The goal of the AIM Photonics internship program is to give highly qualified students hands-on education and training opportunities in all aspects of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design, fabrication and packaging in our unique R&D/manufacturing setting. Students who come through our internship program get a valuable, real-world educational work experience in our advanced manufacturing facilities in Albany and Rochester, which then gives them a powerful launching pad for employment opportunities in the U.S. integrated photonics industry. AIM Photonics offers paid internships for 11 weeks during the summer. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident currently enrolled in relevant undergraduate and graduate science and engineering programs. As an intern, you will be paired with AIM Photonics engineers and researchers at our 300 mm Si wafer photonics fabrication and testing facilities at the Albany NanoTech Complex or at our Test, Assembly, and Packaging (TAP) facility in Rochester, NY. The projects you’ll work on may involve PIC design, PIC device development, fabrication, testing and modeling, and PIC packaging. Past projects have included the development of wafer-scale PIC device data analysis, on-chip characterization of passive and active PICs, development of fiber-attach for SiN-based PICs, and development of PIC design libraries. At the conclusion of your internship, you’ll have the opportunity to present your project results to the broader AIM Photonics industrial membership, which includes many of the world’s leading companies, universities and research organizations developing integrated photonics technologies.
