Jobs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Solicits, negotiates, awards, and administers complex research, development, commercial, fixed-price, and cost-reimbursable subcontracts. Responsibilities include acquisition planning, source selection, proposal evaluation, price analysis, negotiation, vendor performance, invoice review, modifications, closeout, compliance, audit responses, and technical correspondence. Senior-level duties include managing highly complex, high-value subcontracts, interpreting technical specifications, leading projects, and mentoring analysts.

Leads complex, high-hazard work planning and control activities for scientific, nuclear, explosives, maintenance, and subcontractor work. Develops technical work packages, job hazard analyses, procedures, and safety evaluations; conducts field walkdowns and reviews; interprets safety-basis requirements; advises management on risk-informed decisions; and facilitates approvals and briefings. At the principal level, mentors work planners, leads governance and training initiatives, and represents the work-control function to internal and external stakeholders.

Leads a multidisciplinary micro and nano technology group conducting research and development in nanomaterials, devices, fabrication, characterization, microfluidics, MEMS, sensors, and biotechnology. Responsibilities include technical strategy, project planning, workforce development, recruiting, performance management, design and experiment reviews, sponsor communication, safety compliance, and organizational planning. The higher level also develops programs, engages sponsors, shapes long-term strategy, and represents the laboratory externally.

Conduct research on scientific machine learning, reduced-order and surrogate modeling, uncertainty quantification, active learning, and data-driven modeling of physical systems. Develop efficient models combining high-fidelity simulations with sparse experimental data, integrate them with AI-agent workflows, and apply them to electrochemical systems and advanced manufacturing. Collaborate with multidisciplinary researchers, evaluate computational methods, publish findings, and present results.

Designs, builds, tests, and fields experimental mechanical hardware for national security programs. Develops system requirements, test plans, engineering documentation, instrumentation, and data acquisition approaches. Coordinates with principal investigators, designers, technicians, facility teams, and external organizations to execute testing at specialized facilities. Leads design reviews, trade studies, project schedules, risk tracking, hardware integration, fabrication, testing, and reporting. Higher-level responsibilities include technical leadership, multidisciplinary coordination, mentoring, and directing complex experimental systems.

Leads LLNL’s approximately $50 million annual institutional infrastructure investment portfolio spanning 90 active projects. Integrates cost, schedule, funding, risk, performance, deferred maintenance, and mission-planning data to establish priorities, guide execution, advise leadership and DOE/NNSA stakeholders, and improve portfolio governance. Provides senior technical authority, directs corrective actions and investment strategies, develops executive reporting and decision-support processes, and leads cross-organizational infrastructure investment initiatives.

Develops AI-driven automation, data-analysis algorithms, machine-learning models, database interfaces, and scalable computational workflows for scientific and laboratory operations. Responsibilities include data ingestion and transformation, statistical analysis, anomaly detection, model validation, workflow integration with instruments and engineering systems, and maintaining analytical tools. The role also assesses data quality and uncertainty, supports machine vision, prepares technical documentation and publications, and mentors less-experienced personnel in multidisciplinary research environments.

Develop physics-informed machine-learning methods for computational mechanics and scientific simulations. Build and evaluate neural networks, surrogate and reduced-order models incorporating governing equations, conservation laws, and material constraints. Analyze experimental and computational data, conduct numerical simulations, collaborate across disciplines, and publish research in scientific journals and conferences. The role requires a recent PhD, relevant computational mechanics and scientific machine-learning experience, high-performance computing knowledge, and eligibility for a DOE Q security clearance.

Leads a $100M–$200M portfolio of complex infrastructure projects from initiation through closeout. Responsibilities include managing scope, budgets, schedules, risks, resources, stakeholders, and performance; overseeing project managers and multidisciplinary teams; establishing priorities and execution strategies; ensuring regulatory and security compliance; and reporting portfolio status and recommendations to leadership. The role also develops portfolio processes, tools, metrics, and continuous-improvement practices.

Supports kinetic technology experiments involving conventional weapons and energetic materials. Designs, fabricates, assembles, tests, troubleshoots, upgrades, and maintains complex electro-mechanical systems and instrumentation. Collaborates with scientists and engineers, develops procedures, documents and presents test results, leads technical staff, and provides independent technical direction. The role requires full-time onsite work, periodic travel to Nuclear Weapons Enterprise sites, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for a DOE Q-level clearance.

Develop and maintain full-stack software supporting mission-critical analytical and operational workflows. Responsibilities include building React or Angular interfaces, Python or Node back-end services, data pipelines, version-control mechanisms, graph-based document comparison, unit tests, and SQA documentation. Collaborate with scientists, developers, and stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable solutions, apply secure engineering practices, and support AI-enabled data management systems. Higher-level duties include technical leadership, mentoring, testing strategy, and risk mitigation.

Designs and assesses mechanical systems for nuclear stockpile and national security projects. Responsibilities include deriving requirements, developing conceptual and detailed designs, supporting fabrication and assembly, preparing safety and engineering documentation, participating in testing and design reviews, analyzing results, and managing project plans, schedules, and budgets. The role collaborates with multidisciplinary teams, national laboratories, government agencies, and contractors, with higher-level responsibilities involving complex technical problem-solving and mentoring.

Undergraduate interns support Business Directorate projects across areas such as process optimization, administrative services, property management, fleet services, graphics, website design, and technical writing. Responsibilities include analyzing processes and information, developing reports, presentations, and tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams, identifying efficiency improvements, and presenting recommendations or prototypes. Interns work under close supervision and may follow a hybrid schedule.

Designs and develops mechanical and electromechanical systems for nuclear research facilities. Responsibilities include structural, thermal, hydraulic, and dynamics modeling; conceptual and detailed design; prototype development, fabrication, integration, testing, and fielding; safety documentation; project interface coordination; and technical leadership of multidisciplinary teams. Higher-level responsibilities include setting project strategy, directing technical approaches, and solving highly complex mechanical design challenges.

Develops and maintains monitoring, alerting, observability, automation, and diagnostic tools for HPC clusters, storage, networks, and data center facilities. Responsibilities include troubleshooting hardware and software issues, integrating facility systems, supporting HPC deployments and decommissioning, documenting operational procedures, and assisting users. Higher-level duties include leading technical projects, analyzing operational trends, resolving complex issues, mentoring staff, and prioritizing concurrent work. Requires on-site shift work and eligibility for a DOE Q-level clearance.

Develop, test, debug, optimize, deploy, and maintain object-oriented software for LLNL security systems. Collaborate on requirements, design, implementation, and software lifecycle activities in Linux and Windows environments. Support technical projects, resolve operational issues, and communicate with developers, management, and sponsors. At the higher level, manage parallel priorities and guide complex software system design and deployment.

Build and maintain backend service frameworks, integration adapters, APIs, event-driven workflows, and automation connecting SI applications with internal systems, hardware gateways, and approved external services. Improve deployment workflows, secrets management, monitoring, logging, permissions, auditability, rate limiting, fallback behavior, and operational reliability. Collaborate with engineering and cybersecurity teams to troubleshoot and strengthen secure integrations. Higher-level responsibilities include designing multi-service integration approaches and providing technical guidance.

Develops embedded and hardware-software integrations connecting laboratory and manufacturing equipment to orchestration and super intelligence platforms. Responsibilities include device bring-up, protocol integrations, telemetry and command interfaces, safety interlocks, test harnesses, diagnostics, and troubleshooting. Higher-level duties include designing reusable integration patterns, diagnosing complex multi-protocol failures, and guiding contributors. The role is fully onsite and requires eligibility for a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance.

Build software enabling intelligent agents and multimodal models to interact safely with physical equipment. Develop perception, decision-support, tool-calling, and agent workflows using camera, telemetry, APIs, and operational data. Improve prompts, evaluations, guardrails, logging, reliability, and failure analysis while collaborating with embedded, platform, and deployment engineers. The role requires Python proficiency, software engineering practices, real-world sensor or device data experience, and eligibility for a DOE Q-level clearance.

Design, fabricate, integrate, test, and validate precision mechanical and optomechanical hardware for laboratory R&D and national security programs. Develop prototypes, instrumentation, sensors, actuators, and data acquisition platforms; analyze test data; document and present technical findings; and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. Higher-level responsibilities include technical leadership, mentoring, project management, design reviews, requirements definition, resource allocation, and proposal development.