Job Description:
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.
COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate:
Sandia demonstrates its commitment to public safety in the national interest by requiring that all new hires be fully vaccinated or have an approved medical or religious accommodation before commencing employment. The requirement also applies to those who are telecommuting and working virtually.
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What Your Job Will Be Like:
Are you passionate about your work and want to join in creating state-of-the-art predictive capabilities to explore solutions? Join a diverse team that helps tackle some of the most challenging issues facing our nations security!
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Appointee to focus on computational analysis and model development. The department focuses on quantitative descriptions of multi-physics thermo-fluids environments with fire being the example of primary concern. We develop capabilities and enable new predictions of challenging phenomena over an extensive range of application-driven needs!
On any given day you may be called on to:
- Improve the predictive modeling of reacting flow environments
- Develop and validate computational models in one of the following areas: combustion turbulent flows aerosol formation and transport electrochemistry non-ideal solution chemistry multi-phase flows radiation heat transfer through participating media and/or condensed (solid) fuel combustion
- Support projects in multiple physics areas such as modeling of battery performance and safety pollutant emissions mixing and precipitation aerosol dynamics and multiphase flows
- Design experimental campaigns to obtain validation quality data
- Partner with dynamic teams engaged in experimental measurements computational algorithm development diagnostics development and massively parallel multi-physics code development
- Support a diverse range of technical activities related to turbulent flows reacting systems heat and mass transfer multiphase flows and aerosol dynamics
Join our team and achieve your dreams while making a difference!
Qualifications We Require:
- PhD conferred within 5 years prior to employment in engineering computational science or related field
- Experience in the modeling of systems in at least one of the following areas: Combustion; Turbulent flows; Explosions; Aerosol formation and transport; Electrochemistry; Non-ideal solution chemistry; Multi-phase flows; Radiation heat transfer through participating media; Condensed fuel combustion
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q level clearance
Qualifications We Desire:
- Expertise in more than a single related topic area
- Experience in areas involving stochastic variation from underlying uncertainties or directly from stochastic processes like turbulence or particle formation
- Experience with state-of-the-art numerical approaches to physics modeling including machine learning
- Understanding of quantitative application of model predictions
- Numerical application of best practice methods including verification and validation as well as uncertainty quantification for model prediction characterization
- Working knowledge of C++ and/or Python
- Experience in model implementation in large computational frameworks and the challenges of massively-parallel computational science
- Experience working with a diverse team
- Excellent interpersonal written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to obtain and maintain a sigma 15 clearance (subject to random polygraph)
About Our Team:
The Fire Science and Technology Department performs experimental and phenomenological fire research to support Sandia's national security mission. The main focus of the department is to ensure the safety and security needs of nuclear weapons in abnormal thermal environments. The department offers a spectrum of computational and experimental capabilities for addressing fire related challenges throughout the government civilian and industrial sectors. Efforts in the computational arena include development of physics-based subgrid models for phenomena important to fire dynamics detection and suppression. The department maintains and operates unique facilities for radiant heating open and enclosed large fires. These facilities are used in conjunction with new diagnostics and experimental capabilities developed and employed to provide data for discovery validation and system qualification. The group interacts extensively with complementary technical organizations in computational sciences and thermal and fluid sciences within the Center across the laboratory and with academia and government.
About Sandia:
Sandia National Laboratories is the nations 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.
Position Information:
This postdoctoral position is a temporary position for up to one year which may be renewed at Sandia's discretion up to five additional years. The PhD must have been conferred within five years prior to employment.
Individuals in postdoctoral positions may bid on regular Sandia positions as internal candidates and in some cases may be converted to regular career positions during their term if warranted by ongoing operational needs continuing availability of funds and satisfactory job performance.
Job ID: 684761
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