Photonics Internship

Company Description

Hello

We're looking for a highly motivated **Photonics Intern** to join our team on our journey to revolutionize personalized medicine** **who is willing to gain experience in the field and the opportunity to develop new skills in a start-up environment.

iLoF is creating a breakthrough platform to accelerate the future of personalized drug discovery & development through advanced AI & photonics. We collect massive amounts of data to build a digital library of biomarkers & biological profiles, to get life-saving personalized treatments to patients faster.

We share a passion for being part of a mission that matters, and we are always looking for curious and collaborative people who share our values and want to be part of our journey. We offer a fast-paced cross-functional, technologically advanced, start-up environment, and passionate about developing new skills and making a difference.

**Job Description**:
**Project: Affordable and robust wavelength monitoring single frequency lasers**

The ideal intern would have an interest in hardware interfacing, be confident with optics and electronics and be able to write and adapt code to communicate with the selected sensor.

**Tasks**:

- Implement communication with integrated microcontroller on the sensor using an Arduino or similar
- Write software as required to enable analysis of data acquired
- Test performance of the detector (sensitivity and bandwidth)

**Qualifications**:
Master in Physics Engineering or similar

Knowledge in optics and photonics

**Must haves**:

- Great initiative and drive to make things happen
- Must be a passionate problem-solver with a proactive spirit
- Experience working within the Google Workspace
- Available to complete at least 6 consecutive months of internship with a minimum of 15 work hours per week.
- Not being employed during the internship

Additional Information
**iLoF in a nutshell**

As personalized medicine becomes the norm, scientists, patients, and healthcare systems worldwide face massive barriers in providing the right treatment to the right patient.

Recognized by CB Insights and Financial Times as one of the most promising Digital Health companies in the world, iLoF is building an AI-powered breakthrough platform capable of transforming precision medicine.

Our goal is to become the platform that democratizes access to personalized medicine for millions of people living with complex diseases around the globe.

Thanks to our proprietary optical fingerprint library of disease biomarkers and biological profiles we can offer personalized patient screening and stratification in a faster and more affordable way, saving up to 40% of the cost and 70% of the time while enabling a more human patient experience.

Supported by leading institutions like Microsoft Ventures, Mayfield, or the Oxford University, iLoF is currently focusing on a validated platform technology in one of the biggest epidemics of our times: Alzheimer's, while maintaining ongoing verticals on Digestive Cancer, Stroke, and Infectious diseases.

**Our Team**‍

We are a mix of scientists, entrepreneurs, and inventors based in Oxford and Porto, with a passion for healthcare

Recognized by CB Insights as one of the most promising Digital Health companies in the world and by the Financial Times as a Transformational Business in Healthcare, iLoF has been regularly featured in leading outlets like Tech Crunch, Wired, and Sifted and listed as a rising star in AI-Driven Drug Discovery, Health Screening & Data Analytics.

**Stuff you wanna know**:
**What we value**
- A** Be Kind** attitude is the main guideline within iLoF
- A hand in the hammer and another free to support your co-workers as a **true team player**:

- An Honest and Egoless attitude towards discussions and critics **working in good faith**:

- The braveness to **speak your heart** in any situation
- Through words or actions be always sure to **make a difference **at any moment
- Understanding that everyone has an identity outside of work and must be respected (**work-life balance**)
- Be proud to drive your responsibilities to success and help others do the same, embracing **ownership**

**Perks**
- A bright great experience at a promising high-tech startup company
- A stimulating atmosphere with room for creativity - fast-paced, fun, and energetic startup with a friendly culture
- Weekly happy hours with amazing food and drinks
- Free coffee and snacks
- The opportunity to work with a world class, talented team: and potentially change healthcare as we know it for millions of patients living with complex diseases around the globe ‍️