Department: Knight Campus
FTE: 0.25-0.49
Terms: Fall Winter Spring
Academic Year: 2025-26 and 2026-27
Duties:
The Cleanroom Technical Assistant will help support the Knight Campus Cleanroom research core facility (located in Knight Campus Building 1) through providing advanced technical and organizational support to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operation of equipment and workspaces in the facility. This role focuses on assisting users with instrument training, as well as training users on safe laboratory practices in compliance with institutional safety standards for controlled cleanroom work areas. The role is also expected to help with routine cleaning of shared equipment and workspaces, basic lab maintenance, instrument repair/upkeep, and helping organize and stock laboratory supplies. This position will work closely with Cleanroom Engineer to maintain a high standard of laboratory readiness, cleanliness, and equipment functionality.
Preferred Qualifications:
Prior experience working with micro or nano device fabrication equipment, Chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering or electrical engineering background.
-Experience using semiconductor device testing equipment (profilometers, probe stations, microscopes, and other electrical testing platforms).
-Experience using reflected light microscopes and interferometers.
-Experience working with shared instrumentation in core facilities.
-Experience using contact lithography and/or direct-write lithography systems.)
-Experience with hazardous waste clean-up and training others with basic laboratory safety practices.
Preference for students who have taken KCGIP courses and labs on semiconductor processing and design of experiments.
Application Procedure:
Submit a resume and transcript containing a list of Physics, Chemistry, or Engineering courses completed and grades received (unofficial copies of transcripts are acceptable). Provide contact information for at least one person who can comment on your skills and experience using fabrication equipment (lithography tools, etching tools, deposition tools) and/or semiconductor device characterization equipment and shared instrumentation in core facilities, and any other preferred qualifications for this position. Please submit all application materials to Kurt Langworthy: klangwor@uoregon.edu with “Job Application” in the subject line. Finalists may be interviewed and evaluated based on their performance and responses.
Application Email: klangwor@uoregon.edu
Deadline Date: Monday, 04-20-26
Open Until Filled: Yes
Open Until Filled, Review Begins On: Tuesday, 04-21-26
Contact Information:
Kurt Langworthy
(541) 346-3660