RD Research Staff in Tokamak Boundary Interactions (Experienced)

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

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If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Salary Range:

$116,600 - $229,500

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a R&D Physics research staff member (job title: R&D S&E, Physics) to join our department!

You will be a member of Sandia’s team working on plasma diagnostics and boundary physics within the Experimental Science and Operations groups at DIII-D and will coordinate fusion related material testing on DIII-D with Sandia fusion energy researchers at Sandia’s Livermore, CA, and Albuquerque, NM, sites.

Sandia's fusion energy program is involved in the study of the critical boundary physics of the tokamak scrape-off-layer and divertor, including the optimization of plasma performance using advanced divertor structures and boundary control techniques, and the interactions of the boundary particle flux and heat flux with plasma facing materials. Your primary duty will be to maintain the operation of existing edge diagnostics and to install new diagnostics, including arrays of edge-mounted Langmuir probes, fast thermocouples, and H-microsensors for measuring charge-exchange neutrals. A broad research community of DIII-D scientists and collaborators around the world utilize this facility and add to the rich working environment at DIII-D.

To find out about the exciting research conducted at DIII-D, please visit https://www.ga.com/magnetic-fusion/diii-d .

Qualifications We Require:

• PhD in physical sciences, engineering, or other relevant field

• Knowledge and expertise in plasma physics

• Knowledge and expertise in scientific data acquisition and analysis

Qualifications We Desire:

• Experience in edge plasma diagnostics

• Experience with electronic sensors, circuits, and power supplies

• Expertise in computer coding

• Expertise in materials science and materials characterization techniques

• Experience in performing cooperative research

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

About Our Team:

The Plasma & Reacting Flow Science department at Sandia primarily works on projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science to address needs surrounding both high temperature and low temperature plasma phenomena, combusting flows, reacting gas-solid interfaces, uncertainty quantification (UQ), and related topics such as scientific machine learning. We operate state-of-the-art experimental laboratories, conduct work at the DIII-D tokamak, and utilize both local computer clusters and the DOE Leadership Class supercomputers to conduct massively parallel simulations.

About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide

• Extraordinary co-workers

• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world

• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities

• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)

• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

Job ID: 688137