{
    "position": {
        "id": "ON-AR-1103",
        "slug": "research-scientist-metamaterials-photonics",
        "title": "Research Scientist — Metamaterials & Photonics",
        "division": "advanced-research",
        "region": "apac",
        "level": "early",
        "location": "Tsukuba, Japan",
        "site": "Research campus",
        "clearance": "None",
        "employment": "Full-time · On site",
        "travel": "Limited — occasional conference and partner visits",
        "reports_to": "Group Leader, Photonic Materials",
        "featured": false,
        "summary": "Design, fabricate, and characterise engineered optical materials for sensing and thermal-management applications across the company. An early-career research post with real instrument access from the first month and a named supervisor who is accountable for your development.",
        "responsibilities": [
            "Run fabrication and characterisation cycles on nanostructured optical samples, and keep the records that make them reproducible.",
            "Build and maintain the simulation models that precede each fabrication run.",
            "Contribute to internal technical notes and, where disclosure allows, to external publication.",
            "Support instrument calibration and cleanroom discipline on the shared photonics floor.",
            "Take one line of inquiry of your own, with supervision, and carry it to a result or a documented negative."
        ],
        "required": [
            "Doctorate or master's degree with research experience in photonics, optical materials, or applied electromagnetics.",
            "Hands-on cleanroom fabrication experience — lithography, deposition, or etch.",
            "Competence in electromagnetic simulation (FDTD, FEM, or equivalent) and in the scripting around it.",
            "Careful, legible laboratory record-keeping.",
            "Working English; Japanese is useful but not required."
        ],
        "preferred": [
            "Experience with mid-infrared or terahertz measurement.",
            "Exposure to thermal or radiative metamaterial design.",
            "Prior work in a shared national or institutional facility."
        ],
        "team": "The Tsukuba campus runs photonic materials, metrology, and a fabrication line under one roof. The group is deliberately small and mixed-seniority; early-career researchers sit on the instrument floor rather than apart from it.",
        "notes": "Relocation and visa sponsorship are handled by the People division. Language support is available for the first two years.",
        "division_label": "Advanced Research",
        "region_label": "APAC",
        "level_label": "Early career",
        "url": "role.php?job=research-scientist-metamaterials-photonics",
        "apply": "mailto:careers@omninova.global?subject=Application%20%E2%80%94%20Research%20Scientist%20%E2%80%94%20Metamaterials%20%26%20Photonics%20%28ON-AR-1103%29"
    }
}