Liquid Crystal Materials Scientist

Looking for a talented and self-motivated Scientist with a strong engineering background to help produce our revolutionary liquid crystal-based electro-optic patterning devices. This is a great opportunity to grow with the company and establish the methods and procedures that will be in place as we scale to production. Liquid crystal, chemistry, and Optics backgrounds preferred with a strong formal background in the processing, development, testing of liquid crystal for electro-optical applications.  The role involves all aspects of characterization of an electro optic device from incoming raw materials to system validation, as well as leading the continuous improvement cycle. The ideal candidate combines practical hands-on experience in liquid crystal formulation, characterization, quality control and continuous improvement focus. We need someone with experience in electro-optics and liquid crystals display technologies, who will accelerate our path to process controls.

 Qualifications:

• Experience with processing, development, and testing of liquid crystals for electro-optical applications.
• Experience with liquid crystal characterization and modeling
• Experience with ASIC design
• Demonstrated success with improvement cycle: from root cause analysis to corrective action
• Experience with optics technologies including imaging, illumination, physical optics
• Experience with electrical characterization: impedance analyzers or IV Curve Tracers
• Experience with signal generation & measurement: time & frequency domain characterization
• Familiarity with optical materials and coatings as well as their manufacturing techniques
• Highly organized with attention to detail
• Effective communication, both verbal and written.
• Must be able to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams.

Requirements:

• Master’s or PhD. in Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, EE, Physics, Optics, Materials Science
• BS with 5+ years of experience in related fields
• Travel requirement up to 15%.

Preferred Experiences:

• Cleanroom operation & contamination control class 10 – class 1000
• Semiconductor fab. processing
• Basic wet bench chemistry
• Opto-mechanical and electronic device testing, especially test automation and data analysis
• LCD (liquid crystal display) manufacturing, processing, formulation
• Optical Materials & Coating design & manufacturing
• Design of diagnostic optical fixtures, Optics concepts (esp. polarization)
• Thin Film Metrology: especially model-fitting techniques e.g. Spectral Reflectance
• Polarization, petrology, and Nomarski DIC (Differential interference contrast) microscopy