Nanofabrication Engineer - Open Rank (Entry-Junior Level)-EOSL-Onsite

Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.   

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Project/Unit Description

The Photonics & Microelectronics Division (PMD) in the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory (EOSL) of GTRI is searching for an early-career Nanofabrication Engineer willing and able to work on multiple projects within the Division, as the need arises, including laboratory experimentation as well as modeling of experimental data. The Photonics and Microelectronics Division currently performs advanced research and development that involves the development & packaging of new materials and micro-electronic device technologies, spacecraft hardware, photonic integrated circuits, and RF/millimeter-wave devices. The components and sub-systems are used in a variety of systems and applications, primarily for aerospace and national security platforms. The successful candidate will support the GTRI research portfolio in the areas of advanced materials fabrication and characterization, advanced packaging and reliability, thin film deposition, and heterogeneous material integration and testing.

The PMD team is skilled in the synthesis and deposition of advanced materials and semiconductors; materials physics and chemistry; weathering of materials in space; design, simulation, fabrication, packaging and measurement of RF and photonic ICs and subsystems, fiber optics & comms, and building optical & RF subsystems with both discrete components & ICs. PMD is a leader in the Georgia Tech Microelectronics community as well as the Space Technology community. GTRI offers a dynamic, collaborative environment, where research faculty generate new ideas for projects to serve the needs of the warfighter, with opportunities to perform on projects outside their division to broaden their knowledge & experience.

Job Purpose

Nanofabrication research engineer to research and contribute to the design, fabrication, synthesis, characterization, packaging, and testing of nano-fabricated devices and structures for projects such as DNA data storage, quantum sensing and computing, and microelectronics. This may also include delivery of prototype devices. This position involves close collaboration with a highly technical team of research leaders to accomplish task and program objectives, contribute technically to proposal ideation, and conceive and execute internal research efforts refining core fabrication processes and capabilities. Fabrication responsibilities range from process design and supervision to full clean-room implementation, and will utilize a wide range of bulk and micro/nano synthesis/fabrication tools and develop novel techniques to create novel materials, devices, and structures with new properties.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform basic tests, experiments, calculations, and/or simulations to determine physical parameters/properties and behaviors of materials and systems and conduct basic data analysis on the results of measurements and/or simulations
• Perform literature surveys on research topics
• Generate documentation of experiments and results

Additional Responsibilities

• Perform thin film deposition of advanced engineered materials.
• Growth/deposition of inorganic/organic thin film materials by various a ra