Senior Nanofabrication & Nanoelectronics Scientist

Sandia National Laboratories; Livermore (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories seeks a motivated R&D staff member (Materials Science) to join the Materials Physics department and lead nanoscale device fabrication efforts in cleanroom settings. You will manage the onsite cleanroom and coordinate access to external facilities such as LLNL, LBNL, and Stanford for extended fabrication capabilities.

The role requires collaboration with researchers to develop new fabrication methods and programs, travel to local cleanrooms, and disseminate results

Qualifications

• PhD in Physics, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Extensive experience in cleanroom fabrication, tools, techniques and materials.
• Experience with electronic and photonic device fabrication, testing, and characterization.
• A strong publication record in high impact journals.
• A broad research experience across disciplines.
• Experience writing research proposals.
• Experience working as part of multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate maintenance on cleanroom instruments.
• Manage and maintain safety in fabrication laboratories.
• Educate and oversee the local nanofabrication community.
• Interact with external fabrication facilities to expand access to the user community.
• Develop new fabrication methods for novel microelectronic devices.
• Develop new programmatic directions for utilization of the nanofabrication facilities.
• Travel to local cleanrooms to perform fabrication operations not available at SNL.
• Perform materials and device fabrication research in collaboration with other researchers.
• Collaborate with other researchers on the development of research proposals.
• Publish and present work at relevant conferences and in scientific journals.

Skills

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Proposal writing

Research communication

Education

PhD in Physics, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

Cleanroom instruments

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories seeks a motivated R&D staff member (Materials Science) to join the Materials Physics department and lead nanoscale device fabrication efforts in cleanroom settings. You will manage the onsite cleanroom and coordinate access to external facilities such as LLNL, LBNL, and Stanford for extended fabrication capabilities.

The role requires collaboration with researchers to develop new fabrication methods and programs, travel to local cleanrooms, and disseminate results