NIST PREP Announcements

PREP0004375 Research Associate: Researcher in Optical Properties of Materials

Published March 31, 2026

By vinhapi

NIST PML – 68 has a new PREP research opportunity described below and in the attached (PREP0004375). The NIST Sponsor is seeking candidate recommendations.

Project Title/Description: PREP0004375: Researcher in Optical Properties of Materials
OU: PML – 68
Div: 685
Group: Surface and Interface Metrology Group
Level of Appointment: Post-doctoral Fellow
Schedule of Appointment: full time
Total Hours per week: 40
Work Location: Physically at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD)
Requested Start Date: 2026-08-03
End Date: 2027-08-02

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PREP0004376 Research Associate: Reliability Testing and Failure Analysis for Advanced Semiconductor Packaging (CHIPS Funded)

Published March 31, 2026

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NIST EL – 73 has a new PREP research opportunity described below and in the attached (PREP0004376). The NIST Sponsor is seeking candidate recommendations.

Project Title/Description: PREP0004376: Reliability Testing and Failure Analysis for Advanced Semiconductor Packaging
OU: EL – 73
Div: 731
Group: Infrastructure Materials Group
Level of Appointment: Post-doctoral Fellow
Schedule of Appointment: full time
Total Hours per week: 40
Work Location: Physically at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD)
Requested Start Date: 2026-08-01
End Date: 2027-07-31

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PREP0004347 Research Associate: Experimental Flow Measurement and Instrumentation with Automated Data Acquisition

Published March 31, 2026

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NIST PML – 68 has a new PREP research opportunity described below and in the attached (PREP0004347). The NIST Sponsor is seeking candidate recommendations.

Project Title/Description: PREP0004347: Associate Scientist – Experimental Flow Measurement and Instrumentation with Automated Data Acquisition
OU: PML – 68
Div: 685
Group: Fluid Metrology Group
Level of Appointment: Post Bachelor’s Degree
Schedule of Appointment: full time
Total Hours per week: 40
Work Location: Physically at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD)
Requested Start Date: 2026-07-19
End Date: 2027-07-18

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PREP0004368 Research Associate: Reference Material Creation to Calibrate AI Solutions Across Labs

Published March 26, 2026

By vinhapi

NIST ITL – 77 has a new PREP research opportunity described below and in the attached (PREP0004368). The NIST Sponsor is seeking candidate recommendations.

Project Title/Description: PREP0004368: Reference Material Creation to Calibrate AI Solutions Across Labs
OU: ITL – 77
Div: 775
Group: Information Systems Group
Level of Appointment: Post-doctoral Fellow
Schedule of Appointment: full time
Total Hours per week: 40
Work Location: Physically at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD)
Requested Start Date: 2026-07-26
End Date: 2027-07-25

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PREP0004343 Research Associate: NIST GenAI program

Published March 25, 2026

By vinhapi

NIST ITL – 77 has a new PREP research opportunity described below and in the attached (PREP0004343). The NIST Sponsor is seeking candidate recommendations.

Project Title/Description: PREP0004343: NIST GenAI program
OU: ITL – 77
Div: 774
Group: Multimodal Information Group
Level of Appointment: Post Bachelor’s Degree
Schedule of Appointment: full time
Total Hours per week: 40
Work Location: Physically at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD),Telework
Requested Start Date: 2026-07-17
End Date: 2027-07-16

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PREP0004345 Research Associate: Trapped Ion Quantum Networking

Published March 24, 2026

By Yin-Yin Tan

NIST PML – 68 has a new PREP research opportunity described below and in the attached (PREP0004345). The NIST Sponsor is seeking candidate recommendations.

Project Title/Description: PREP0004345 – 688.10 Trapped Ion Quantum Networking Postdoctoral Researcher
OU: PML – 68
Div: 688
Group: Ion Storage Group
Level of Appointment: Post-doctoral Fellow
Schedule of Appointment: full time
Total Hours per week: 40
Work Location: Physically at NIST (Boulder, CO)
Requested Start Date: 2026-08-01
End Date: 2027-05-31

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REP0004317 Research Associate: Software Engineer – Guardians of Forensic Evidence Project

Published March 23, 2026

By Yin-Yin Tan

NIST ITL – 77 has a new PREP research opportunity described below and in the attached (PREP0004317). The NIST Sponsor is seeking candidate recommendations.

Project Title/Description: REP0004317: Software Engineer – Guardians of Forensic Evidence Project
OU: ITL – 77
Div: 774
Group: Multimodal Information Group
Level of Appointment: Undergraduate Student
Schedule of Appointment: part time
Total Hours per week: 20
Work Location: Physically at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD), Telework
Requested Start Date: 2026-07-11
End Date: 2027-07-10

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PREP0003758 Research Associate: Computer Vision AI models for Additive Manufacturing image processing

Published March 18, 2026

By Yin-Yin Tan

NIST ITL – 77 has a new PREP research opportunity described below and in the attached (PREP0003758). The NIST Sponsor is seeking candidate recommendations.

Project Title/Description: Computer Vision AI models for Additive Manufacturing image processing
OU: ITL – 77
Div: 775
Group: Information Systems Group
Level of Appointment: Graduate Student
Schedule of Appointment: part time
Total Hours per week: 20
Work Location: Physically at University
Requested Start Date: 2026-04-01
End Date: 2027-03-31

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PREP0004288 Research Associate: Chip-scale Doppler Thermometry

Published March 18, 2026

By Yin-Yin Tan

NIST PML – 68 has a new PREP research opportunity described below and in the attached (PREP0004288). The NIST Sponsor is seeking candidate recommendations.

Project Title/Description: PREP0004288 – 688.90 Chip-scale Doppler Thermometry
OU: PML – 68
Div: 688
Group: Atomic Devices & Instrumentation Group
Level of Appointment: Post-doctoral Fellow
Schedule of Appointment: full time
Total Hours per week: 40
Work Location: Physically at NIST (Boulder, CO)
Requested Start Date: 2026-05-01
End Date: 2027-04-30

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PREP0004302 Research Associate: Readout/Adaptive Control for NV-Diamond Vector Magnetometry

Published March 18, 2026

By Yin-Yin Tan

NIST ITL – 77 has a new PREP research opportunity described below and in the attached (PREP0004302). The NIST Sponsor is seeking candidate recommendations.

Project Title/Description: PREP0004302: Readout/Adaptive Control for NV-Diamond Vector Magnetometry
OU: ITL – 77
Div: 774
Group: Information Access – HQ
Level of Appointment: Post-doctoral Fellow
Schedule of Appointment: full time
Total Hours per week: 40
Work Location: Physically at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD)
Requested Start Date: 2026-07-06
End Date: 2028-03-31

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