Optical Engineering Intern (Summer 2026)

Formlabs

📍 Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Intern Drafters, Engineering Technicians, and Mapping Technicians Posted February 26, 2026

Job Description

To reinvent an industry, you have to build the best team.

Join Formlabs if you want to bring groundbreaking professional 3D printers to the desktop of every designer, engineer, researcher, and artist in the world.

The Optical Systems Engineering Intern will support the optics team in developing, optimizing, and validating optical systems architectures to create new 3D printing paradigms. 


Internship Term: Summer 2026
Commitment: Full-time
Location: Onsite in Somerville, MA


The Job:

  • Provide support during optical system architecture development, component and system testing, validation, and integration.

  • Design and build experimental test setups, including automation of data acquisition.

  • Conduct hands-on experiments on 3D printers and in the optics lab to collect and analyze data.

  • Document and present results to the greater engineering team, and make re...