorganic devices. Our materials and devices are extendable into other applications, including sensors and instrumentation. We are seeking a RF Engineer to work in our facility in Englewood, CO. Lightwave offers competitive compensation and benefits along with a fast-paced work environment.

This position supports the device team to characterize the electrical properties of our materials and modulators, with emphasis on high-frequency performance. The candidate will measure and analyze electrical properties of materials and devices at RF and MM-wave frequencies and will also be involved in RF circuit design and optimization. A strong background in hands-on research and development,
laboratory work operating complex scientific instruments, finite-element modeling, and experiment design is required. Knowledge of on-chip electrical waveguide design as well as RF circuit simulation is required. Experience working with electro-optic modulators is desired but not essential. The ideal candidate is detail oriented and career driven with a desire to be on the cutting edge of implementing game-changing technologies for future communications systems.

Basic requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field, plus 4+ years of relevant industry
experience. Masters or PhD degree preferred.
• Experience calibrating and operating a vector network analyzer (VNA).
• Finite-element simulation work in ANSYS HFSS, Keysight EMPro and ADS, COMSOL, or similar
software packages.
• Competent in data analysis software such as MATLAB or Python.
• Competent in experiment control software such as LabVIEW or Python.
• Ability to work effectively as part of an inter-disciplinary engineering team that includes device
designers, micro-fabrication engineers, packaging and test engineers, and technicians.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Desired skills
• Three to five years’ experience working in RF/electro-optic testing and commercializing photonic
devices.
• Experience with wafer level (probed) measurements and calibrations.
• Experience operating complex scientific equipment and metrology tools.
• The desire and ability to learn new skills quickly and to work independently on assigned tasks.
• Demonstrated technical innovation and experience in photonic device evaluation and data
analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work in an engineering product-development team and with
other relevant groups such as external suppliers, consultants, and partners.

Lightwave Logic offers a highly competitive compensation package including stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits package including fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage (employee and family), a generous PTO policy, $500/year (prorated) company contribution to your medical FSA, and a 401K (safe harbor, 4 % match).

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and CV/resume to resumes@lightwavelogic.com

Device Test Engineer

Lightwave Logic (Nasdaq: LWLG) is a publicly traded material and device development company that is doing exciting work, commercializing its proprietary organic nonlinear polymers for a variety of electro-optic devices and pushing the state of the art in high-speed fiber-optic telecom and data communications. Our development roadmap is geared to disrupt the industry by introducing organic modulators and related photonic integrated circuits that have superior speed, lower power consumption, and smaller size than present inorganic devices. Our materials and devices are extendable into other applications, including sensors and instrumentation. We are seeking a Device Test Engineer to work in our facility in Englewood, CO. Lightwave offers competitive compensation and benefits along with a fast-paced working environment.

This position supports the device team to characterize the optical and electrical properties of our materials and modulators. The candidate will measure and analyze electrical, optical, and electro-optical properties of materials and devices over a range of frequencies and will also be involved in metrology studies. A strong background in hands-on research and development, laboratory work operating complex scientific instruments, and experience with optical alignment is strongly desired. The ideal candidate is detail oriented and career driven with a desire to be on the cutting edge of implementing game-changing technologies for future communications systems.

 

Minimum requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, materials engineering, optical engineering, physics, or related field.
  • 2+ years of hands-on laboratory experience, preferably in an industry setting.
  • Experience operating benchtop test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, function generators, and DC power supplies.
  • Able to work as part of a team as well as independently with minimal supervision.
  • Extreme attention to detail and data integrity.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.

 

Desired skills

  • Three to five years’ experience working in RF/electro-optic testing and commercializing electro-optic modulators or other photonic devices.
  • Experience with end face or grating coupler optical alignment.
  • Competent in data analysis software such as MATLAB or Python.
  • Competent in experiment control software such as LabVIEW or Python.
  • Experience with fiber-coupled laser systems and components.
  • Experience operating complex scientific equipment and metrology tools.
  • The ability to learn new skills quickly and to work independently on assigned tasks.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively work in an engineering product-development team and with other relevant groups such as external suppliers, consultants, and partners.

 

Lightwave Logic offers a highly competitive compensation package including stock options, as well as comprehensive benefits including fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage (employee and family), a generous PTO policy, $500/year (prorated) company contribution to your medical FSA, and a 401K (safe harbor, 4 % match).

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and CV/resume to resumes@lightwavelogic.com