UK: Research Scientist (Nanotechnology)

Research Scientist. c£35K-£45K plus benefits. Our clients require a Research Scientist to join their R&D team to lead cross-functional teams of internal and external personnel in developing advanced optical metrology systems.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan (including formal Design of Experiments
• Execute (including managing personnel and hardware recourses)
• Report (formal reports and presentations) on experimental plans to identify technology needs
• Lead technical review teams to evaluation Market Requirements Documents and formal supplier selections/evaluations
• Provide individual technical contributions as appropriate
• Identify project risk areas and plan to manage any risk
• Work with M&M organisations to ensure orderly, timely and complete transition to manufacturing, including ramping volume suppliers
• Work with Applications engineering to ensure full qualification and evaluation of the product to Market Requirements Document and Customer Evaluations
• Work with Product Support to ensure product is successfully launched

Candidate Requirements:
Experience required:

• Considerable experience in a R&D Program Leadership role developing metrology systems for the semiconductor, solar or scientific industries
• In-depth knowledge of Optical imaging techniques, including broadband illumination, lasers, beam steering optics, fibre optics, cameras etc
• In-depth knowledge of metrology error and noise sources, and the design and analysis techniques required to manage those error sources
• Experience with Zemax or other design/analysis programmes
• Strong knowledge of modern optical manufacturing and design methods