Resilient Infrastructure Systems Analyst

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.

Job Description

We have multiple openings for highly qualified engineers to join our interdisciplinary team of Infrastructure System Resilience Analysts supporting analysis of the resilience of a variety of infrastructure systems to cyber, physical, and natural threats and hazards. You will apply a combination of technical depth and breadth, critical thinking, modeling and simulation, and analysis to understand complex, multi-domain problem areas and provide decision insight, communicate options and trade-offs, and facilitate the integration of new technology in support of customer missions.

Resilient Infrastructure Systems Analysts often serve to integrate across research and development teams and work directly with operational organizations. These positions are in the Computational Engineering Division (CED), within the Engineering Directorate.

These positions will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level.

You will

• Contribute to and actively participate in the conception, development, implementation, execution, and documentation of well-defined analytical questions and plans to provide decision insights to stakeholders on challenging and ambiguous infrastructure resilience problems of moderate complexity.
• Participate in and contribute to the development of analytical models, tools, and frameworks to characterize and assess key infrastructure resilience-related issues, such as infrastructure interdependencies, system-level impacts from natural hazards and intelligent adversary attacks, or risks and cost-benefit of various technology or operational solutions.
• Support team members in the development, evaluation, and application of physical and computational simulations to gain insight into moderately complex infrastructure systems.
• Utilize broad and comprehensive knowledge and leverage tools from established disciplines such as systems engineering, decision analysis, risk analysis, applied statistics and optimization, or other related fields to contribute to and actively participate in the development of innovative and creative methodologies.
• Collaborate and share relevant knowledge, analysis, and recommendations with scientists and researchers across a variety of technical disciplines, such as cybersecurity, physical security, natural hazards, and infrastructure systems.
• Balance multiple projects/tasks and priorities of customers and partners to ensure deadlines are met, while working independently with minimal direction within the scope of the assignment.
• Communicate moderately complex technical concepts to stakeholders in a concise and effective way.
• Routinely interact with technical contacts at sponsor and partner organizations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional job responsibilities, at the SES.
3 level

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to multiple diverse, technical teams of LLNL scientists and engineers to operationalize research and development advancements for LLNL national security programs, while executing projects and tasks and balancing priorities of customers and partners to ensure deadlines are met.
• Independently determine technical objectives and criteria to satisfy project deliverables and execute the appropriate technical approaches.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for program managers at sponsor and partner organizations by sharing relevant advanced level knowledge, providing opinions and recommendations on methodologies, and exerting influence as needed to…