Nevada National Security Site (NNSS)
Rotational Data Scientist I / Data Scientist II
Are you interested in working with some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for high-hazard and highly complex experiments that help us keep the planet safe.
The NNSS’s Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate is seeking early career scientists to engage with our national security mission in research, development, and experimentation. You will have the opportunity to work on teams that ensure the security of the United States and its allies by: supporting the stewardship of the nation’s nuclear deterrent; contributing to key nonproliferation and arms control initiatives; executing national-level experiments in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s National Laboratories; working with national security partners such as the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and other federal agencies on important national security activities; and providing long-term environmental stewardship of the NNSS’s Cold War legacy.
As a member of the S&T Directorate’s Computing & Data Sciences division, you will work collaboratively with a diverse group of colleagues on challenging problems of national significance, with opportunities to work in the experimental field and engage with a broader team of scientists and engineers. Multiple positions are available across a spectrum of experience levels, with benefits and requirements requisite with experience and educational background.
Data Scientist I
- Have experience with, or interest in learning, at least one of the following areas:
- Developing and applying state-of-the-art analysis techniques to laboratory and field research. Areas of interest include software engineering, software design, mathematical modeling, statistics, Bayesian analysis, machine learning, applied physics, numerical analysis, uncertainty quantification, experiment design, edge computing, and algorithm development for communications in harsh environments.
- Learning and running existing analysis codes to plan and analyze experiments and incorporate experimental data analysis techniques.
- Develop algorithms, field experiments, and deploy analysis techniques to experiment data from complex diagnostic measurement systems.
- Actively participate with scientific, engineering, and technical teams supporting experimental platforms, including the Subcritical Experiment Program in the underground U1a Complex.
- Fulfill project objectives as a in highly multidisciplinary teams exercising sound judgment in collaboration with peers.
- Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within the program.
- Perform other duties assigned by Management.
