Senior Advanced Photonic Fabrication Research Scientist - 323

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in a team of physicists and optical engineers supporting the development of commercial and research photonic components for quantum computing 
• Develop and refine novel fabrication methods for the production of unique and deployable photonic devices
• Fabricate photonic components for manipulation of light across the spectrum
• Gather technical requirements, turn them into action plans, and ensure the components and systems meet the requirements 
• Participate in metrology and optical testing to optimize fabrication processes and device designs.

You Must Have:

• PhD Degree minimum
• Minimum4+ years’ experience (advanced degree inclusive) in nano/micro-fabrication
• Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person. defined as, U.S. citizen permanent resident or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status
• Due to national security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government, candidates for this position must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.

We Value:

• Ph.D. in Optics, Physics, Applied Physics, or a related field 
• 3+ years of experience after PhD (postdoc, industry research or manufacturing, etc.)
• Experience with fabrication of photonic devices, with an emphasis onmetasurfaces or other highaspect ratio structures.
• Experience with fabrication process development including film deposition, etching (wet and dry), lithographic techniques (especially EBL), and metrology (e.g. FIB/SEM, AFM, profilometry, ellipsometry, microscopy, etc.)
• Experience with photonic simulation tools (Lumerical, RSoft, or similar tools for guided mode solvers, FDTD, FEM, or RCWA)
• Experience with optical testing of photonic devices
• Experience with scientific coding and data analysis and visualization, and familiarity with software tools like MATLAB, Python, Mathematica, Origin, Igor, etc.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to concisely and accurately convey complex information to team members with diverse technical experience, published results within your field of research.
• Experience in micro-optical systems directing and manipulating visible coherent light
• Experience working remotely with a development team
• Broad understanding of optical principles and practices and intimate knowledge and experience applying this knowledge to projects 
• Experience with engineering change documentation; ability to work from assembly drawings, schematics, wiring diagrams, sketches and other written, visual and oral instructions 

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