Summer 2025 Intern - Optics Engineering

About Alcon:

As the global leader in eye care, Alcon has built a rich history of providing innovative products to customers and patients all over the world. We're extremely proud of our legacy and the significant way we've helped to shape the industry over the last 70 years, but we're just getting started. Our relentless passion to eliminate unmet medical needs drives our pursuit to further advance eye health worldwide. We're looking for exceptionally talented, driven people who want to make a difference. If you'd like to help us change the way the world sees, this is your chance to Be Brilliant!

Position Description:

Fiber optics is used for delivery of coherent or non-coherent radiation into eye for visualization (illumination) and/or treatment purposes. Also, the handpiece may need to serve other functions like delivery or aspiration of liquids to or from the eye. This position requires a hands-on person with generic familiarity with fiber optics and photonics equipment like lasers and power meters. Throughout the internship the design and process requirements get discussed with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and the intern can prototype, test, and iterate on the design and process to meet the requirements.

The Alcon team is looking for a talented and motivated intern to join us onsite for Summer 2025 at the Lake Forest, CA location.

Alcon interns will have the opportunity to not only gain industry experience and network with other Alcon professionals. They will also have the chance to make a real-world impact by working on meaningful projects that will help patients and customers see brilliantly. Alcon also offer interns personal and professional development, high visibility and coaching and mentoring opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the key stake holders to define and refine design and process requirements.

• Hands-on engineers with familiarity with fiber optics and operating photonics equipment's like lasers and power meters

• Perform Design of Experiment (DOE), execute protocols, and present to team the data and next steps.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be enrolled in an accredited university or college for at least one semester prior to internship or co-op, and at least one additional semester following internship or co-op.

• Must be pursuing at least a bachelor's level degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Applied Physics or related major.

• Academic performance: Minimum cumulative GPA 2.8/4.0

• Demonstrated leadership skills (i.e. extracurricular activities or projects)

• Must be authorized to work in the US on a permanent basis without requiring sponsorship (students on an F1 visa with CPT can be accommodated)

• Ability to commit to a full time (40 hrs. per week) Intern position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Independent worker

• Solid works Experience

• 3D Printing Experience

• Quick Learner

• Comfortable with Lasers in a lab

• Lab Experience

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Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to alcon.recruitment@alcon.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.