Postdoctoral Appointee - Stress Diagnostics Microelectronics Packaging, Onsite

Postdoctoral Appointee - Stress Diagnostics for Microelectronics Packaging, Onsite

This postdoctoral position is a temporary position for up to one year, which may be renewed at Sandia's discretion up to five additional years. The PhD must have been conferred within five years prior to employment. Individuals in postdoctoral positions may bid on regular Sandia positions as internal candidates, and in some cases may be converted to regular career positions during their term if warranted by ongoing operational needs, continuing availability of funds, and satisfactory job performance.

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What Your Job Will Be Like:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly productive and collaborative team at Sandia National Laboratories. We are seeking a Postdoctoral Appointee to assist in the development, implementation, demonstration and validation of advanced optical probes and science-based material models for diagnosing stress within microelectronic packaging designs across a wide range of thermal, mechanical, and aging conditions.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

Identify and map material-specific stress reporters in materials, application-relevant simplified test structures, and microelectronic device packages using custom, multimodal hyperspectral imaging techniques

Collaborate closely with the optical design team to understand key instrumentation design principles and to aid in augmenting toolsets

Design test structures to examine stress-reporter sensitivity limits and effective imaging length scales

Aid constitutive modeling efforts through acquisition of relevant datasets and associated data analyses that provide required parameterization inputs to and validation of science-based model frameworks

Present findings at team meetings and to relevant technical managers and funding agencies

Publish research in peer-reviewed journals and present at national conferences; may include opportunities to present at international conferences

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite. Relocation assistance will be provided for those that qualify.

Qualifications We Require:

Ph.D. in Materials Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related field conferred within five years prior to employment with a demonstrated record of high academic achievement

Research experience in developing or advancing material characterization techniques

A strong background in the foundations of polymeric materials and composites, including viscoelasticity, non-equilibrium behavior of glasses, and nonlinear material behavior

A strong background in the foundations of solid mechanics, including strength of materials, continuum mechanics, and mechanics of materials

A strong track record of scientific and/or technical achievements through…