National Ignition Facility User Office Director - Security Clearance Required

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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.

We have an opening for a Director to lead the National Ignition Facility (NIF) User Office and serve as the institutional interface for all external and internal scientific users of the facility. In this role, you will develop and manage the governance, policies, scheduling processes, and stakeholder engagement mechanisms that enable NIF to support mission-aligned experiments in support of the Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP), comprising High Energy Density and Inertial Confinement Fusion science, National Security Applications (NSA), Direct Laser Impulse (DLI) and Discovery Science (DS).

You will work closely with the NIF Director and the NIF senior management team to balance multi-program demands, guide experiment solicitation and evaluation, and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, laboratory partners, academia, and other scientific users. This position is in the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science (NIF&PS) Directorate.

• Develop and establish operational and facility policies governing user access, proposal submission, publication practices, training development and compliance, and information management and data handling for experiments conducted at NIF.
• Lead the annual proposal solicitations and peer review processes for experimental campaigns across the SSP, NSA, DLI and DS mission areas, working with review committees, sponsors, and scientific disciplines to ensure technical merit and feasibility.
• Participates in the development of the facility use plan and integrated experiment schedule, coordinating with campaign leads, program sponsors, and operations to align priorities with facility availability and national security objectives.
• Serve as the primary point-of-contact for the user community, working to understand and advocate for external and internal stakeholder needs, including academic, DOE/NNSA, DoD, and international science partners.
• Manage experimental readiness and organizational execution planning in coordination with NIF operations, ensuring compliance with safety, security, and programmatic requirements.
• Serve as the primary systems engineer point-of-contact for the suite of data system tool suite used for NIF experiment proposals, management and approvals.
• Develop and establish user and student engagement strategies, including annual NIF/JLF Users Group meeting, advisory groups, workshops, and governance forums that support long-term facility planning, education and capability development.
• Represent the User Office to Laboratory leadership, the NNSA, other national laboratories, universities, and government agencies, providing updates on user engagement, scheduling, performance, and scientific outcomes.
• Provide briefings, reports, and recommendations to NIF leadership, NNSA sponsors, external advisory committees, and user councils on facility utilization and performance, program balance, and community needs.
• Delegate assignments to User Office staff responsible for user logistics, communications, scheduling coordination, site access, and experiment documentation.
• Promote a culture of scientific excellence, collaboration, professionalism, and transparency across the user community and within the User Office.
• Promote experimental work and findings performed on the NIF.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• This position requires an active Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance or active Top-Secret clearance issued by another U.S. government agency at the time of hire.
• PhD in physics, engineering, or a related field, or the equivalent…