Postdoctoral Associate – Instrumentation and Sensing/Bioelectronics Workflow Validation
Virginia Tech · Posted Nov 6, 2026
- Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
- On-site
- Full-time
- $65K–$75K per year
- 1–4 years
Conduct mentored research on the development and experimental validation of AI-guided design-build-test-learn (DBTL) workflows for plasmonic sensing and flexible bioelectronics.
Compensation
65,000 - 75,000
Responsibilities
- Investigate experimental methods connecting materials and device fabrication with calibrated optical, electrical, electrochemical, or multimodal measurements
- Perform synchronized acquisition, reliability assessment, and uncertainty-aware model validation
- Maintain reproducible experiment records
- Contribute to validated materials-, geometry-, interface-, and process-to-sensing relationships
- Work on digital-twin validation and machine-readable provenance
Requirements
- PhD in electrical engineering
- PhD in biomedical engineering
- PhD in chemical engineering
- PhD in mechanical engineering
- PhD in applied physics