High Power Optical R&D Engineer W/M
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Contract type: Permanent contract
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Work time: Full time
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Localization Rennes
Job description
Would you like to apply and develop your optical skills through innovative technical projects in areas such as spatial light shaping to improve industrial high power laser machining processes?
Join the Cailabs R&D department!
After an experience in industry or in academic research, come and join a dynamic team of engineers and PhDs who share your desire to put their skills at the service of stimulating technical challenges. You will find a collective emulation and a strong intellectual interest in your work. You will be immersed in a company at the cutting edge of technology, from the development of prototypes to the industrialisation phases.
In this team, your main missions are to :
- Lead the development of new prototypes and high power laser shaping products,
- Lead the improvement of the performance of existing products,
- Propose new system architectures according to customer requirements for laser machining processes,
- Integrate and test prototypes and new products at Cailabs and at customer sites.
Essential skills
Expected technical skills:
- You have at least 3 years experience in the development of optical technologies (including academic research / thesis)
- You are trained in optics and have practical expertise in this field
- You are comfortable with the design of free space optical experiments and their experimental implementation
- You are familiar with automated data acquisition and processing using a programming language (Python)
- You are autonomous, able to identify problems and find solutions, sometimes under time pressure
- You are capable of exchanging and effectively managing people from other fields (mechanics, electronics, etc.)
- You are able to discuss your technical projects with your team in fluent English, both in writing and verbally
- Ability to work in a team
- Fluency in professional English required
You are known for :
- Ability to lead complex multi-disciplinary research projects,
- Good synthesis skills and proactivity.

About Cailabs
Founded in 2013, Cailabs is the world leader in shaping light through the development of a unique and patented technology (MPLC). It designs, manufactures, and develops innovative photonic solutions for space, industry (laser machining), telecommunications, and defense. Its medium-term ambition is to become the global leader in optical ground stations. With its offering of optical ground stations TILBA-OGS, incorporating its solution for compensating atmospheric turbulence, TILBA-ATMO, Cailabs is the first and only company to harness the high-speed capabilities of optics in a ground station on an industrial scale. Cailabs currently employs over 80 collaborators, including 22 PhDs. With 26 families of patents filed, the company is among the most innovative in the space industry.
When you join Cailabs, you will find :
- a brilliant team driven by a common mission : to create and sale products that help solve some of today’s major industrial and technological challenges for multiple applications
- a dynamic structure that combines agility and resources to match its ambitions
- a company at the cutting edge of technology, from the development of prototypes to the industrialization phase.
And also :
- Times of sharing and conviviality (annual seminar, meals, group games, sports activities, etc.)
- A health insurance plan covered at 100% by Cailabs.
- A bonus system to reward collective and individual performances
Joining Cailabs is finally the assurance that everything will be done to help you perform, improve and take up new challenges.
More information on www.cailabs.com,, in particular: TILBA | Cailabs : Fiabiliser les communications laser
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This position has been filled.