NIST Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) Job Opportunities

Job opportunities for the GU/NIST PREP program will be posted here.

  • If you are interested in one of these positions, please send an email with the subject “Job Enquiry PREP000XXXX” to GUNISTPREP@georgetown.edu, where PREP000XXXX is the job number noted below.
  • Please send your CV and a short cover letter explaining your suitability for the position.
  • Please combine your documents into a single document in PDF format.
  • As of 14 March 2025, all positions listed in the Available section, are still open.

Available Positions

  1. PREP0003196 – Materials Research Engineer (CHIPS Project: Accurate Cure Kinetics, Stress, Mechanical Properties and Warpage Measurements for Next-Generation Microelectronics Packaging under Device Relevant Conditions) (Post-Doc) Download Information Here (Posted 21 March 2025)
  2. PREP0003170 – Standards Development for Atom Probe Tomography (Post-Doc) Download Information Here (Posted 10 March 2025)
  3. PREP0003055 – Perception Performance of Robotic Systems – Bin picking (Bachelors or Masters) Download Information Here (Posted 7 February 2025)
  4. PREP0003032 – Staff Scientist (Post-Doc) Download Information Here (Posted 29 January 2025)
  5. PREP0003030 –  GIS Research Associate: Community Resilience (Post Grad) Download Information Here (Posted 28 Jan 2025)
  6. PREP0003013 – Postdoctoral Fellow-Research Chemist (Post-Doc) Download Information Here (Posted 21 Jan 2025)
  7. PREP0002996 – Postdoctoral Fellow-Research Chemist (Post-Doc) Download Information Here (Posted 21 Jan 2025)
  8. PREP0002943 –  Nanocalorimetry for Semiconductors and Semiconductor Process Metrology and Powder Diffraction SRM Development (Post-Doc) Download information here (Posted 10 Dec 2024)
  9. PREP0002679 –  Sensing and Perception Systems Group (Post-Bac) Download information here (Posted 5 August 2024)
  10. PREP0002652 – Engineering Technician – Robotic Perception (Post-Bac) Download information here (Posted 5 August 2024)
  11. PREP0002689 – Perception performance of Robotic Systems Project (Post-Bac) Download information here (Posted 30 July 2024)
  12. PREP0002432 – Sustainbility-Resilience Framework Fellow (Graduate Student) Download information here (Posted 3 May 2024)
  13. PREP0002174 – PREP Research Associate CHIPS Funded Project in the Policy & Integration Office (Undergraduate student). Download information here. (Posted 15 February 2024)
  14. PREP0002150 – Perception Performance of Robotic Systems (Post-Bachelor, Post-Master or Graduate Student). Download information here. (Posted 6 February 2024)

  • PREP0003120 – Computer Programmer (Undergrad Summer Internship) (Posted 21 February 2025)
  • PREP0002983 –  Advancing Power Electronics with Defect Morphology (Post-Doc) (Posted 4 Jan 2025)
  • PREP0003031 – Staff Researcher (Post-Doc) (Posted 28 Jan 2025)
  • PREP0002892 –  Rapid surface particle and impurity detection and quantification at a wafer scale (Post-Doc) (Posted 5 Nov 2024)
  • PREP0002865 –  Senior Materials Modeler – High-Precision Materials Property Databases Development (Post-Doc) (Posted 24 September 2024)
  • PREP0003033 – Staff Scientist (Post-Doc) (Posted 29 January 2025)
  • PREP0003084 – Combined DSC-Raman of Multicomponent Semicrystalline Polymer Systems (Post-Doc) (Posted 12 February 2025)
  • PREP0002964 –  Research Software Engineer (Post-Doc)  (Posted 17 Dec 2024)
  • PREP0002758 –  Shear Induced Suppression of Crystallization (Post-Doc) (Posted 28 August 2024)
  • PREP0001851 Circular Economy of Plastics (Post-Doc). (Posted 17 September 2023)
  • PREP0002385 – PREP Research Associate Synthetic Biology Technician (Post-Master). (Posted 17 April 2024)
  • PREP0002567 – Post Doc Research Associate in Fire Metrology (Post-Doc) (Posted 10 June 2024)
  • PREP0002571 –  Development of High-Sensitivity IR Spectroscopy for Proteins and Gene Delivery Systems (Post-Doc) (Posted 13 June 2024)
  • PREP0002596 –  Nanocalorimetry for Semiconductors and Semiconductor Process Metrology (Post-Doc) (Posted 5 August 2024)
  • PREP0002678 –  Post Doctoral Research Assistant in  Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy  (Post-Doc) (Posted 5 August 2024)
  • PREP0002745 – Evaluation of 3D sensors for automation applications (SURF/EXT) (Undergrad Student) (Posted 15 August 2024)
  • PREP0002613 – Non-targeted analysis of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (Graduate Student) (Posted 23 August 2024) 
  • PREP0002716 –  Bayesian Statistical Methods for Applications in Metrology (Post-Doc) (Posted 2 August 2024)
  • PREP0002533 – IR Imaging Analysis of Micro/Nanoplastics and Polymer Films (Post-Doc) (Posted 7 June 2024)
  • PREP0002403 – Thermal Magnetic Levitation-Based Density Characterization for Plastics Recycling (Post-Doc). (Posted 23 April 2024)
  • PREP0002709–  Web Content & Analytics Associate (Post-Bac) (Posted 1 August 2024)
  • PREP0002598 – Empirical Analysis of Emerging Technologies for 5G/6G RAN Intelligent Control (Post-Doc) (Posted 10 July 2024)
  • PREP0002324 – Bayesian Statistical Methods for Applications in Metrology (Post-Doc). (Posted 25 March 2024)
  • PREP0002663 – Carbon Nanotube Processing and Separations Research (Post-Doc)  (Posted 29 July 2024)
  • PREP0002433 – Advancing Power Electronics with Defect Metrology (Post-Doc) (Posted 13 June 2024)
  • PREP0002384 – PREP Research Associate Automation Technician (Post-Bachelor). (Posted 17 April 2024)
  • PREP0002587 – Perception performance of Robotic Systems Project (Post-Doc)(Posted 30 July 2024)
  • PREP0002398 – Supply Chain Traceability (Post-Doc). (Posted 19 April 2024)
  • PREP0002388 – Fast IR Measurement of Cure Kinetics of Advanced Packaging Polymers (Post-Doc). (Posted 17 April 2024)
  • PREP0001953 – Postdoctoral Research Associate in Photonics science & Technology (Post-Doc). (Posted 15 February 2024)
  • PREP0002160 – PREP Research Associate (Research Faculty). (Posted 7 February 2024)
  • PREP0001952 Orthogonal Strain Rheology Measurements (Post-Doc). (Posted 5 Nov 2023)
  • PREP0001852 Digital Image Processing for Measuring Solar Panel Degradation (Post-Bac or Graduate Student). (Posted 17 September 2023)
  • PREP0001777 Enhancing Building Applications and Analytics Through Semantic Standards (Post-Bac) (Posted 24 August 2023)
  • PREP0001718 Research and Applications in Statistical Metrology (Post-Doc). (Posted 24 August 2023)
  • PREP0001716 Research and Applications in Statistical Metrology (Part Time Academic Affiliate). (Posted 24 August 2023)
  • PREP0001741 Cost-Effective Resource Allocation Strategies for Community Resilience (Post-bac). (Posted 14 August 2023)
  • PREP0001663 Premise Plumbing Systems for High-Performance Buildings (Post-Doc). (Posted 23 July 2023)
  • PREP0001642 Automation-based methods for measurement infrastructures in engineering biology (Post-Doc). (Posted 23 July 2023)
  • PREP0001609 Front-End Web Developer. (Masters Degree). (Posted 2 July 2023)
  • PREP0001564 Resilience/Sustainability Research. (Post-Doc). (Posted 15 June 2023)
  • PREP0001531 AV Perception: Test and evaluation of Perception sensors for Automated vehicles (post-Bachelor or post-Master). (Posted 12 June 2023)
  • PREP0001118 Modeling of building fires (Post-doc). (Posted 7 May 2023)
  • PREP0001104 – Assistance with the Rapid Drug Analysis and Research (RaDAR) Program and Seized Drug Interlaboratory Studies (Masters Degree). (Posted 7 May 2023)
  • PREP0001558 Combined DSC-Raman of Polymer Recyclates. (Post-Doc). (Posted 14 June 2023)
  • PREP0001270 Front-End Web Developer (Bachelor’s Degree). (Posted 2 July 2023)
  • PREP0001396 Research Associate in Cybersecurity. (Graduate Student) (Posted 2 July 2023)
  • PREP0001480 Wildland Urban Interface Fires – Case Studies and National Data (Bachelor’s Degree). (Posted 26 May 2023)
  • PREP0001488 Life Cycle Analysis for a More Sustainable and Circular Economy (Post-doc). Posted 26 May 2023)
  • PREP0001504 Exposure of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from firefighter’s Gear and Workplace Environment (Post-Doc). (Posted 1 June 2023)
  • PREP0001542 Decision Science for a Sustainable, Resilient, Circular Economy. (Post-Doc). (Posted 12 June 2023)
  • PREP0001192 – Raman Scattering During Plastics Recycling (Post-doc). (Posted 7 May 2023).
  • PREP0001417 Enhanced Infrared Classification of Post-Consumer Resins through Multimodal Measurement Correlations (Post-Doc). (Posted 16 May 2023)
  • PREP0001720 Research and Applications in Statistical Metrology (Full Time Academic Affiliate). (Posted 24 August 2023)
  • PREP0001717 Research and Applications in Statistical Metrology (Graduate student). (Posted 24 August 2023)
  • PREP0001863 Exposure of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from firefighter’s gear and workplace environment (Post-Doc). (Posted 26 September 2023)