We have an opening for a Diagnostic Physicist to develop, integrate, field, and support diagnostics that measure the dynamic response of materials at high rates and pressures. You will be responsible for multiple challenges including design of optical and electrical systems, diagnostic fielding, experiment integration, along with data collection and analysis. Your scope of work will involve working at several dynamic high-presure drive research facilities (e.g., gas guns, pulsed-power, high-explosives) with broadly defined priorities. This position is in the Materials Physics at Extremes group of the LLNL Physics Division.

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.

You will

• Design moderately complex and complex diagnostics which involve laser systems, fiber optics, imaging, and electronic systems.
• Understand the system-level big picture, diagnose complex problems, and propose solutions while working under limited direction.
• Integrate with projects from concept to operations.
• Generate and review diagnostics and safety documentation.
• Contribute to the design and analysis of diagnostics capable of measuring conditions found nowhere else on the planet.
• Contribute to high-pressure and high-temperature data collection, analysis, and publications.
• Work closely with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, and technicians both at LLNL as well as outside of LLNL, to complete project goals.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional job responsibilities, at the SES.3 level

• Lead a team of engineers and technicians to develop new state-of-the-art diagnostics systems.
• Pursue solutions with minimal direction in situations that may not be well-defined.
• Contribute to design and analysis of studies of material properties under extreme pressure and strain rate conditions. Potential research areas include, but are not limited to, the following topics: high-pressure thermal transport, unloading processes, shock produced jetting, heterogeneous materials, high-pressure chemistry and spectroscopy.