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Description
Postdoctoral Research Associate
CHIPS Funded Project
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 and thus requires that such institutions be the recipients 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.
Research Title:
Thermal 3D Magnetic Imaging of Advanced Semiconductor Packages
U.S. Citizen Preferred
The work will entail:
Our multi-disciplinary team at NIST has recently been awarded funding to apply magnetic particle imaging to the remote measurement of temperature within packaged semiconductors. This technology will assist in the thermal characterization and design of advanced packages that have grown increasingly complicated and 3-dimensional. We seek a postdoc to help develop high sensitivity magnetic microscopes, to include approximately 50 % of their effort on instrumentation and 50 % of their effort on software development. For the past 6 years, our team has been developing instrumentation for magnetic nanoparticle characterization/imaging, and the postdoctoral researcher would help extend the capabilities of these instruments and related image reconstruction software specifically for thermal imaging in packaged semiconductor devices. A qualified candidate would have a Ph.D. in physics, physical chemistry, materials science, engineering, or a related field and already have expertise in at least some of the following areas: instrumentation for magnetic or optical measurements, digital acquisition and control, magnetic sensors, magnetic microscopy, image reconstruction and visualization, user interfaces for physics or engineering applications, image classification using machine learning.
Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Helping develop custom-designed magnetic microscopes for thermal imaging
Collaborating with other team members to thermally image semiconductor test packages
Developing user-friendly image reconstruction software based on existing Python code, including machine learning classifications of results
Helping develop software for automated synthesis of magnetic nanoparticle tracers
Presenting results at internal meetings, meetings with external stakeholders, and conferences
Ensuring that results, protocols, software, and documentation have been archived or otherwise transmitted to the larger organization. Helping write journal papers covering project results.
Qualifications
A Ph.D. in physics, physical chemistry, materials science, engineering, or a related field.
3 years of relevant research experience.
Demonstrated experience working with custom electronic, magnetic or optical instrumentation.
Demonstrated experience with data visualization, creating software user interfaces.
Familiarity with the programming languages Python, MATLAB, or LabVIEW.
Familiarity with design tools like SolidWorks or Autodesk Inventor.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
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