NIST works with industry and science to advance innovation and improve quality of life. We're looking for a Physical Scientist to join our team! This notice is issued under direct-hire authority to recruit new talent to occupations for which NIST has a severe shortage of candidates.

Duties

The Nanofabrication Process Engineer is responsible for process support and development, user training, equipment troubleshooting, and repair of nanofabrication and semiconductor processing systems in a state-of-the-art nanofabrication user facility with researchers from academia, government, and private industry. This position requires extensive work in a class 100 cleanroom environment, with the selectee wearing full-body cleanroom attire, including gown, boots, hood, facemask, safety glasses, and gloves. Duties include: Serve as Nanofabrication Engineer, performing duties in support of the CNST NanoFab multi user facility mission. Support acquisition, installation, facilitization, maintenance and operation of semiconductor process equipment. Assist laboratory users with equipment training, operation and processes. Provide oversight of field service engineers. Perform calibration and optimization of semiconductor processing equipment. Track of equipment performance and uptime statistics; assure a safe operating status of process equipment and laboratory infrastructure. Support the NanoFab equipment and maintenance operations. Work with vendors to update equipment software and hardware as needed to extend equipment lifetimes. Develop, optimize and document semiconductor equipment maintenance standard operating procedures and nanofabrication processes. Troubleshoot and repair semiconductor process equipment. Perform semiconductor process gas cylinders changes. Work with and troubleshoot high-vacuum technology equipment, including vacuum chambers, vacuum pumps, flanges and perform leak testing. Work with wet bench processing. Develop standard operating procedures for the CNST NanoFab equipment. Develop user training documents and presentations in areas of thin film deposition, reactive ion etching, lithography, and nanoscale metrology. Develop, perform, and document equipment qualification processes, measurements, and analysis using nanofabrication equipment and metrology tools. Work with the NanoFab equipment team to ensure timely repairs and having a sufficient spare parts inventory. Work with NIST facilities to coordinate outages to minimize impact on NanoFab operations. Support of NanoFab daily operations by supervising NanoFab interns. Assist with procurement, installation, start up and processing development of new equipment. Provide support for equipment acquisition, installation, facilitization, troubleshooting and maintenance activities. This involves, working with NIST purchasing and facilities teams to coordinate new equipment purchase, delivery, facility planning and implementation, and installation. Provide support in formulating procurement packages and work orders. Represent the CNST NanoFab at regional and national conferences. Attend nanoscale device fabrication-based conferences, workshops and short courses. Keep abreast of emerging technologies to ensure program development will not prematurely become obsolete.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Suitable for Federal employment
• Transcripts Must be submitted
• Bargaining Unit Position: No

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. OR Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In addition to the basic requirements, applicants must also have 1 year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-9 (ZP-II at NIST) level. Specialized experience is defined as hands on equipment and processing experience in: equipment maintenance and fabrication methods in areas of thin film deposition, etching, lithography and metrology; and working in a multi user class 100 or better cleanroom facility with researchers across wide range of skill levels. The selectee shall have demonstrated hands on experience in: operation, installation, facilitization, troubleshooting, and maintenance of semiconductor process equipment; micro and nanofabrication processes and techniques in areas of lithography, deposition, etching, and metrology, including sputter deposition, electron beam and thermal evaporation, deep silicon plasma etching, maskless laser based lithography, profilometry, ellipsometry, and wafer dicing; and high-vacuum technology, vacuum chambers, vacuum pumping systems, flanges and leak testing; and wet bench processing. OR 3 years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR Combination of education and experience Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done. We will credit all qualifying volunteer experience in your application. The qualification requirements in this vacancy announcement are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook. Applicant Reconsideration

Education

This position has an education requirement. Transcripts must be submitted to validate that the education requirement has been met. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. However, an official copy will be required prior to a final offer of employment.

Education completed outside of the U.S. must be evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that it is comparable to education received in accredited institutions in the U.S. Click here to view a listing of accredited organizations from the Department of Education's website. A copy of the foreign education evaluation (containing the results with a course by course listing) is required with your application.

Contacts

• Address Physical Measurement Laboratory 100 Bureau Drive Building 220/Room B262 Mail Stop 8400 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 US
• Name: Jessica Leopold
• Phone: 301-975-5760
• Email: [email protected]