Cleanroom Technician

**Position**: Cleanroom Technician

**Department**: R&D

**Location**: Burnaby, BC, Canada

**Reports to**: Manager, Technology Integration

**COMPANY VALUES**

All Authentix employees are expected to embrace our Company values in the performance of their respective tasks and duties.

Always with _integrity_.......Authentixians value:

- Dedicate ourselves to our customers’ success
- Compete and win with integrity
- Create innovative solutions with science and technology
- Team and collaborate with accountability

**JOB SUMMARY**

Reporting to the Manager, Technology Integration, the Cleanroom Technician will be responsible for learning and executing micro
- and nano-replication techniques, along with characterization of optical and photonic devices. The technology you will work on extends beyond conventional IC and MEMS-type devices, including polymer and non-standard substrates. Experience with nanoimprinting, casting, and electroforming are considered an asset. The position is heavily hands-on in laboratory and cleanroom work environments. You will contribute to your team’s collective research by working with other technicians, scientists, and engineers to improve and develop new nano-optical devices. The company depends on you to ensure a high-level fidelity in micro/nanostructure replication from wafer scale processes which are used for our scale-up to roll-to-roll mass production steps. The position involves versatile, creative thinking, inclusive teamwork, and detailed execution of process steps including nanoimprint lithography (NIL), UV casting, thermal embossing, spin-coating of resists and resin, electroforming, physical vapour deposition (PVD) of thin films, and various characterization techniques.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- ** Micro/Nanofabrication**:

- Learning and executing micro and nano-fabrication processes while operating in Laboratory and Class 100 cleanroom environments.
- ** Metrology **- Assisting with nano-characterization processes. Performing optical microscope and profilometry measurements on nano-imprinted substrates.
- ** Communication** - Maintaining and updating documentation such as standard operating procedures (SOPs). Delivering regularly scheduled reports to your manager on time and at a high-quality standard.
- ** Organization**:

- Ensure all materials are filed following agreed conventions and are easily accessible.

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- ** Education **- B.Sc. or equivalent in physics, chemical, electrical or materials engineering and sciences.
- ** Experience**:

- 1+ years of hands-on experience in cleanroom environment.
- ** Technical**:

- Familiar with cleanroom safety and hazardous materials handling protocols. Additional assets include experience in: spin coating, drop casting, electroforming, physical vapour deposition; NIL; optical microscopy and profilometry.
- ** Characteristics **- We appreciate self-learners with strong interpersonal skills. As a valued member of our team, we will work together to develop a shared culture of inclusivity, loyalty, and trust.

**About us**

Where ideas and innovation meet.

KolourOptik is a patented technology that is exclusive to the government and banknote market and combines sub-wavelength nanostructures and microstructures to create modern overt security features with a unique and customizable visual effect. KolourOptik pure plasmonic colour pixels produce full colour, 3D depth, and movement used in security stripes and threads that are nearly impossible to replicate. At less than 5 microns thick, KolourOptik products seamlessly integrate into banknotes and other secure government documents.

LiveOptik is a patented technology that utilizes innovative nano-optics one tenth the size of traditional holographic structures to create next generation overt security features customized to our customers’ unique requirements. LiveOptik delivers multi-colour, 3D depth, movement, and image switches for secure brand protection stripes, threads, and labels that are nearly impossible to replicate.

**NOTIFICATION**

This Job Description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job and is not considered an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and required skills. This Job Description does not constitute an offer of employment. The employment relationship between the Company and its employees is “At-Will” and based on mutual consent. Authentix, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.