NIST works with industry and science to advance innovation and improve quality of life. We're looking for a Physicist 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

- Design, simulate, layout, consult with the fabrication team, and cryogenically test and demonstrate the performance of superconducting circuits for NIST mission-critical applications. - Lead collaborative research teams to develop quantum circuits with advanced performance that operate at frequencies up to 100 GHz. - Create project plans, design experiments, improve test infrastructure, and develop new measurement techniques to demonstrate and characterize circuit performance. - Collaborate with and mentor graduate students and postdocs. - Communicate and collaborate with NIST researchers, as well as with industry, academic, and other non-NIST government researchers to advance programs to assist US industry including the National Quantum Initiative (U.S. QIS programs). - Write proposals. - Present and publish research results and measurement best practices.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: A. Degree: physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics. Or B. Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In either A or B above, the courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound. And In addition to the above basic requirements, applicants must possess one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level (ZP-III ) at NIST. Specialized experience is defined as: - Experience with superconductivity - Experience with Josephson junctions - Quantum computing - Superconducting device simulation, layout and fabrication - Microwave and millimeter wave circuit simulation and testing - Cryogenic millikelvin design and test - Test and data analysis automation - Collaboration on research projects - Writing successful research proposals, presenting results at technical conferences, and publishing technical research results. 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 RF Technology Division 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg, MD 20899 US
• Name: Evelyn Carter-Hopkins
• Phone: 000-000-0000
• Email: [email protected]