Research Engineer

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work‑life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Georgia Tech is a top‑ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top‑ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Atlanta, GA

The Institute for Matter and Systems (IMS) is one of Georgia Tech's Interdisciplinary Research Institutes, dedicated to shaping the future through innovations in materials, devices, and systems. IMS manages Georgia Tech's flagship academic cleanroom and nanofabrication facilities, empowering faculty, students, and collaborators from around the world to explore and build the technologies of tomorrow. These facilities support a wide spectrum of research from foundational discoveries in physics and materials science to next‑generation technologies in areas such as microelectronics, quantum materials, neuromorphic systems, photonics, biomedical devices, and energy solutions.

These are just a few examples of the transformative projects IMS enables through its interdisciplinary mission and world‑class infrastructure.

A Research Engineer I is an independent, hands‑on engineer responsible for operating cleanroom fabrication tools and executing established micro‑ and nano‑fabrication processes. The role involves working across lithography, thin‑film deposition, dry and wet etching, wafer cleaning, electroplating, dicing, wire bonding, and packaging. The engineer will maintain accurate documentation, uphold safety protocols, interact with users, and contribute to efficient, reliable cleanroom operations.

This position provides a strong foundation for advancement into tool ownership, process development, and higher‑level engineering roles.

• Operate cleanroom tools across lithography, deposition, etching, wet processing, plating, dicing, wire bonding, and packaging.
• Perform routine maintenance tasks, baseline checks, and basic calibrations on assigned equipment.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve common tool or process…