Weapons Engineering R&D Engineer

Position: Weapons Engineering R&D Engineer 1/2
** What You Will Do*
* Are you ready to start your engineering career with a mission that matters? The Weapons Engineering Directorate at Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking passionate entry-level R&D Engineers to join our team and help shape the future of our nation's security. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, you will:

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** Innovate and Create:
** Design, analyze, and build cutting-edge tools, instruments, and systems that enable researchers to explore, monitor, test, and discover both natural and man-made phenomena.

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** Solve Critical Challenges:
** Apply engineering principles, theories, concepts, and practices to develop solutions for a broad range of technical challenges, including nuclear deterrence and threat reduction.

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** Collaborate and Contribute:
** Work alongside integrated research and development (R&D) teams to solve complex engineering problems.

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** Engage in Cutting-Edge R&D:
** Participate in the research, design, testing, analysis, verification, and validation of engineering solutions that support our R&D initiatives.

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** Advance Your

Skills:

** Learn and employ advanced technologies and analysis techniques from our world-class engineering community.

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** Adapt and Succeed:
** Thrive in a dynamic environment where you will meet evolving R&D requirements while upholding safety, security, compliance, and schedule imperatives.

Submit your application to be considered for various R&D Engineer 1 or R&D Engineer 2 positions across the Weapons Engineering Directorate. Learn about our Directorate, divisions, and groups at the Weapons Engineering website. This specific posting is for an ongoing pool, rather than for a single position that will be filled by a certain date, and candidates may be selected at any point until July 2026.

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** This position will be filled at either the R&D Engineer 1 or R&D Engineer 2 level, depending on the skills of the selected candidate.  Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if the candidate is hired at the higher level.*
* ** R&D Engineer 1 ($96,600 - $158,000)*
* The successful candidate will:

+ Assist in the research, design, testing, analysis, verification, and validation of engineering and technology solutions to support R&D initiatives

+ Develop technical approaches, using judgment within defined practices and procedures, and make technical decisions, including preliminary selections and adaptations of technical alternatives, for assigned work

+ Assist in the development of new methods, techniques, or approaches to address critical technical problems

+ Potentially contribute to the development of technical products such as journal papers and reports

+ Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with specific projects and directly contribute to the achievement of programmatic objectives

+ Take responsibility for understanding tasks and own contributions to deliverables, set direction and goals for assigned tasks, and manage their own assignments

+ Give presentations at discipline-specific meetings and colloquia, and may participate in professional societies, National Nuclear Security Administration/Department of Energy complex interactions, special assignments, and/or external special interest groups

+ Continuously develop technical expertise and knowledge within the discipline, and acquire new skills in related disciplines, potentially attaining additional certifications and/or qualifications, including more advanced educational degrees

+ Assure safety and security compliance, maintain required training, and integrate safety and security into every task, including stopping work if it is unsafe or compromises security

+ May receive general instructions and technical guidance, with objectives defined and both in-process work and results subject to supervisory review, and may direct the work of junior staff

** R&D Engineer 2 ($106,400 - $176,000)*
* In addition to the duties outlined at the lower level, the successful candidate will:

+ Contribute to the research, design, testing, analysis, verification, and validation of engineering and technology solutions in support of R&D initiatives

+ Apply and interpret, on a broad basis, existing discipline-specific engineering and scientific principles, techniques, methods and tools to provide solutions for a wide assortment of complex problems

+ Develop new methods or techniques, using creativity in applying standard practices and procedures, which lead to new or improved capabilities

+ Assist in the development of technical products such as journal papers, reports, and intellectual property

+ Set direction and goals for well-defined tasks involving more than one person, scope tasks within a project, and lead specific project tasks to meet scope, schedule and budget

+ Actively participate in professional societies, National Nuclear Security Administration/Department of Energy complex interactions, and external working groups, and may assist in organizing meetings and colloquia

+ Provide…