Senior Laser Modeling Physicist

About the role

This position will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategies and direct efforts to interdisciplinary teams that research, design, develop, integrate, and field or enhance in performance advanced, high-energy laser systems, high-peak power lasers and high-average power laser technologies, incorporating essential new physics models and new technologies to meet priorities of evolving missions.
• Guide systems design and apply system-level engineering principles to a wide variety of advanced laser design and analysis projects using novel approaches to develop operational, system and subsystem solutions.
• Collaborate in integrated experiments in the fields of nonlinear optics, long & short pulse, high-power and high-energy laser physics, or laser secondary source generation.
• Provide solutions to complex theoretical and numerical systems models needed to corroborate or anticipate experimental results that test advanced, coupled physics and modeling capabilities in collaboration with laboratory scientists and engineers.
• Provide recommendations to leadership and technical team regarding project vision and strategy independently, with minimal supervision, while providing technical and intellectual leadership on research and development projects.
• Prepare and provide technical presentations and publications for internal and external audiences.
• Advise senior management on involved technical strategies.

Requirements

Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.

• PhD in Laser Physics, Applied Physics, general solid-state laser engineering or related technical field or the equivalent combination of education and relevant previous experience.
• Significant experience in one of more of the following technical areas: high average power laser technology; thermal and birefringence management techniques in laser systems; short and long pulse laser physics; nonlinear optics; atmospheric propagation of laser beams.
• Advanced knowledge of and significant experience with complex analytical, numerical modeling and experiments to make recommendations and lead strategies for scientific and/or technical projects.
• Significant experience in systems architecture for advanced laser design and analysis projects.
• Advanced knowledge and significant experience recommending, developing, and implementing solutions to a range of difficult and complex problems.
• Experience guiding, leading, and mentoring team members.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team environment and present and explain technical information and provide advice to management.

Qualifications

• Substantial knowledge and subject matter expertise developing highly complex state-of-the-art laser systems in an R&D environment.
• Expert level knowledge and expertise in Joule-class short pulse amplification or in hundred+ Joule-class long pulse amplification, thermal effects, or nonlinear optical effects and their respective modeling.
• Substantial experience developing and utilizing highly complex laser performance and/or laser propagation modeling codes from theoretical aspect to numerical implementation potentially in massively parallel high-performance computer systems.

Skills

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
• Significant experience in one of more of the following technical areas: high average power laser technology; thermal and birefringence management techniques in laser systems; short and long pulse laser physics; nonlinear optics; atmospheric propagation of laser beams.
• Advanced knowledge of and significant experience with complex analytical, numerical modeling and experiments to make recommendations and lead strategies for scientific and/or technical projects.
• Significant experience in systems architecture for advanced laser design and analysis projects.
• Advanced knowledge and significant experience recommending, developing, and implementing solutions to a range of difficult and complex problems.
• Experience guiding, leading, and mentoring team members.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team environment and present and explain technical information and provide advice to management.
• Substantial knowledge and subject matter expertise developing highly complex state-of-the-art laser systems in an R&D environment.
• Expert level knowledge and expertise in Joule-class short pulse amplification or in hundred+ Joule-class long pulse amplification, thermal effects, or nonlinear optical effects and their respective modeling.
• Substantial experience developing and utilizing highly complex laser performance and/or laser propagation modeling codes from theoretical aspect to numerical implementation potentially in massively parallel high-performance computer systems.

Benefits

• Flexible Benefits Package
• 401(k)
• Relocation Assistance
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)

Pay

• $175,530 - $267,060 Annually
• $175,530 - $222,564 Annually for the SES.3 level
• $210,630 - $267,060 Annually for the SES.4 level

Schedule

• Full-time

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World! Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability. Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.