HRL's Scaled Nanotechnology department is focused on developing new, multifunctional materials and coatings by controlling nano/micro-scale architecture to tailor properties such as wetting, heat transfer, ice nucleation, surface adhesion, reaction thermodynamics, kinetics, color, and elasticity, using scalable processes to rapidly mature technologies from fundamental discovery to commercial products.
Requirements
- Experience with good lab practices (documentation, safety procedures) is essential.
- Experience in a wet chemistry lab environment and synthesizing chemical compounds in a research environment is desired.
- Experience formulating and/or compounding of commercial products and associated characterization is desired.
- Experience with the use of computer software for data storage, organization, and analysis is also desired.
- Understanding of organic and polymer chemistry and some inorganic chemistry and physics.
- Knowledge of chemical analysis, thermal analysis, optical characterization, and basic computer skills (e.g., spreadsheets & word processing).
- Experience with maintenance of lab equipment is desirable.
Responsibilities
- perform chemical reactions and polymerizations at the benchtop and pilot-scale
- setting up and performing chemical synthesis reactions (organic, sol-gel, polymer, and organometallic chemistry)
- material processing development to produce functional composites
- documenting, analyzing, and reporting experimental results to the project manager
- operation of analytical tools such as DSC, FTIR, UV-VIS, SEM, and TGA and interpretation of the results
- maintenance of stocks and supplies
- monitoring calibration status of lab instruments
Other
- working both independently and on a team
- exercise safe handling of chemicals
- Candidate is expected to work at the Malibu site for 40 h/week.
- U.S. Person Status
- This position must meet export control compliance requirements.
