Microsoft Research@198 Residency Program – Optical Researcher Cambridge, East of England, England
Microsoft
Full Time
Cambridge, East of England, England
58272 - 102403 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work. At Microsoft Research@198 we undertake world-leading, ambitious projects to transform the world through deep innovation. Your research will help to create disruptive solutions at the intersection of the modern cloud and AI as you collaborate with our researchers and engineers at 198 and across Microsoft product teams.
We are currently looking to hire a resident (2-year fixed term researcher) with expertise in optical super resolution techniques and/or materials science to join our optical storage team.
As an Optical Researcher, you will join a leading and highly multidisciplinary industrial research team and you will work with team members towards revolutionizing the future sustainable cloud infrastructure. In this stimulating environment you will have the opportunity to accelerate your career growth, develop deep skills in optical storage and make an impact at a Microsoft scale.
By creating novel technologies, sharing our advancements through publications, and building partnerships with leading academic groups worldwide, we foster a connected work environment. Details about some of the team’s projects can be found here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/cloud-systems-futures/. For further information about the position, please feel free to email: [email protected].
Responsibilities
- You will drive cutting-edge research in super resolution microscopy techniques and luminescent materials for diffraction unlimited optical data storage .
- You will collaborate with members of our multidisciplinary research group to contribute to project objectives
- You will adopt a growth mindset attitude and be prepared to work within a rapidly changing research environment, while taking a rigorous and systematic approach to design and experimentation.
- You will envisage, architect, explore new designs and take a hands-on approach to creating research prototypes
- You will share your findings with the broader team, product groups and publish in high-impact conferences and journals.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- PhD degree (or on-track to complete) in one of the following fields: Optics, Photonics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials, Chemistry or equivalent experience.
- Impact driven mindset and ability to work and learn in a collaborative environment.
- Track record in relevant research as evidenced by publications in top-tier venues.
- Committed nature with effective oral and written communication skills.
Preferred qualifications (one or more of the following):
- Deep understanding of super resolution techniques, e.g., stimulated emission depletion (STED), and the curiosity to discover how they might impact optical data storage.
- Chemistry or materials science knowledge to identify candidate luminescent materials for diffraction unlimited optical data storage – and the knowledge to source, prepare and characterize them.
- Be an experimentalist with track-record of designing and building super-resolution fluorescence microscopes from scratch.
- Expertise in 3D imaging with aberration correction.
- Expertise in computational microscopy, image processing, error correction.
Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/
Redmond, United States
Satya Nadella
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Computer Hardware Development
1975
