## _What You Will Do_
* Integrates broad scientific/technical/engineering knowledge across disciplines and/or people to develop specialized, state-of-the-art technical solutions for an extensive and diverse range of complex and/or ambiguous problems where analysis requires in-depth evaluation of intangibles.
* Contributes to large-scale technical projects to solve national/international technology grand challenges. Sets or approves technical approach for solving problems and meeting client needs. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.
* Develops innovative advanced concepts, theories, methods, techniques and approaches to address specialized problems. Influences industry standards and procedures and guides their application to projects and programs. Identifies, promotes, and develops new technical capabilities within Laboratory.
* Serves as primary author of technical products such as journal papers, reports, presentations, and concept papers intended for complex-wide/national audiences. Develops intellectual property leading to publications, copyrights, and/or patents. May contribute to technology transfer.
* Influences division, product line, and/or directorate strategies and directions. Leads technical decision-making at major project level. Makes decisions and/or recommendations that guide the successful completion of major programs.
* Leads the development of scope, schedule, and budget and defines deliverables at project or program level. Manages moderate to large, complex and/or high-risk projects, involving multiple tasks, capabilities, and organizations.
* Actively participates in professional societies, complex interactions, special assignments, and/or external collaborations. Organizes internal/external working groups, meetings, and colloquia.
* Leads peer review across organizations or disciplines and participates in external peer review.
* Serves as technical resource and mentor to staff across the division. Leads mentoring and training for technical staff.
**_What You Need_
**Minimum Job Requirements:**
* Recognized within the NNSA and/ or DoD complexes as a technical authority in one or more areas of focus in the division: software infrastructure; Lagrangian and Eulerian hydrodynamics; transport and nuclear burn; materials and high explosive model development and code integration; nuclear, atomic, and equation of state databases and computational packages; plasma physics and thermonuclear burn; validation and verification.
* Demonstrated technical authority as evidenced by accomplishments in code and/or model development and talks and publications delivered to peers on work accomplished.
* Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills including clearly communicating technical information and building relationships with collaborators and users.
* A demonstrated ability to express ideas clearly in oral and written presentations.
* Demonstrated ability to lead and develop work involving multiple capabilities and organizations in one or more areas critical to XCP mission and capability areas, as summarized above.
* Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, physics, engineering, applied mathematics, or computer science.
**Work Environment:****Working alone; Working overtime or irregular schedule**
**Additional Details:**
Clearance: Q**(Position will be cleared to this level). Applicants selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation and must meet eligibility requirements* for access to classified matter.
*Eligibility requirements: To obtain a clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; U.S. citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances. See DOE Order 472.2 for additional information.
**Pre-Employment Drug Test:** The Laboratory requires successful applicants to complete a pre-employment drug test and maintains a substance abuse policy that includes random drug testing.
**Regular position:**Term status Laboratory employees applying for regular-status positions are converted to a regular status only with approval of the cognizant Principal Associate Director.
**Equal Opportunity:**Los Alamos National Laboratoryis an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome and encourage applications from the broadest possible range of qualified candidates. The Laboratory is also committed to making our workplace accessible to individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, for individuals to participate in the application and hiring process. To request such an accommodation, please send an email to applyhelp@lanl.gov or call 1-505-665-5627.
## _Where You Will Work_
Located in northern New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is primarily responsible for monitoring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and conducting research into new defense programs. It is a center for research in a wide range of scientific disciplines, including space exploration, geophysics, renewable energy, supercomputing, medicine, and nanotechnology.
XCP develops multiphysics simulation codes to support national nuclear security applications—particularly the assessment of the safety, security, and effectiveness of the stockpile and emerging threats. The division’s focus is in computational physics, developing validated codes, models, and algorithms through research in the division and integration of the Laboratory’s broader work in theory, modeling, and experiment. The successful candidate will be recognized within the NNSA complex as an expert in one or more areas of focus in the division: software infrastructure; Lagrangian and Eulerian hydrodynamics; transport and nuclear burn; materials and high explosive model development and code integration; nuclear database and computational packages; plasma physics and thermonuclear burn; validation and verification. The X-Computational Physics Division (XCP) is seeking to hire scientists and software developers with a variety of levels of experience in one or more areas of focus.
*Maximum Salary:* 177800
*Minimum Salary:* 105500
*Location:* Los Alamos, NM, US
*Contact Name:* Wallin, Scott Michael
*Organization Name:* XCP-DO/Computational Physics
*Email:* smwallin@lanl.gov
*Job Title:* Sr. Computational Physicist/Software Developer (Scientist 4)