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Optical Physicist-Nanophotonics

Job in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, 05544, USA
Listing for: Physical Sciences Inc.
Full Time position
Listed on 2025-12-02
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Research Scientist, Electronics Engineer
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Physical Sciences Inc, an employee-owned company, located just north of Boston in Andover, seeks well-qualified candidates for positions on our research team. The optical materials scientist position is intended for an individual who is interested in supporting and leading programs devoted to the design, development, and use of optical and photonic nanostructures and metamaterials. An ideal candidate should be interested in a career devoted to applied research and development with strong experimental, hardware, and leadership skills, and should be interested in maturing technologies from concept to prototype.

We seek both entry level (new graduate) and intermediate level (5 to 10 years of experience outside of academia) applicants interested in a dynamic combination of design, laboratory, and field work. The following technical skills are relevant:

  • Optical metamaterial fabrication
  • Clean room fabrication, including lithography and deposition techniques, such as nano-imprint and additive manufacturing
  • Ability to work with subcontractors and commercial foundries
  • Electromagnetic simulation such FDTD or FEA
  • Emerging techniques such as neural networks, adjoint optimization, and machine learning
  • Experience with photonic foundries including simulation, layout, design rule checking, and process design kit (PDK) use and creation for material systems such as silicon, silicon nitride, or group III/V semiconductors
  • Optical and electronic characterization
  • Including but not limited to spectroscopy, metrology, calorimetry
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Physical Sciences Inc, an employee-owned company, located just north of Boston in Andover, seeks well-qualified candidates for positions on our research team. The optical materials scientist position is intended for an individual who is interested in supporting and leading programs devoted to the design, development, and use of optical and photonic nanostructures and metamaterials. An ideal candidate should be interested in a career devoted to applied research and development with strong experimental, hardware, and leadership skills, and should be interested in maturing technologies from concept to prototype.

We seek both entry level (new graduate) and intermediate level (5 to 10 years of experience outside of academia) applicants interested in a dynamic combination of design, laboratory, and field work. The following technical skills are relevant:
  • Optical metamaterial fabrication
  • Clean room fabrication, including lithography and deposition techniques, such as nano-imprint and additive manufacturing
  • Ability to work with subcontractors and commercial foundries
  • Photonic design
  • Electromagnetic simulation such FDTD or FEA
  • Emerging techniques such as neural networks, adjoint optimization, and machine learning
  • Experience with photonic foundries including simulation, layout, design rule checking, and process design kit (PDK) use and creation for material systems such as silicon, silicon nitride, or group III/V semiconductors
  • Optical and electronic characterization
  • Including but not limited to spectroscopy, metrology, calorimetry
Successful Candidates Will Have The Opportunities To Contribute To Ongoing Programs And Develop New Programs In The Following Applications And Technical Areas
  • Optical and RF metamaterials
  • Flat optics and optical systems
  • Optical detectors and sensors
  • Photovoltaics
  • Quantum information
  • Atomic and quantum sensors
  • Integrated photonics
Candidates should be highly motivated individuals with a strong desire to develop independent research programs that draw on our team’s existing efforts and capabilities. Strong verbal and written communication skills are required as the candidate will participate in program reporting, professional presentations, and proposal writing.

PhD or Masters Degree in Physics, Applied Physics, Optics, Electrical Engineering, Material Science or related field is required.

US Citizenship is required.

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