POSITIONS AVAILABLE
X-RAY DETECTOR RESEARCH/DEVELOPMENT

THE COMPANY:
X-ray Instrumentation Associates (XIA) is a tiny company
located close to Stanford University in Silicon Valley.  Our
present research and product development efforts lie primarily in
the areas of array detectors and electronics for synchrotron
radiation experimentation and specialized detectors for medical
imaging or nuclear medicine.  While our major support to date has
been from SBIR grants, with minor support from product sales, the
company goal is to reverse that ratio in the near future.  We are
therefore seeking individuals who not only excel at innovative
research but also enjoy the engineering process required to reduce
research to product practice.  Because we are a tiny company, we
require people who possess multiple areas of expertise and acquire
new ones readily.  Since our customers engage in advanced research
and we must understand (and sometime collaborate in) that research
to meet their detector needs, our "corporate culture" is a
challenging but rewarding mix of academic intellectual rigor and
nuts and bolts engineering.  Because of the fluctuations inherent
in grant supported research, we take an entrepreneurial approach
and pay modest salaries, which are easier to guarantee, and
compensate with an excellent retirement package and a program to
share product profits with the products' developers.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
Some of the areas of expertise we could presently use
include, in no particular order:
1)	Detector physics (solid state, gas microstrip, or related).
2)	Digital electronics design (at the gate array level a plus).
3)	Computer-detector electronics interfacing.
4)	Analog design for low noise (1-20 MHz region).
5)	Synchrotron Experimental Experience: X-ray absorption
spectroscopy preferred, X-ray diffraction OK.
6)	Scientific Programming for non-trivial analysis or experimental
control (C better, FORTRAN OK).
7)	Good scientific writing skills are quite important; success
with funded proposals a plus, of course.
8)	Test/Measurement instrument design at module or system level.
9)	Digital/Analog ASIC design, fab, and test.
10)	Experimental surface science, esp. x-ray source spectroscopies.
11)	Miscellaneous: Labview programming, other analog/digital
experience, SEM/TEM exposure, PC board layout.


POSITIONS AVAILABLE:

We currently have 2 funded and 1 high probability positions available, which

are listed below.  We have a variety of other proposals out and hope to need

more help soon.  We will consider people with Bachelor's, Master's, Ph.D.'s and

Post Doc's, with or without additional experience and are an equal
opportunity employer.  If you have skills in 3 or more of these areas, let us

know you're out there.

1 st Position (Funded):
Primary responsibility: to develop software interface between
XIA multichannel detector processing module and currently
developed EXAFS software analysis package.  The module is nearly a
product and needs control software to set its parameters, collect
multiple full spectra per data point, perform on-the-fly
deconvolutions to extract fluorescent intensities, and pass the
data to the analysis package.  Secondary responsibilities: to
depend upon person's skill set.  Primary experience preferred in
areas 5,6 & 7 above, but other combinations will be considered.
Probably required Masters or higher.

2 nd Position (Funded):
Primary responsibility: Work in small group developing high
speed, high energy resolution x-ray detector array.  Will require
developing analog and digital support electronics for ASIC front
end, devising and carrying out (automating?) test procedures,
constructing interface to control computer.  Secondary
responsibility: Improving design and refining processing
algorithms for x-ray spectrometer electronics based on digital
signal processing techniques.  Applicable skill sets might be
(2,3,8 with some 7,5) or (4,1,6 with some 7,8) or similar.
Probably requires Ph.D. or higher.

3 rd Position (Very Highly Ranked Proposal):
Developing portable system to calibrate mammography x-ray
units.  Responsibilities to include some fraction of the following:
Developing source spectrum measurement procedures for use with
room temperature detector; converting existing digital
spectrometer to PC based unit; developing PC code routines to
control PC based spectrometer, acquire and analyze data.  Skill set
might be (3,6,2 with some 7,8) or (1,2,5 with soem 6,3) or (8,7,6)
etc., etc.  This is a chance to do something which is extremely
useful socially while having fun with PC based instrumentation.

Upcoming Possibilities:
1) Work with diamond NEA surfaces in X-ray detectors.
2) Research techniques for high energy resolution, position
sensitive room temperature x-ray detectors.

REPLY TO: Send a CV and 3 references to:
Dr. William K. Warburton, X-ray Instrumentation Associates,
2513 Charleston Road, STE 207, Mountain View, CA 94043-1607
Phone: (415) 903-9980; Fax: (415) 903-9887
e-mail: Warburton@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu