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SURVICE Engineering Optical and Spectroscopy Researcher in Adelphi, Maryland
115000-135000 per year | Posted 10-Sep-2024 (EST) | Adelphi, MD, USA | Salary | Full Time
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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
Optical and Spectroscopy Researcher
Location: Adelphi, Maryland
Security Clearance: Active Clearance or Eligible to Obtain - U.S. citizenship required
Salary: $115,000 - $135,000 Depending on Experience and Education
Travel: 10%
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 Optical and Spectroscopy 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
Establish optics and spectroscopy capabilities for the study of various micro-organism outputs, such as bioluminescence.
Design and optimize protocols for experimental analysis and implement tests to evaluate the performance of micro-organism expression.
Execute experiments to support biotechnology workflows in optical and spectroscopy data collection.
Perform analysis on large, collected data sets.
Work closely with internal subject matter experts to meet project deliverables.
Prepare and present presentations and written documents summarizing efforts.
Interact with other government agencies, universities, industry, and facility personnel in the execution of complex research and development objectives.
Laboratory work and potentially field work to include set up and experimental development of spectroscopy and optical systems for the characterization of micro-organism outputs.
Optimize protocols for the collection of experimental data.
Handle micro-organisms, including bacteria, yeast, fungi, and other organisms.
Provide support on the analysis and interpretation of data.
Work on an inter-disciplinary team towards field-ready capabilities.
Managing schedule and directing work to meet deadlines
Comply with policies on record-keeping and distribution limits for data and technical information.
Prepare and present presentations and written documents summarizing efforts in Government format for Form 1 approval (process of instruction provided by COR as GFI).
Upon TO COR request, Contractor personnel shall present the information to staff, universities, private corporations, research institutes, national laboratories, or other Government research centers.
Participate in programmatic and technical meetings, both virtually and in-person.
Occasional travel to other lab sites and to perform field testing
Minimum Qualifications of Optical and Spectroscopy Researcher
Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Chemistry, or Engineering and 5+ 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.
Experience in the setup of analytical instrumentation for experimental analysis, specifically spectroscopy and optical signal processing
Strong data analysis skills with experience in processing quantitative data sets
Experience documenting experimental and analytical procedures, methods, results, and conclusions
Sole US citizenship with a SECRET security clearance OR willingness to obtain and maintain a 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.