Laboratory Operations Associate
Stanford, CAFull-time$95–115K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Stanford University’s nano@stanford seeks a Lab Operations Associate to support day-to-day operations in its Nanopatterning and Flexible Cleanrooms. The role focuses on general cleanroom operations, including lab upkeep, inventory management, hazardous waste management, and initial cleanroom safety training for researchers. The associate may also support photolithography and metrology equipment, train and assist researchers, develop advanced techniques, and help plan facility upgrades and new equipment.
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WORK SCHEDULE:
Work Schedule: On-site work arrangement; employee is expected to work on-site full-time.
BUDGETED SALARY:
$95,000/yr - $115,000/yr
SCHOOL/UNIT DESCRIPTION:
nano@stanford is the University's largest shared experimental research facility, providing access to world-leading expertise and capabilities in nanoscale science and engineering. We serve over 1,400 researchers from Stanford and as well as academic, industrial, and government institutions across the US and globally—spanning fields from medicine and biology to fundamental physics and astronomy. Our nearly 40,000 sq ft of cleanrooms and satellite laboratories house 300+ state-of-the-art instruments for fabricating and characterizing materials and devices. But beyond the equipment, nano@stanford is a vibrant, collaborative research community where innovation thrives. For more information, visit: https://nanolabs.stanford.edu .
POSITION SUMMARY:
nano@stanford is seeking a Lab Operations Associate to support research operations within the Nanopatterning and Flexible Cleanrooms as part of nano@stanford’s nanofabrication facilities. Core equipment include direct-write photo and electron-beam lithography, physical vapor deposition, dry etching, wet chemical processing, and metrology. The successful candidate will be part of a team supporting the day-to-day operations of both cleanrooms. They will be primarily responsible for general cleanroom operations, spanning general lab upkeep, inventory management, and hazardous waste management. They will be a key initial point of contact for many of our researchers to provide initial cleanroom safety training. They may also be responsible for additional equipment primarily in photolithography and metrology. They will provide training and support to researchers, develop and implement advanced techniques, and also be involved in planning for upgrades and new equipment.
How this job compares
Set against the 460 open Laboratory Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$95–115K/yr
- US median$80–122K/yr114 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $105K, is close to the US median midpoint ($104K) — in the middle half of Laboratory Operations salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Laboratory Operations jobs in California and 460 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- Laboratory Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (285 postings).
- Education
- 94 of the 460 open Laboratory Operations jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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