X-ray/E.M. Research Engineer at New York University
Position available for an engineer or physicist to maintain and upgrade
X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy facilities as well as relevant
computers.
Responsibilities include maintaining two Rigaku rotating anode X-ray
generator, Rigaku RAXIS-II image plates, MSC cry-transfer systems, two
Philips (CM12 and CM200 FEG) electron microscopes, Oxford and Gatan
cry-holders, CCD camera and image processing systems, ordering and
storing x-ray/E.M. lab supplies, and organizing and upgrading
crystallographic software in SGI unix workstations. The instruments will
generally be under service contract and the applicant will therefore
serve as primary liason during service calls. However, the applicant
should also be able to troubleshoot and fix simple problems on his/her
own. In addition, custom applications will involve design and
implementation of special apparatus and the applicant should therefore
be able to read and design simple electronic circuits, to build simple
apparatus, to overhaul vacuum pumps and to understand computer control
of the equipment.
The position is at New York University Medical Center, Skirball
Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, in midtown Manhattan.
Please send resume and reference list (name, title, phone number) to
job at saturn.med.nyu.edu as an ASCII or postscript file, or fax them to
Dr. Da-Neng Wang at 212-263-8951. The deadline to receive application
is December 24, 1996.
