Description

Join Us in Making a Difference in the Lives of Those Defending Our Nation!

Why SURVICE?

Come join the SURVICE Engineering mission to protect, enhance, and enable those who defend the United States. Since 1981, we have supported the DoD community, as well as Homeland Security, advanced technologies, environmental, and commercial markets. Our employees have backgrounds in engineering, physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science, acquisition, technical writing, training, and other technical and administrative fields. And many of our personnel have DoD and/or operational military experience. If you're looking for a challenging and rewarding career with a leading organization, come see what we can offer you!

Position

Multispectral Materials Researcher

• Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
• Security Clearance: Active Clearance or Eligible to Obtain - U.S. citizenship required
• Salary: $95,000 - $115,000 Depending on Experience and Education
• Travel: 5%
• Benefits: SURVICE Engineering offers a total rewards package to include competitive salaries, comprehensive insurance options, paid time off, 401k, flexible spending, tuition reimbursement.

Position Summary

SURVICE Engineering is currently seeking a Multispectral Materials Researcher to support our Aberdeen Research Operation. You will accelerate your career and become an integral team member within the defense community.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and processing of advanced polymers composites and investigating optical properties as a function of chemistry, structure, and processing conditions.
• Synthesize and tailor surface functionality of tailored optical additives at-scale for integration into polymer composite materials.
• Utilize spectroscopy and imaging systems to characterize UV, visible, infrared (IR) properties, and radio-frequency (RF) properties.
• Develop/use scripts to efficiently automate experiments and collect/analyze test data.

Minimum Qualifications of Multispectral Materials Researcher
PhD in STEM related field and 3+ years of relevant experience. Exceptional candidates with less experience will be considered. Candidates are not required to possess all qualifications; if you possess some of the desired qualifications, please apply.

• Material Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or related discipline.
• Experience working in a research environment (educational experience allowable)
• Experience processing and characterizing polymeric materials.
• Experience with chemical synthesis of advanced micro/nano particles and tailored surface functionalization's.
• Experience with Python to develop scripts and GUIs to automate experiments and result analysis.
• Experience with material characterization and using spectroscopy to measure UV, visible, IR, and RF; familiarity with color measurements/analysis using CIELAB/L*a*b parameters is desired
• Research experience involving polymer structure-property relationships, scalable polymer composite processing, surface patterning, and experiment automation is preferred.
• SECRET Security Clearance.

About Us

SURVICE Engineering is a nationally recognized, single-source engineering service provider for Government and Industry organizations involved in all phases of the systems engineering process. Our employees are our most valuable asset, and they are proud to have supported the development, testing, analysis, and modeling and simulation (M&S) of many of the major U.S. air, land, and sea combat systems in the field today. They have also contributed their expertise to other vital national defense programs and technologies that involve survivability, cybersecurity, information technology/management, software engineering, unmanned aerial systems (UASs), and metrology/reverse engineering.

SURVICE Engineering is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

For more information, or to apply now, you must go to the website below. Please DO NOT email your resume to us as we only accept applications through our website.

https://survice.applicantpro.com/jobs/4054889-553142.html