# Instrumentation and Tool Process Engineer

Job Description Virginia Tech’s Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory (NCFL) seeks a skilled, creative Instrumentation and Tool/Process Engineer to advance the integration of scientific instruments, automation, and research data systems. The engineer will develop and validate tools that improve how researchers acquire data, monitor equipment, and conduct electron- and ion-beam characterization, correlative microscopy, and electron-beam lithography workflows. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys solving problems across hardware, software, and scientific instrumentation. Projects may include instrument interfaces, sensors and telemetry, edge-computing components, automated acquisition, image and metadata pipelines, and workflows connecting instruments across facilities. The successful candidate will turn research objectives into reliable, documented capabilities that researchers and facility staff can use. The engineer will collaborate with NCFL staff, faculty, students, vendors, and personnel in other Virginia Tech facilities. Work involving an instrument will follow the safety, access, qualification, scheduling, change-control, and operational requirem

- **Id**: 4031397
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/virginia-tech-instrumentation-and-tool-process-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Blacksburg, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T15:15:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T14:20:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
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- **Benefits**: Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Higher Education

## Company

- **Id**: 35633
- **Name**: Virginia Tech
- **Domain**: vt.edu
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/virginia-tech-news>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: PageUp

## Salary

- **Min**: 70000
- **Max**: 82267
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 82267

## Technologies

- **Photolithography** — Optional: no
- **Electron Microscopy (SEM/TEM)** — Optional: yes
- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: associate
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T18:44:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 60
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 82267
- **Is top pay**: no

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