Co-Op, Characterization Electrodeposited Material
Your Impact at LILA
Lila Sciences is hiring a co-op to join the Materials Science team within the Autonomous Science Platform. You will characterize electrodeposited metal films and develop the measurement methods that make those results repeatable. Deposition is handled by other scientists on the team; your focus is measurement, method development, and data quality.
The role spans electrical, surface, structural, and mechanical techniques: four-point probe for sheet resistance and resistivity, laser confocal metrology for thickness, step height, and roughness, XRD and EBSD for phase, texture, and grain structure, and hardness testing for mechanical properties. Much of the work is standing these methods up: defining sample prep, acquisition settings, and acceptance criteria so results hold across operators and sample batches.
You will work alongside scientists and engineers in a lab built for high-throughput, automated experimentation, and your protocols will feed directly into how these measurements get scaled.
What You'll Be Building
- Develop sample prep and measurement protocols for general characterization tools on electrodeposited films: four-point probe, hardness testing, and SEM/EBSD.
- Prepare samples for SEM and EBSD (mounting, polishing, surface cleanup)
