October 2025

Application Technician (m/f/d)

This is a critical role within TOPTICA Americas office in Rochester, New York. The Application Technician will provide in-the-lab demonstrations to prove that TOPTICA’s laser systems meet the requirements of customers’ applications, particularly in target markets like interferometry, holography, and semiconductor inspection, or in bio photonics and microscopy.

These demonstrations typically serve specific customer enquiries, but they may be experiments with academic collaborators that demonstrate new capabilities of TOPTICA’s products. The Application Technician will work with application scientists and with sales to determine customer requirements and will design and implement experiments to test those requirements in TOPTICA’s Applications Lab or at the customer site. They will support customers as they implement TOPTICA’s solutions, and they will solicit information from and support TOPTICA R&D, service, and production teams.

Key job responsibilities:

  • The primary responsibility of the Application Technician is to ensure that TOPTICA laser demos for key customers are well planned and executed.
  • Communicate with TOPTICA application scientists and sales, and with customers, to define requirements for successful laser demonstrations for specific customer enquiries. Design and build experiments to measure these requirements.
  • Communicate with TOPTICA application scientists and academic collaborators to define requirements for new application demonstrations, and design and build experiments that measure to these requirements.
  • Write or contribute to application notes, whitepapers, and journal articles to deliver experimental results.
  • Visit potential customers and participate in trade shows and conferences in the Americas and reinforce TOPTICA’s reputation for quality with product demonstrations and presentations.  
  • Provide expertise during product demonstrations at tradeshow events and workshops. 
  • Visit the manufacturing facility in Munich to become familiar with the entire product range and the sales and marketing activities specifically in North America.

Required skills:

  • TOPTICA’s lasers serve a wide range of applications, so the Application Technician must be a quick learner, adaptable, and possess very good optical laboratory skills.
  • Excellent hands-on laser and optics laboratory experience, preferably in fields of semiconductor inspection, interferometry, and holography, or in bio photonics and microscopy.
  • Strong ability to confidently communicate in-person and remotely.
  • Excellent presentation and writing skills.
  • Good time management, independent and self-starting.
  • Outstanding computer and project management skills.
  • Eager to grow within the role, develop and build on current skills.

Education and training requirements:

  • Master’s degree in a relevant field such as Optics, Physics (especially optical physics), or Electrical Engineering.

Other duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Interested?
Please send your resume, cover letter, and expected start date to jobs [at] toptica-usa.com

TOPTICA Photonics Inc
1120 Pittsford Victor Rd
Pittsford, NY 14534


U.S.A.
Tel. +1 585.657.6663
Fax: +1 877.277.9897

Affirmative Action/EEO statement

TOPTICA Photonics, Inc.’s policy is to recruit and employ people with skills to advance our technology driven industry, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, citizenship, national origin, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, disability (including neurodiversity), genetic information, veteran status or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state, or local law.  Our policies aim for the high standards of fair and equal opportunity, covering all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, recruitment and employment, promotions, compensation, team opportunities, and training programs. We are committed to compliance with all laws and regulations relating to equal employment opportunity (EEO), affirmative action, harassment prevention, and ensuring that all employment decisions are based on applicable job requirements.

Other duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

About our Company

TOPTICA is a privately held, technology driven visionary company, which develops and sells diode and ultrafast fiber lasers for scientific and industrial applications. TOPTICA Photonics, Inc. is fascinated by the unlimited applications of laser technology and appreciates all types of personalities. This is when team spirit and company culture are at their best and is the key cornerstone for our success. Our teams keep us excited and have resulted in over 20 years of success in the scientific and industrial environment.

TOPTICA Photonics, Inc.’s quality policy is to deliver state-of-the-art technology, quality goods and services to our customers on time and in an environment of continual improvement.

TOPTICA Photonics Inc. offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive total benefits starting on day one package that includes fully paid medical insurance premium and fully funded Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) to cover all in-network out of pocket medical expense as well as 401(k) plans match up to 6% of employee contributions.

 

Job Title:
Application Technician

Reports to:
Senior Product Manager       

Direct Reports:
0

Wage Range:
$70,000 to $90,000

Hours per week:
40

Full-Time
Salaried
On-Site

Send resume to:
jobs@toptica-usa.com