ROLE: Part-time, minimum 20-29 hours/week
Summer, Fall, or Spring Semester
*Full-time hours may be offered during Summer, if internship is extended*
In this role, you will gain the knowledge and skills to perform a variety of Intern support duties, including but not limited to, supporting our scientific team by preparing conductive ink samples; preparing film samples through various coating techniques; characterizing materials; and maintaining laboratory equipment, organization, and inventory.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the Intern for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice by your direct supervisor and/or executive.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Handling of ink chemistry and samples including preparation and quality control
- Characterization of materials stability (including temperature, humidity, chemical, and adhesion properties)
- Work with materials team on conductive inks formulations, and related synthesis of individual components as well as high viscosity printing methods
- Assist Process Engineer(s) with designs, support, research and hands-on applications
- Provide technical support to production, maintenance, environmental, and quality
- Handling of nanomaterials including silver, copper, and other metallic nanoparticle samples
- Safe chemical handling, lab up-keep, house-keeping, and general applications laboratory practices
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Pursing degree in related field
- Experience with wet-chemistry methods and practice, wet-bench, solvents, chemical reactions, surface chemistry, and materials processing
- Ability to work with chemicals in a safe, organized, and neat manner, with attention for details
- Ability to work in a highly motivated, fast-paced team to develop a range of synthesis, characterization, and processing methods
- Ability to prepare documents, presentations, write standard operating procedures (SOPs), and produce technical reports
- Ability to work with teams; excellent written and verbal communication skills is critical
In general, we are looking for candidates who want to join a dynamic team developing materials for a wide range of electronic device, biomedical device, wearable, and display applications that will make an impact on how we live. This is an exciting and dynamic sector with partners and customers world-wide. In addition to being efficient and capable in the lab, successful candidates will have a strong work ethic, exhibit flexible work hours with a results-oriented timeline, and demonstrate the right chemistry and persona to fit into the Electroninks Team.
All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.
Electroninks Inc. and its subsidiaries are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is dedicated to pursuing a diverse workforce.
Company Information:
Electroninks Incorporated is backed by strategic and venture investors. We have conductive inks in the consumer electronics supply chain and our own Circuit Scribe consumer product line. We are devoted to the next generation of printed electronics and wearables through high performance materials for mass-production printing techniques. We have developed a vast array of inks that bring high-performance properties to printed electronics.
Learn more at www.Electroninks.com
Job Types: Part-time, Internship
Pay: From $18.00 per hour
Expected hours: 20 – 29 per week
Schedule:
- 4 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Skills Required
- Pursuing a degree in a related field
- Experience with wet-chemistry methods, wet-bench practices, solvents, chemical reactions, surface chemistry, and materials processing
- Ability to handle chemicals safely, in an organized and neat manner, with attention to detail
- Ability to work in a highly motivated, fast-paced team developing synthesis, characterization, and processing methods
- Ability to prepare documents and presentations, write standard operating procedures, and produce technical reports
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work with teams
- Authorization to work in the United States
- Flexible work hours and a results-oriented work ethic
What We Do
Electroninks develops and manufactures proprietary metal-complex conductive inks and related material solutions for electronics production. Its inks—made from metals such as silver, gold, platinum, nickel, and copper—offer conductive, stable alternatives for semiconductor packaging, printed circuit boards, consumer electronics, wearables, and medical devices. The company also works with customers to tailor formulations and support new product development and more efficient manufacturing processes.
