Job titles for new physics PhD recipients in potentially permanent non-education physics positions.

  • Aeronautical engineer
  • AMO Physicist
  • Analyst
  • Application Engineer
  • Application Scientist XRD
  • Applied Mathematician
  • Applied Physicist
  • Assistant Teaching Specialist
  • Associate Scientist
  • Associate Staff Scientist
  • CEO & CTO
  • Computational Physicist
  • Computational Scientist
  • Design Physicist
  • Device Scientist
  • Education Developer and Researcher
  • Epitaxial Engineer
  • Lab Specialist
  • Material Scientist
  • MBE Production Growth Engineer
  • Medical Physicist
  • Member of Technical Staff
  • Member of the Technical Staff
  • Modeling and Simulation Engineer/Analyst
  • Optical Engineer
  • Physical Scientist
  • Physicist
  • Principal Physicist
  • Process Engineer
  • Project Scientist
  • Quantum Computing Applications Researcher
  • Quantum Engineer
  • Quantum Measurement Scientist
  • Quantum Systems Engineer
  • R&D Physicist
  • R&D Scientist
  • Research Associate
  • Research Engineer
  • Research Physicist
  • Research Scientist
  • Research Scientist II
  • Research Scientist Sr
  • Research Staff
  • Research Staff Member
  • Research Technologist
  • Scientific Software Engineer
  • Scientist
  • Scientist 1
  • Scientist 2
  • Scientist I
  • Scientist III
  • Scientist Scientist
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior laser engineer
  • Senior Physicist
  • Senior Professional
  • Senior Professional Staff
  • Senior Professional Staff I
  • Senior Scientist
  • Senior Test Engineer
  • Shull Fellow
  • Sr Simulation Engineer
  • Sr. Aerospace Engineer
  • Staff Engineer
  • Staff Scientist
  • Teaching Fellow
  • Thin Film Coating Engineer




 

 





 

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Source: AIP Statistical Research Center, Initial Employment Surveys, classes 2016 thru 2020.

This listing only represents a portion of the job titles for new PhDs in potentially permanent non-education physics positions.