GraduSummer Student Research Assistant - Computational Physics and Modeling Los Alamos National LaboratoryGraduSummer Student Research Assistant - Computational Physics and ModelingLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. Instructions on How to Activate/Create a LANL Jobs Account: Follow the instructions below if you have ever had an employee Z number, been a contractor, or received Los Alamos Lab insurance coverage to activate your account: Select the Click Here button if you have been employed with the Lab or received insurance coverage.
Physical Sciences Graduate Research Assistant Student Los Alamos National LaboratoryPhysical Sciences Graduate Research Assistant StudentLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. Additionally, 2D and 3D simulations using turbulence models are needed to understand the extent to which these mix effects can be captured in lower cost simulations, and how large-scale thermal instabilities in the exterior of the experiment that drive the mixing should be represented in the mix models.
Applied Mathematics Graduate Students Los Alamos National LaboratoryApplied Mathematics Graduate StudentsLos Alamos, NM$36.52–$42.36 / hourDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics (T-5) group within T-Division conducts research across a wide range of topics, including fusion science, space plasma science, numerical analysis, computational imaging, optimization, environmental sciences, and the modeling of critical infrastructure such as gas pipelines and electrical grids.
Computational Physics Post-Bachelor Student Los Alamos National LaboratoryComputational Physics Post-Bachelor StudentLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. In particular, the candidate will support efforts to improve accelerator optimization and tuning by modernizing existing software, applying physics-constrained machine learning, or developing differentiable physics simulations.
Graduate Student in Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Los Alamos National LaboratoryGraduate Student in Theoretical Biology and BiophysicsLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. New-Employment Drug Test: The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a new-employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.
Graduate Student SA 1 Los Alamos National LaboratoryGraduate Student SA 1Los Alamos, NM$36.52–$42.36 / hourDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. The group's portfolio of research projects places an emphasis on coupling advanced models and numerical methods for materials dynamics at all velocities and with coupled physical processes, including large solid deformation, multiphase flows, chemical reactions, phase change, heat and mass transfer, and combustion.
Graduate Student: Quantum and Condensed Matter Physics Los Alamos National LaboratoryGraduate Student: Quantum and Condensed Matter PhysicsLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Quantum and Condensed Matter Physics Group (T-4) in the Theoretical Division conducts both basic and applied theoretical research in a wide range of areas, including quantum matter, strongly correlated systems, quantum information science, quantum computing, quantum photonics, materials physics, nonequilibrium dynamics, statistical physics, applied energy, and atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics including opacity.
Controls Engineering Post Bachelors Student Los Alamos National LaboratoryControls Engineering Post Bachelors StudentLos Alamos, NMWork Environment: Outdoors, In confined space, heights, Underground, Working alone, Working overtime or irregular schedule, Domestic/foreign travel, operation of motor vehicles, Work with weapons or explosives, Work with vibrating equipment/machinery, Work near machinery with moving parts, toxic chemicals, irritant chemicals, dusts or powders, sprays, mists, or vapors, fumes, carcinogens, Hearing protection, Gloves or hand protection, Safety shoes or protective foot-gear, Headgear or head protection, safety glasses or eye protection, face shield or facial protection, Mask or respirator. Due to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Post-Masters Student in Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Los Alamos National LaboratoryPost-Masters Student in Theoretical Biology and BiophysicsLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. Degree from an accredited program in Biology, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, or other relevant STEM disciplines completed within the past 3 years with a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.2 on a 4.0 scale.
Acoustics in Enhanced Geothermal Systems Graduate Research Assistant Los Alamos National LaboratoryAcoustics in Enhanced Geothermal Systems Graduate Research AssistantLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. Our current work focuses on applied research for material characterization (solids, liquids, gases), acoustical imaging, nonlinear acoustics, acoustic separation of two-phase systems, detection of corrosion and other defects in materials and acoustically engineered materials.
Graduate Research Associate Los Alamos National LaboratoryGraduate Research AssociateLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. Identify spatial and compositional patterns in multi-element mapping datasets (e.g., gradients, segregation, inclusions, clustering, interfaces, and anomalous regions); Recommend follow-on measurement actions to maximize information gain, including: Identifying regions where additional raster scans should be performed, Suggesting locations for higher-resolution or higher-statistics scans, Proposing targeted point analyses to refine compositional estimates.
Machine Learning for Earth Science Postdoctoral Research Associate Los Alamos National LaboratoryMachine Learning for Earth Science Postdoctoral Research AssociateLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. Experience developing or applying advanced scientific machine learning methods for complex physical systems, including one or more of the following: probabilistic modeling and uncertainty quantification, data assimilation or state estimation, inverse problems, downscaling or multi-resolution modeling, causal modeling or attribution, explainable ML, physics-informed or structure-preserving architectures, and scalable analysis of large simulations, reanalysis products, remote sensing data, or observational datasets.
Undergraduate Research Associate Los Alamos National LaboratoryUndergraduate Research AssociateLos Alamos, NMThe research will involve the design, implementation, and evaluation of advanced computational algorithms that: Identify spatial and compositional patterns in multi-element mapping datasets (e.g., gradients, segregation, inclusions, clustering, interfaces, and anomalous regions); Recommend follow-on measurement actions to maximize information gain, including: Identifying regions where additional raster scans should be performed, Suggesting locations for higher-resolution or higher-statistics scans, Proposing targeted point analyses to refine compositional estimates; Optimize acquisition parameters (e.g., dwell time, step size, spatial resolution, and count-statistics proxies) to enhance data quality while respecting operational and instrument constraints; Detect and manage out-of-bounds or invalid parameter selections by incorporating safe operating limits into the decision-making framework; Integrate uncertainty quantification and data-quality metrics to prioritize measurements and avoid low-value or unreliable regions. Strong programming experience in Python, including scientific computing libraries (NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow, etc.); Experience with machine learning, AI methods, or data-driven modeling; Familiarity with uncertainty quantification, statistical inference, or Bayesian experimental design; Experience analyzing spatially resolved or imaging datasets; Demonstrated ability to design and implement modular, reproducible scientific software; Experience working with scientific instrumentation data or experimental workflows (preferred); Demonstrated ability to conduct independent and collaborative research; Strong written and oral communication skills.
Research Technologist 1/2 Los Alamos National LaboratoryResearch Technologist 1/2Los Alamos, NM$87,800–$143,000 / yearDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. Education/Experience at higher level: Position requires a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution and 5 years related experience; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience directly related to the occupation.
Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Post-Bachelor Student Los Alamos National LaboratoryTheoretical Biology and Biophysics Post-Bachelor StudentLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. New-Employment Drug Test: The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a new-employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.
Nuclear Criticality Safety Graduate Student Los Alamos National LaboratoryNuclear Criticality Safety Graduate StudentLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCS) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) seeks a graduate research assistant (GRA) to support ongoing efforts in criticality safety analyses.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Chemistry and Data Science Los Alamos National LaboratoryPostdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Chemistry and Data ScienceLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. In addition to the minimum requirements, the following qualifications are desired, and preference will be given to candidates satisfying (at least one) of them: Experience in chemical kinetics codes such as Cantera or RMG, or in running electronic structure calculations using Gaussian 16 code and/or VASP code.
Integrated Nanotechnologies Graduate Research Assistants Los Alamos National LaboratoryIntegrated Nanotechnologies Graduate Research AssistantsLos Alamos, NMDue to federal restrictions contained in the current National Defense Authorization Act, citizens of the People's Republic of China-including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau-as well as citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the Russian Federation, who are not Lawful Permanent Residents ("green card" holders) are prohibited from accessing facilities that support the mission, functions, and operations of national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities, which includes Los Alamos National Laboratory. Projects combine small and large interdisciplinary teams involved in chemical synthesis, nanodevice fabrication, optical characterization, electron microscopy characterization, nanomechanical characterization, theoretical simulation, and the bio-nano interface to predict, synthesize, and understand nanomaterials through studies that are unique to LANL experimental capabilities (https://cint.lanl.gov).
Leadership Development Specialist (Part-Time Contractor)-1 Stride, Inc.Leadership Development Specialist (Part-Time Contractor)-1Santa Fe, New MexicoThis role focuses on building leadership capacity through the creation of asynchronous learning assets, coaching resources, and strategic content aligned to instructional excellence, leadership frameworks, and school improvement priorities. Translate instructional frameworks, leadership competencies (e.g., PSEL, K12 Leadership Excellence Framework), and organizational priorities into practical, actionable content for school and district leaders.
Digital Marketing Intern - SEO Focus (Part-time) Stride, Inc.Digital Marketing Intern - SEO Focus (Part-time)Santa Fe, New MexicoYou will support multiple K12-powered schools' digital marketing efforts including website optimization, keyword research, content optimization, and technical SEO analysis. Currently working toward an undergraduate or graduate degree in Marketing, Communications, Information Technology, or another relevant field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.