Research Technician

About the role

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Electronics. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.

Responsibilities

• Support the New Product Development team in Carlsbad to conduct shelf-life, stability, and materials compatibility testing of organosilicon and organometallic precursors used in thin films deposition processes.
• Carry out routine, hands-on laboratory tasks to support various materials testing programs, including materials compatibility studies, shelf-life studies, and stability tests with organosilicon and organometallic chemicals.
• Operate and maintain Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Thermal Screening Unit (TSU) and other lab equipment including ovens, inert purge boxes and gloveboxes.
• Support project leads in data analysis, compiling of results, and drafting of monthly/quarterly highlights or technical summaries for internal stakeholders and customers.
• Maintain and update standard operating procedures (SOPs) and work instructions.
• Manage sample traceability and data integrity (electronic lab notebooks