Postdoctoral Fellow; PREP

Job Title

PREP Research Associate

Salary: $80,000 - $89,000 per year

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. NIST recognizes that its research staff may wish to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest, thus requires that such institutions must be the recipient of a PREP award. The PREP program requires staff from a wide range of backgrounds to work on scientific research in many areas.

Employees in this position will perform technical work that underpins the scientific research of the collaboration.

Chip-Scale Atomic Devices

• The work entails the design, fabrication and testing of compact devices based on atomic spectroscopy and microfabrication, including atomic clocks, magnetic sensors, current and voltage references, temperature references, wavelength references and photonically-integrated light-atom systems. Devices are designed to achieve specific performance goals such as frequency stability and magnetic sensitivity, fabricated using micromachining of silicon, glass and other substrates, and tested using intrinsic stability/sensitivity noise measurements or by comparison with other clocks/sensors.

• Designing instruments to realize/measure frequency, magnetic field, current, voltage, temperature, or wavelength
• Constructing instruments using micromachining processes and other laboratory fabrication techniques
• Assessing the performance of instruments by taking data related to their stability and sensitivity
• Presenting results at internal meetings and occasional meetings with external stakeholders
• Writing research papers describing device design, construction and operation
• Ensuring that results, protocols, software, and documentation have been archived or otherwise transmitted to the larger organization

• U.S. Citizen Preferred
• Required:
  
  PhD in atomic physics, quantum information science, laser science or related field
• Required:
  
  Experience using lasers in the laboratory
• Preferred:
  Experience with atomic spectroscopy
• Preferred:
  Experience with cleanroom fabrication of silicon devices
• Preferred:
  Experience with analog and digital electronics
• Preferred:
  Knowledge of one or more programming languages such as Python, Matlab or Lab View
• Preferred:
  Strong oral and written communication skills

The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.

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