Jobs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Performs complex budgetary analysis, resource management, workforce and operating plan development, funding and cost analysis, variance research, and financial forecasting. Provides financial consultation, develops institutional metrics, supports audits and self-assessments, drafts policies, and advises management on financial standards and processes. Represents the organization in working groups and collaborates with Laboratory, DOE, NNSA, and other stakeholders to resolve complex financial and business issues.

Leads LLNL’s financial stewardship, budgeting, accounting, treasury, acquisition strategy, internal controls, and enterprise business operations across a $4 billion organization. Serves as Treasurer of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, advises executive leadership, oversees public-fund management and federal compliance, and represents the laboratory to DOE and NNSA. The CFO will lead a 300–350-person Finance and Acquisition Services organization while modernizing financial systems, improving data quality, and enabling automation and AI-supported workflows.

Manage knowledge archiving, digitization, research-support, and legacy technical-material access services. Oversee staff, governance, prioritization, metadata coordination, repository integration, FOIA workflows, stakeholder engagement, budgets, and strategic planning. Ensure compliance with digitization and permanent-records standards, resolve operational issues, develop roadmaps, and improve service quality across Strategic Deterrence knowledge programs.

Manage project controls for nuclear security programs by developing resource-loaded schedules, maintaining cost and earned value data, analyzing performance and variances, preparing forecasts and sponsor reports, and supporting baseline change control. The role coordinates with project teams and leadership, maintains project controls procedures, produces ad hoc analyses, and uses Primavera P6, Excel, and laboratory financial systems. The position requires eligibility for a DOE Q-level security clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Conduct postdoctoral research applying AI and machine learning to computational biology. Develop models and workflows for integrating bulk, single-cell, spatial, and multimodal omics data; train foundation and self-supervised models; analyze sequencing datasets; and identify molecular patterns linked to disease, immunity, and resilience. Collaborate with multidisciplinary scientists, present findings, publish peer-reviewed research, and contribute to project design and execution.

Undergraduate interns will support engineering research and development projects involving conceptual design, diagnostics, manufacturing principles, data analysis, and product development. They will work with mentors, assist engineers and scientists, document technical results, communicate findings, and complete technical assignments under close supervision. Candidates should be enrolled in or recently completed an associate or bachelor's program in mechanical engineering technology, electrical engineering technology, design/drafting, or a related technical field.

Leads a multidisciplinary organization of approximately 90 engineers, technicians, and technical leaders supporting NIF target systems, diagnostics, final optics, and experimental equipment. Oversees safe operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, configuration management, reliability, upgrades, workforce planning, budgets, and 24/7 operational readiness. Establishes priorities and resource strategies, resolves complex engineering challenges, manages radiological safety and work control, and partners with experimenters, engineering groups, and senior stakeholders to support current and future fusion experiments.

Undergraduate interns support engineering research and development projects in mechanical, electrical, or design-related technologies. Responsibilities include technical assignments, data gathering and analysis, engineering support, research under supervision, use of discipline-specific software, and documenting and communicating results. Interns work full-time onsite for 10–12 weeks, collaborate with mentors and technical staff, and participate in seminars and facility activities.

Graduate interns support engineering research, conceptual design, analysis, and technology-development projects within LLNL’s Defense Technologies Engineering Division. Working with mentors, interns conduct assigned research, provide technical support, document and communicate results, and collaborate with engineering teams. Relevant disciplines include mechanical, electrical, systems, materials, manufacturing, and test engineering. The role is full-time onsite and requires U.S.-person eligibility under export-control rules.

Support Cyber Security Operations Center infrastructure by monitoring systems, responding to and hunting threats, analyzing intrusion detection data, managing vulnerabilities, and supporting incident recovery. Develop Python-based software, scripts, and automation across Linux, UNIX, Windows, and cloud environments. Higher-level responsibilities include improving incident response and vulnerability management processes, managing technical priorities, and providing cybersecurity guidance.

Manages SEM, FIB, and dual-beam FIB/SEM laboratory capabilities, including instrument operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, radiologically controlled sample handling, workflow development, data management, scheduling, safety, user training, and vendor coordination. Advances microscopy automation, image analysis, machine learning, and data-processing capabilities while providing technical leadership for complex characterization and sample-preparation work.

Coordinates electrical design, installation, retirement, maintenance, cooling, and power operations for a multi-megawatt HPC data center. Manages outages, drawings, procedures, vendors, craft activities, safety controls, facility approvals, documentation, and multiple competing projects. Provides technical support for electrical, mechanical, controls, and building management systems while optimizing reliability, energy efficiency, cost, and facility uptime. The role requires full-time onsite work and eligibility for a DOE Q-level security clearance.

Provides advanced executive assistant support to senior government and external affairs leaders. Responsibilities include managing complex confidential calendars, coordinating meetings and events, preparing sensitive documents and reports, arranging domestic travel, handling expense reports, conducting research, supporting administrative projects, and representing leadership with government, laboratory, congressional, and external stakeholders. Requires discretion with classified information, strong prioritization, communication, organization, and technology skills.

Provides technical leadership for large-scale Lustre and ZFS parallel file-system software in a production HPC environment. Responsibilities include developing and integrating software fixes, upstream patches, and enhancements; diagnosing complex performance, scalability, and reliability issues; defining storage architecture and technical roadmaps; evaluating system solutions; mentoring staff; and influencing technical decisions across multidisciplinary teams.

Leads LLNL’s 3,000-person Engineering Directorate, setting strategic direction, sustaining advanced engineering capabilities, overseeing facilities and budgets, securing external funding, and managing workforce development. Partners with government, academia, industry, and laboratory leadership to advance engineering rigor, quality, safety, digital engineering, AI, advanced manufacturing, and multidisciplinary national-security initiatives. Requires extensive senior leadership experience in large-scale mission-oriented R&D organizations, engineering expertise, and DOE/NNSA enterprise knowledge.

Design, model, analyze, and document complex optical systems for high-energy lasers, diagnostics, imaging, and beam transport. Perform optical tolerancing, error budgeting, stray-light and ghost analysis, requirements development, fabrication and inspection planning, and issue diagnosis. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and present technical results. Higher-level responsibilities include leading optical designs, advanced physical-optics simulations, scripting, design reviews, and technical leadership.

Administers employee leave and benefits processes, including FMLA, CFRA, disability, paid leave, accommodations, return-to-work coordination, supplemental pay, premium billing, and compliance documentation. Provides counseling to employees and managers, maintains confidential records, interprets applicable laws, resolves benefits issues, supports audits and reporting, and may assist with benefits implementation, training, and open enrollment.

Lead complex optical metrology evaluations, experiments, test-method development, instrument analysis, and precision measurement capability improvements. Analyze vendor and historical data, evaluate optics and photonics components, configure optical systems, oversee metrology process improvements, recommend equipment strategies, mentor technical staff, and manage project schedules. At the higher level, serve as the optical metrology subject-matter expert and lead lifecycle strategies for large precision metrology systems.

Analyzes and improves business and technical processes, workflows, and requirements for IT and NNSA initiatives. Develops future-state solutions, process maps, proposals, reports, and data visualizations; identifies process gaps and coordinates implementation across multidisciplinary teams. Serves as a liaison between business, project, and technical stakeholders, facilitates decision-making, supports system integrations, and may lead complex initiatives, mentor staff, and train others.

Conduct computational structural biology research developing deep learning models to predict protein-protein interactions, specificity, and structure in host-pathogen systems. Collaborate with computational and experimental biologists, develop sequence and structure analysis tools, publish findings, prepare reports and proposals, present research, and coordinate with external partners through occasional travel.