PHY-2610 · Staff Scientist 4

Staff Scientist, Temporal Metrology

Design measurement and reconciliation methods for clocks and instruments that cannot be assumed to share an event order.

Public record · JOB-PHY-2610
Directorate
Field Dynamics
Location
Precision Instrumentation Laboratory1160 Continuity Way
Workplace
on campus
Employment
regular
Base salary
$156,000–$214,000
Travel
Up to 15%
Access
Research Access 3
Posting status
Open

The role

What you will be responsible for.

  • Operate optical, microwave, and transfer-standard systems across campus reference points.
  • Develop uncertainty budgets for records assembled after asynchronous acquisition.
  • Investigate ordering ambiguities without modifying original instrument evidence.

Required qualifications

  • PhD or equivalent experience in physics, electrical engineering, or metrology.
  • Hands-on experience with precision timing or frequency systems.
  • Strong statistical treatment of correlated uncertainty.

Preferred experience

  • Optical-clock or time-transfer experience.
  • Experience with distributed scientific facilities.

Operating conditions

Occasional overnight comparison runs.

Recorded event order may be revised after formal reconciliation.

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