ISO 9001:2015 CertifiedQuality management system · SGS certificate US23/00000276 · valid to June 2029
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Careers
We are a small team in Princeton that designs and makes rare-earth crystals, and the instruments that read them, for authentication, medicine, defense, displays and spectroscopy. If you like seeing your work leave the lab and go into the world, we would like to meet you.
Open roles
All roles are based at our Princeton, New Jersey facility. Open a role to read more.
Run nanocrystal syntheses and scale-up batches, characterize what comes out, and keep the lab, instruments and records in order. You are the person who turns a recipe into a reliable product, batch after batch.
$50,000 to $68,000 a year, depending on experience and qualifications.
Health insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; paid time off and paid holidays.
Design and build the optical systems around our crystals: authentication readers, mid-infrared spectroscopy instruments, laser and VCSEL engines for displays and therapy. From the first breadboard to a product that ships.
$95,000 to $135,000 a year, depending on experience and qualifications.
Health insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; paid time off and paid holidays.
Choose the host, the ions, the size and the shell that give each application its light. Develop new compositions with the R&D team, then make them reproducible and scalable.
$90,000 to $130,000 a year, depending on experience and qualifications.
Health insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; paid time off and paid holidays.
Formulate the inks, varnishes, masterbatches and coatings that carry our crystals into banknotes, packaging, labels, fibers and plastics, and make them run on customers’ printing and production lines.
$70,000 to $100,000 a year, depending on experience and qualifications.
Health insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; paid time off and paid holidays.
Bring our authentication technology to brands, pharmaceutical companies, governments and supply chains, working closely with NovaVera. Turn real deployments into stories, materials and pipeline.
$100,000 to $140,000 a year, depending on experience and qualifications.
Health insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; paid time off and paid holidays.
Why IMS
Our crystals are already in commercial products and research labs. Everyone here works close to the science and close to the customer.
The same people design the crystal, build the reader and see it on a customer's line. Your work shows up in the world quickly.
Authentication, diagnostics, therapeutics, defense, displays and spectroscopy, all growing from one materials platform.
Work alongside university and national-lab partners on problems nobody has solved yet.
How to apply
Use the button on any role, or write to Viva Bell. Tell us which role interests you and what you would like to build. Don't see your role? Write anyway.
Email Viva with the role in the subject line.
A conversation with the people you would work with.
See the crystals, the instruments and where you would work.
Pay ranges are our good-faith estimate at the time of posting; the final offer depends on experience and qualifications. Intelligent Material Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
ISO 9001:2015 CertifiedQuality management system · SGS certificate US23/00000276 · valid to June 2029