Researcher/Scientist IV | Wyant College of Optical Sciences

Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; state and optional retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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Duties & Responsibilities:

• Engage in experimental research in quantum enhanced photonic information processing with applications to continuous variable quantum information processing, with minimal supervision.
• Participate in scholarly discussions with colleagues on new ideas and concepts, work closely with theorists and experimentalists, author journal papers and conference articles, participate in government review meetings, and give talks and seminars on technical topics.
• The candidate will have the opportunity, if they wish, to participate in writing grant proposals for new projects.
• Supervise undergraduate/MS/PhD students.
• Additional duties as required.

• The successful candidate should hold, by the time of employment, a Ph.D. degree in Optics, Physics/Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience is required.

• Demonstrated scientific and technical experience in some of the aforementioned areas.

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