Role Summary

The Applications Engineer, Photonics supports the Photonics Division through a combination of laboratory-based application development and direct customer engagement. The role focuses on developing proof-of-concept demonstrations, providing technical sales support, and enabling customer adoption of photonic solutions. This position plays a critical role in securing design wins, benchmarking product performance, and translating customer requirements into real-world photonic system demonstrations.



Approximately 70% of the role is based on-site in Santa Barbara across lab and office activities, with the remaining time dedicated to customer visits, trade shows, and industry events.



Key Responsibilities

• Identify and support high-value applications in lasers, integrated photonics, and optical sensing.


• Capture customer technical requirements and map them to QCi photonic soluti...