美国桑迪亚国家实验室物理学系招聘博士后

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation with major facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Livermore, California. We are a world-class team of scientists, engineers, technologists, post docs, and visiting researchers all focused on cutting-edge technology, ranging from homeland defense, global security, biotechnology, and environmental preservation to energy and combustion research, computer security, and nuclear defense. To learn more, please visit our website at www.sandia.gov.

Sandia National Laboratories is searching for a Postdoctoral Appointee of Physics for the Photonic Microsystems Technologies Department located in Albuquerque, NM. Currently, no security clearance is required for this position.

Department Description
The Photonic Microsystems Technologies Department exploits science and technology at the nano and micro scales to enable advances in systems for national security. Our engagement is with a broad spectrum of technologies and a diverse field of customers with a successful record of maturing technology from concept to laboratory demo to prototype. The department consists of several teams that lead the development and understanding of physical effects across the classical electromagnetic spectrum from ultraviolet to terahertz and the quantum effects associated with silicon electronic devices, atomic and molecular gases, and trapped electrons, atoms and ions. Most significantly, with a strong presence in the Microsystems Engineering Sciences and Applications (MESA) facility and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) and working broadly with other Sandia and external organizations, we fabricate electronic structures and devices that use these effects to achieve new levels of performance at the integrated system level. Core technology areas in the department include nanofabrication of silicon devices; subwavelength, diffractive, and refractive microoptics; 2-D and 3-D photonic crystals; electromagnetic modeling; atomic physics based sensors; miniature atomic inertial navigation sensors; ion-trap and solid-state quantum information science and technology; electron-beam lithography and optical design.

Job Summary
Sandia National Laboratories’ Photonic Microsystems Technologies Department has an opening for a Post-doctoral Appointee to work on two projects developing atom-based sensors and atomic clocks. In one project, we are developing a magnetoencephalography (MEG) system based on an array of highly sensitive atomic magnetometers. This project involves the design, fabrication, and testing of the atomic magnetometers, the construction of the complete MEG system including the magnetometer array, control electronics, and person-sized magnetic shield, and ultimately tests with human subjects. In the second project, we are continuing the development of a highly miniaturized, atomic clock using the hyperfine splitting in trapped Yb ions. To support these two projects, the successful candidate will need to work with a team of physicists and microsystems engineers to research and develop new sensors and microdevices based on AMO physics.

Primary Job Duties
Plans, conceives, conducts, or manages research and development for Sandia’s customers and sponsors. Directs systematic study toward a fuller knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts, and discovers new approaches to achieve goals. Creates new understandings and capabilities by using the scientific method’s hypothesis, test, and evaluation techniques; critical review; or similar engineering research and development methods. Initiates, designs, develops, executes, and evaluates new processes, products, or systems through basic and applied research. Uses engineering principles to research, design, or develop structures, instruments, machines, experiments, processes, systems, theories, or technologies; to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions. Undertakes development and possible technology transfer of solutions, products, principles or technology. Undertakes creative work, making systematic use of investigation or experimentation, to discover or revise knowledge of reality, and uses this knowledge to devise new applications.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Advanced technical degree or significant equivalent experience.
• Technical knowledge and competencies appropriate to the position.
• Thorough knowledge of and applied experience with scientific and engineering methods and with the discipline’s standards for the ethical conduct of research.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience with designing, planning, and executing research, design, and development projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of, and experience with implementing Sandia policies affecting research, design, and development activities, projects, or initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to team across disciplines.

Required
• Advanced technical degree or significant equivalent experience.
• Technical knowledge and competencies appropriate to the position.
• Thorough knowledge of and applied experience with scientific and engineering methods and with the discipline’s standards for the ethical conduct of research.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience with designing, planning, and executing research, design, and development projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of, and experience with, implementing Sandia policies affecting research, design, and development activities, projects, or initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to team across disciplines.

Desired
• Experience building and/or working with atomic clocks or atomic magnetometers.
• Experience with optics and photonics.
• Experience in computer control of complex experiments.
• Minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.2/4.0 and a minimum graduate GPA of 3.5/4.0.

Security Clearance
No clearance required. This position does not currently require a Department of Energy (DOE)-granted security clearance.

Sandia will conduct a pre-employment background review that includes personal reference checks, law enforcement record checks, and employment and education verifications. Further, employees in New Mexico must pass a U.S. Air Force background screen for access to the work site. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause access to be denied or terminated, rendering the inability to perform the duties assigned and resulting in termination of employment.

If hired without a clearance, and one subsequently becomes required or you bid on positions that require a DOE-granted security clearance, a pre-processing background review that includes personal reference checks, law enforcement record and credit checks, and employment and education verifications may be conducted prior to a required federal background investigation. Applicants for DOE-granted security clearances must be U.S. citizens and be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate DOE security clearance as required for the position.