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Job opening: Physical Scientist

Salary: $80 665 - 125 685 per year
City: Boulder
Published at: Aug 14 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Department of Commerce ranked top 5 in the 2023 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government amongst large agencies for the 12th year in a row! The ranking showcases the Department's continued commitment to increasing our employee engagement, employee satisfaction, and positive perceptions towards diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. This notice is issued under direct-hire authority to recruit new talent to occupations for which NIST has a severe shortage of candidates.

Duties

Research and develop magnetic materials for radio-frequency and microwave-frequency device applications. Using bottom-up and top-down approaches, synthesize magnetic materials and incorporate these materials into composites to produce engineered electromagnetic response at relevant frequencies. Characterize the AC and DC permeability of these materials across a range of magnetic fields strengths and temperatures. Develop fabrication schemes for patterning nanocomposite materials on length scales relevant for chip-scale devices, and construct test circuits for performing measurements at these scales.

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: 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 B. 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. AND 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 experience in characterization of magnetic materials for high-frequency applications, experience with magnetometry at variable magnetic field and temperature conditions, designing and testing of magnetic devices, and modeling and simulation of magnetic materials, such as magnetic finite element methods (FEM) OR Master's or equivalent graduate degree OR A combination of graduate education and specialized experience as defined in the additional requirements 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 Applied Physics Division 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg, MD 20899 US
  • Name: Tailor Thompson
  • Email: [email protected]

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