Jobs at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Leads administrative operations across a scientific directorate, supervising and developing administrative staff, allocating resources, standardizing processes, and supporting executive leadership. Oversees complex personnel, procurement, finance, travel, facilities, records, communications, meetings, and shared services while ensuring policy and DOE compliance. Analyzes organizational information, prepares reports and recommendations, resolves sensitive operational issues, and builds collaborative partnerships across laboratory organizations.

Provides enterprise application architecture leadership across Brookhaven National Laboratory’s business application portfolio. Responsibilities include developing technology roadmaps, leading modernization and cloud adoption, establishing architecture standards and governance, reviewing solution architectures, evaluating platforms and software, reducing technical debt, advising leadership, and mentoring architects and senior engineers. The role partners with business stakeholders, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, sustainable technology solutions.

Leads the Beam Instrumentation and Controls section supporting the design, construction, commissioning, operation, maintenance, and modernization of accelerator systems. Oversees engineering teams, technical scope, budgets, schedules, staffing, organizational development, safety, quality, compliance, procurement, and project delivery. Provides technical stewardship across system lifecycles, manages risks and performance, and collaborates with scientists, engineers, project managers, vendors, DOE reviewers, and external stakeholders.

Conduct fundamental and applied research in embodied AI, agentic AI, robotics, robotic foundation models, world models, simulations, perception, control, manipulation, and interaction. Develop and evaluate AI/ML models, collaborate across interdisciplinary teams, publish findings, communicate research outcomes, and support proposals and partnerships. The position is fully onsite at Brookhaven National Laboratory and requires a recently awarded Ph.D. in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.

Design and integrate digital ASICs and SoC architectures for scientific instrumentation, including RTL development, reusable IP, timing and power analysis, verification coordination, physical implementation, FPGA prototyping, and laboratory characterization. The role supports radiation-tolerant, low-power, high-speed readout systems for particle detectors, photon sciences, quantum information, and other research programs. It requires collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering and scientific teams in a fully onsite national laboratory environment.

Leads Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Accelerator Division, overseeing RHIC operations and the transition to EIC commissioning and long-term operations. Responsibilities include strategic and technical leadership, accelerator reliability, maintenance, infrastructure modernization, operational readiness, safety and regulatory compliance, budget stewardship, workforce development, stakeholder engagement, and DOE mission alignment. The role manages approximately 75 professionals and a $60 million annual operating budget.

Provides executive leadership for Brookhaven National Laboratory’s EIC Technical Division, overseeing more than 300 engineering and technical staff. Directs accelerator-system design, procurement, fabrication, installation, testing, commissioning, operations, maintenance, modernization, budgets exceeding $200 million, safety, quality, compliance, workforce planning, and project delivery. Serves as the principal technical interface with laboratory leadership, DOE sponsors, project teams, vendors, partner institutions, and external stakeholders.

Leads Brookhaven National Laboratory’s enterprise talent management and human capital strategy. Advises the CHRO and senior leadership on workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, succession planning, performance management, change management, and employee experience. Establishes workforce metrics and analytics, drives organization-wide transformation and operational excellence, partners with external stakeholders, and leads a multidisciplinary HR and training team.

Develop machine-learning algorithms for synchrotron data acquisition and online processing, organize data and metadata standards, and conduct original AI research for NSLS-II science programs. Collaborate with scientists, engineers, users, and sponsors to deploy and disseminate AI tools for light-source applications. Work includes data distribution, analysis-tool integration, and interdisciplinary open-source scientific development.

Leads Lean Six Sigma and DMAIC process improvement initiatives across laboratory business units. Facilitates cross-functional teams, maps current and future workflows in Microsoft Visio, identifies efficiency opportunities, manages improvement project lifecycles, tracks metrics, supports change management, and develops standard operating procedures. The role also builds process improvement capabilities, reports results, and advances quality, safety, and customer satisfaction.

Develops, analyzes, commissions, operates, troubleshoots, and repairs mechanical components and subsystems for RF cavities, transmitters, cryogenic plants, and utility systems. Responsibilities include mechanical design, simulation, procurement, fabrication, installation, documentation, maintenance planning, cryogenic system support, and operational troubleshooting. The engineer collaborates with multidisciplinary teams and provides limited off-hours support for mission-critical issues.

Lead a team of electrical engineers and technicians to design, integrate, and operate AC power systems, power-supply cables, cable trays, and rack plants for the EIC. Serve as Control Account Manager tracking schedule, cost, and earned-value metrics; manage fabrication, standards, quality control, documentation, and cross-disciplinary coordination. Ensure compliance with codes, safety, and project processes through design, procurement, installation, and commissioning support.

Support data center infrastructure and scientific computing systems: install and manage computer and storage hardware, assist with asset management and DCIM, participate in off-hours support, and help maintain operational readiness for large-scale HPC and data-processing environments.

Design and document complex mechanical components and systems for an accelerator using 3D CAD; produce fabrication drawings to ANSI Y14.5; support fabrication, testing, installation and commissioning; lead/coordinate project design efforts and mentor drafting staff; participate in design and safety reviews and collaborate with scientists, engineers, and technical staff.

Lead delivery of the Hadron Storage Ring WBS within cost, schedule, and technical baselines. Manage multidisciplinary teams for design, procurement, fabrication, installation, and commissioning. Maintain technical baseline, interfaces, and risk mitigation; use federal project management tools (EVMS, scheduling, tracking) for cost/schedule performance. Communicate status to stakeholders and support DOE reviews while ensuring safety and quality compliance.

Conduct original research in machine learning, multimodal foundation models, continuous learning, and agentic AI. Collaborate with domain experts on scientific data problems, formulate research directions with mentors, implement and evaluate methods at scale using DOE computing resources, and communicate results to foster interdisciplinary collaborations.

Conduct interdisciplinary research in neuromorphic computing and AI/ML for scientific and security problems, develop algorithms and hardware co-design, collaborate with subject-matter experts, formulate research directions, use DOE computing resources, and communicate results and progress.

Design and validate mechanical components and systems for the Electron-Ion Collider using 3D CAD and FEA; prepare specs and SOWs; oversee procurement, fabrication, assembly, testing and installation; manage project plans, schedules, budgets; conduct design reviews and present results; collaborate with engineers, scientists, and technicians; provide engineering direction and reports.

Perform postdoctoral research to advance GridFM foundation models for electric power grids: extend capabilities to distribution networks, develop scalable graph-based ML models, expand training-data generation, create benchmarks, and evaluate, fine-tune, and deploy models with attention to uncertainty quantification, robustness, and large-scale GPU training.

Develop an AI-driven dual robotic system combining a vision-language planner with a fast reactive controller for precision fluid handling in radioisotope production. Build 3D perception for fluid-state estimation, develop reactive control methods, validate on a cold bench, collaborate across robotics, radiochemistry, and ML communities, and publish results in peer-reviewed venues.