Associate Research Scientist (PREP0004233)
U.S. Citizen Preferred
Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Designing, building, maintaining, and using optical measurement systems based on inelastic light scattering
Developing high speed electronic (microwave) measurements, including pulsed, harmonic, sampled and real-time measurement methods using microwave sources, arbitrary waveform generators, and oscilloscopes
Analyze heterogeneous data sources including optical spectra, read- and write-error rate datastreams, real-time and sampled high speed electronic traces.
Analyze temperature-dependent magnetization data using advanced atomistic fitting models
Fabricating magnetoelectronic devices using optical and electron beam lithography, reactive and physical ion etching methods.
Presenting results at internal meetings, and occasional meetings with external stakeholders.
Ensuring that results, protocols, software, and documentation have been archived or otherwise transmitted to the larger organization.
Qualifications
A Ph.D. in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or related field. Several years of post-degree experience in relevant areas preferred.
Experience with the design and fabrication of magnetic nanostructures including magnetron sputter and e-beam evaporative deposition or molecular beam epitaxy, electron-beam and photo-lithography
Experience with characterization tools including SQUID, Ferromagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, MOKE, x-ray reflectometry, secondary-ion mass spectrometry.
Demonstrated experience with micromagnetic simulation tools including MuMAX
Demonstrated experience in temperature-dependent magnetic simulations, in particular atomistic simulations of the temperature-dependence of magnetization
Experience developing novel data acquisition platforms to acquire DC and RF data at scale.
Familiarity with scripting languages including Python and their implementation on GPU clusters for data analysis.
Ability to develop tools needed to analyze large datasets using Python, MATLAB, or similar programming environments.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Track recording of publishing in peer reviewed scientific journals.
Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
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