Jobs at Argonne National Laboratory

Develops, fabricates, assembles, tests, maintains, and improves superconducting accelerator cavities and related subsystems for ATLAS and other projects. The role combines hands-on laboratory work, mechanical design, vacuum, electronics, electrical, and radio-frequency systems, analytical modeling, facility operations, troubleshooting, and collaboration with accelerator staff to deliver reliable scientific infrastructure.

Coordinates personal property activities, including inventory, records, acquisitions, transfers, audits, compliance, and vendor services. Supports multiple operational, technical, and process-improvement projects by tracking schedules, deliverables, risks, issues, meetings, approvals, and documentation. Collaborates with custodians, internal stakeholders, project teams, service providers, and laboratory personnel while maintaining accurate records, preparing reports, resolving routine issues, and providing customer service.

Develop and integrate robotic platforms, sensors, and software for autonomous laboratories. Build MADSci device modules and REST APIs, bring up unfamiliar robotic hardware, collect teleoperation demonstrations, and support robot-learning policy development. Collaborate across robotics, software, and experimental science teams while contributing to open-source laboratory orchestration software.

Supports eCommerce procurement by processing purchase requests and orders, maintaining electronic catalogs and supplier punchouts, resolving order and invoice issues, coordinating with suppliers and internal customers, reviewing compliance documentation, and tracking procurement metrics. Provides customer service, maintains transaction accuracy, manages work queues, and contributes to process improvements while following Argonne and DOE policies.

Leads the Product Innovation Track for the EcoCAR Innovation Challenge, coaching 20 university teams through customer discovery, lean startup, market validation, venture building, and commercialization. Develops stage-gate decisions, mentors students on technical and business tradeoffs, builds an industry advisory council, and scales innovation methodologies across advanced energy and transportation programs. The role also supports program design, pilot efforts, grant proposals, technical reporting, and external partnerships.

Leads procurement operations and policy activities, managing specialists responsible for procurement documentation, training, process improvement, compliance, contract administration, and closeouts. Evaluates operational risks and control gaps, standardizes workflows, supports small business requirements, and ensures adherence to legal, regulatory, laboratory, and government contracting requirements. Manages 2–4 direct reports while fostering accountability, collaboration, employee development, and customer-focused service.

Develops, evaluates, and deploys AI foundation and generative models for weather, hydrology, and earth system applications. The researcher will train and optimize deep learning models on large GPU-based HPC systems, analyze atmospheric and hydrological datasets, benchmark model performance, and collaborate with scientists and public and private sector stakeholders. Responsibilities also include scientific coding, technical analysis, publications, reports, and documentation.

Manage and advance enterprise Windows endpoint management services across diverse systems and devices. Responsibilities include implementing, maintaining, modernizing, and retiring endpoint solutions; developing technology roadmaps; troubleshooting integrated systems; collaborating with IT, cybersecurity, service desk, scientific users, and leadership; and leading significant IT initiatives. The role requires Windows, Active Directory, SCCM, networking, virtualization, automation, scripting, and strong communication skills.

Develop physics-based models to predict the structure and performance of additively manufactured metallic and ceramic materials under extreme and in-service conditions. The role involves implementing micromechanical and crystal plasticity models in the MOOSE multiphysics finite element framework, fitting models to experimental data, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary research team. The position is fully on-site at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois.

Leads battery engineering and technical project delivery for the EcoCAR Innovation Challenge. Coordinates sponsors, university teams, research partners, schedules, deliverables, risks, and battery module validation. Supports high-voltage battery architecture, structural integration, pack safety, thermal management, student training, and workforce programming. Applies software engineering and AI/ML to engineering workflows and program operations, while representing STEP through publications, presentations, workshops, and external partnerships.

Administer and optimize onsite Linux/HPC infrastructure, including clusters, GPU nodes, IBM Storage Scale, InfiniBand networks, PBS Pro scheduling, Globus transfer nodes, monitoring systems, and beamline computing environments. Provide advanced user support, troubleshoot hardware and networking, maintain documentation, implement security practices, and collaborate with researchers to ensure reliable, scalable computational and experimental systems.

Develop and operate scalable AI inference solutions for scientific workflows on HPC systems and AI accelerators. Build Python REST services, integrate AI models, optimize inference performance, and support distributed workloads involving batching, scheduling, memory management, and observability. Collaborate with scientific application teams, academic and industry partners, national laboratories, and agencies to advance AI-enabled scientific computing.

Supports the design, development, integration, and advancement of high-performance computing environments. Manages Linux clusters, software stacks, dependencies, programming environments, containers, compilers, build systems, and job resource managers. Develops automation and Spack package definitions, maintains CI pipelines, troubleshoots dependency conflicts, and collaborates with researchers to refine requirements and support scientific computing workflows. U.S. citizenship is required, and the role may require obtaining government access authorization.

Supports systems modeling, simulation, controls analysis, software verification and validation, and vehicle data analysis for advanced vehicle technology competitions. Develops MIL, SIL, and HIL workflows; evaluates hybrid and electric vehicle systems; processes automotive test data; and contributes to analysis tools, reporting frameworks, and technical guidance. Collaborates with industry, government, university, and supplier partners while mentoring student teams and delivering training on modeling, controls, software development, and engineering analysis.

Supports the design, development, integration, and optimization of Argonne’s high-performance computing environment. Responsibilities include managing Spack environments, compiling and validating scientific software across heterogeneous CPU and GPU architectures, debugging build issues, profiling and tuning applications, reporting defects to external developers, and documenting installation and optimization procedures. The role collaborates closely with researchers, domain scientists, application owners, and open-source communities.

Support multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based infrastructure for DOE's American Science Cloud. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate provisioning (Terraform/OpenTofu), operate managed clusters (EKS/AKS/GKE), implement DevSecOps controls, configure monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana/Nagios), manage image registries, and provide production operational support and vendor coordination.

Leads operations for Argonne’s Nuclear Technologies and National Security Directorate, advising the Associate Laboratory Director and managing strategic and tactical operational delivery. Oversees fiscal management, risk, safety, quality, IT, infrastructure, space planning, workforce planning, security, administration, and communications through operational managers and subject-matter experts. Develops infrastructure roadmaps, drives continuous improvement, ensures policy compliance, manages cross-functional initiatives, supervises staff, and supports research mission execution in a DOE national laboratory environment.

Develop and deploy AI/ML methods (including LLMs/agentic AI) for tuning, diagnosis, control, and automation of particle accelerators. Test methods experimentally on the APS injector and upgraded storage ring, support operator decision-making, automate workflows, and analyze beam and system data.

Develop learning-enabled imaging algorithms for 3D reconstruction and real-time adaptive acquisition of noisy synchrotron datasets; implement multimodal alignment and fusion of structural, chemical, and biological signals; collaborate with scientists across computational science, physics, biology, and environmental chemistry to guide experiments and analyze data.

Serve as division Information Assurance Representative providing expert guidance on information security compliance, safeguarding CUI and classified information, conducting reviews and classification determinations, coordinating publication and proposal reviews, enhancing review processes, and supporting Directorate security operations and policy alignment with DOE requirements.