Research Associate - Montréal, Canada - McGill University

McGill University

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Montréal, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

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Job summary/duties:

Duties related to the laboratory infrastructure:

Managing a state-of-the-art multi-million-dollar laboratory infrastructure
Sorting, allocating, and monitoring the laboratory infrastructure include the test and measurement laboratory equipment and the testbed infrastructure.
Training of the graduate students on highly specialized equipment including but not limited to highspeed arbitrary waveform generator, bit error rate tester, realtime oscilloscope, vector network analyzer, automated testbed infrastructure.
Ordering, receiving, unpacking, and verifying various pieces of equipment related to the laboratory.
Maintaining good recordkeeping practices while adhering to quality and safety programs

Duties related to research and development:

Project manager for ongoing research program including industrial collaboration and internal collaborations.
Teach and train graduate students about photonic integrated circuits, optical processors, and quantum computing.
Simulate, design, and experimentally validate photonic integrated circuits for optical computing.
Manage multiple design fabrication tape outs per year. Review and validate graduate students' designs to ensure they meet design specifications and fabrication requirements.
Develop and manage an open access process design kit (PDK) belonging to the group, aimed at disseminating our developed building blocks to the research and industry communities.
Develop and assist in the writing of grant proposals to secure funding.
Publish work in highranking scientific peerreviewed journals to share findings and disseminate knowledge within the scientific community.
Submit work to reputable international conferences to disseminate research, receive feedback from peers, and initial possible international collaboration with researchers.
Review manuscripts and conference papers submitted by graduate students to provide constructive feedback and ensure highquality research.

Qualifications:

The appointee will have a doctoral degree or equivalent educational credential and at least five years research experience, appointed to conduct research independently or as a member of a research team.

Other qualifications:

Knowledge of French and English:

McGill University is an English-language university where day to day duties may require English communication both verbally and in writing.

The level of English required for this position has been assessed at a level # 4 on a scale of 0-4.

Hourly Salary:
$32.98