Summary NIST's Nanoscale Spectroscopy Group is hiring a talented and ambitious Quantum Physicist to develop innovative measurement platforms using custom quantum probes. Working with leading experts, you will fabricate advanced cryogenic microscopes to characterize fragile quantum systems and publish breakthrough results in open literature. This notice is issued under direct-hire authority to recruit new talent to occupations for which NIST has a severe shortage of candidates. Responsibilities The mission of NIST's Nanoscale Device Characterization Division is to develop and advance the measurement and knowledge infrastructure to characterize nano- and atom-scale engineered materials and solid-state devices for innovation in information processing, sensing, and future quantum technologies. This position is in the Nanoscale Spectroscopy Group, which harnesses light-matter interactions for nanoscale metrology of materials and devices in critical and emerging technologies by applying expe...