Postdoctoral Fellow

Job Details

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

Salary: $75,000 - $89,000

PREP Research Associate

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Professional Research Experience Program (PREP).

Research Title: PREP0004208 – 672.03 - OTA Communications Measurements with Traceable Signal and Channel at mmWave Frequencies

The work will entail: The RF Technology Division of the Communications Technology Laboratory at NIST is seeking a qualified candidate for a postdoctoral position working with traceable measurement systems for wide bandwidth modulated signals.

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Precision electromagnetic field measurements and uncertainty evaluation.
• Development of multiport OTA measurement approaches, including assessment of measurement uncertainty.
• Instrument automation
• Accurate modulated-signal analysis of signals.
• Analysis of data and measurements to provide complete traceability path to primary standards.
• Experimental design to create repeatable test conditions that best expose devices to a traceably known condition.
• Present and publish technical results.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field
• Research experience involving one or more of the following areas: RF measurement, antenna design/characterization, signal processing, EMI/EMC Testing.
• RF Measurement experience
• Antenna design/characterization
• Signal processing
• Experience with microwave electronics simulation software (e.g. HFSS and ADS) is desirable
• Experience with LabView, MATLAB, Python, other measurement automation and analysis software
• Mechanical and electrical design and fabrication capability is desirable
• Metrology and uncertainty analysis experience