Scholarship: Fully-Funded
Degree: Ph.D.
Nationality: International Students
Location: USA
Application deadlines: Open until filled
Scholarship Description:
The Physics Department has an opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to participate in cold electronics development for neutrino research. In this role, you will work under the general assignment of the EDG scientific staff and have a high level of interaction with an international and multicultural scientific community.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Play an essential role in the cold electronics system development for DUNE and SBN at Fermilab, ProtoDUNE at CERN and other experiments
- Participate in FPGA related design validation, perform system evaluation, performance characterization and experiment integration tests
- Collaborate and work with all members of the electronic detector group with broad associations with other groups in the laboratory and throughout the world
- Document and disseminate research results through publications and conduct research presentations at meetings and conferences
Available Subjects:
- High energy or nuclear physics, or instrumentation for particle and nuclear physics
Eligibility criteria:
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ph.D. in experimental high energy or nuclear physics, or instrumentation for particle and nuclear physics
- Interest in physics at the intensity frontier
- Manuscript writing and demonstrated track record of publication of research in high quality peer-reviewed journals and presentations
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team-based research environment
- Understanding of system evaluation, performance characterization and experiment integration tests of detector readout and data acquisition system
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Experience in instrumentation development of scientific detector systems
- Experience with detector development: design, construction, testing, operation
- Experience with tracking calorimeter technology (e.g. LArTPC)
- Solid foundation in electronics system design and measurement
- Knowledge of mixed-signal circuits, digital signal processing, modern electronic components and EDA tools for circuit simulation
- Experience with laboratory instrumentation, HDL based FPGA firmware design, simulation, and test
- Familiarity with instrumentation control software development, data acquisition, and data analysis based on C/C++ and Python
- Hands-on problem-solving skills
- Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work in a large international collaboration
Application Procedure:
To apply: https://jobs.bnl.gov/job/upton/postdoc-research-associate-neutrino-physics-and-cold-electronics/3437/8282013280
