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Physics Data Scientist (Casual) Jefferson Lab Newport News, VA Interested Not In

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Job ID: 13505
Location: Newport News, VA
Category: Science
Division: Physics
Position Type: Casual
Education: PHD
Experience Required: 1+ year
Relocation Provided: No
Position Description
Come join our team at Jefferson Lab, where great minds matter.
CASUAL POSITION - NOT TO EXCEED 1000 HOURS IN ONE YEAR
Posting Date: 03/19/2025
Salary Range: $76,800 - $135,900 (SS-I)
Work Type: Flexible On-site (working more than 60% on-site)

What Your Job Will Be Like

The data acquisition scientist will be responsible to provide support for the development, implementation and operation of data acquisition systems for all nuclear physics experiments at the laboratory. The focus of this position is the design and coding of software and driver libraries that will interface with firmware that is specific to embedded processors in data acquisition systems. This includes trigger systems and front-end digitization hardware. The position duties also include support for the operation of data acquisition systems in the experimental Halls, hardware test stations throughout the laboratory and at collaboration institutions.

In This Role You Will

  1. Interact with the Jefferson Lab physics, computer staff, and the user community to provide support and guidance on software and database development with the goal of creating archive quality repositories.
  2. Directly support deployment and integration of AI/ML anomaly detection software within the Hall compute environments.
  3. Support the containerization and distributed computing efforts across the Experimental Halls and EIC groups.
  4. Coordinate the ongoing and future streaming readout activities with the Experimental Halls and EIC groups.
  5. Actively participate in software and database development, both personally and in an advisory role, to support the above objectives.
  6. Directly support research activities for experiments in the Halls in the areas of data analysis and HPC/Farm computing interoperability.
  7. Help develop and oversee the offline analysis workflow for selected experiments.
  8. Investigate integration of SIMD processing (CPU/GPU) into existing analysis code, and getting it deployed to production.

Qualifications

Education

  1. Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear or High Energy Physics

Experience

  1. Postdoctoral Experience in Experimental Nuclear or High Energy Physics

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

  1. Demonstrated knowledge of computational infrastructure and applications applicable to large scale experimental facilities.
  2. Operational experience with JLab-specific software like PODD, hcana, SWIF, Hydra.
  3. Experience with Nuclear / High-energy Computing environments and software toolkits is highly desired: slurm, ROOT, Rucio, XRootD, Singularity/Apptainer/Docker containers, Kubernetes, OKD, OpenShift, etc.
  4. Strong proficiency in Linux/unix command-line environments.
  5. Proven ability to promote teamwork and collaboration.
  6. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.

Three reference letters required. Please send via email to sandiego @ jlab.org.

About Jefferson Lab

Join a community with a common purpose of solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems of our time. The Jefferson Lab campus is located in southeastern Virginia amidst a vibrant and growing technology community. A career at Jefferson Lab is more than a job. You will be part of “big science” and work alongside top scientists and engineers from around the world unlocking the secrets of our visible universe. Managed by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is entering an exciting period of mission growth and is seeking new team members ready to apply their skills and passion to have an impact. You could call it work, or you could call it a mission. We call it a challenge. We do things that will change the world.

Total Rewards at Jefferson Lab

Benefits

At Jefferson Lab, we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Our benefits program includes, but is not limited to:

  1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Care Plans
  2. Flexible Spending Accounts
  3. Paid Time-off and Leave Programs (Paid Parental, vacation, holidays, and sick leave)
  4. 401(k) Plan – 9% Lab Contribution; 100% vested
  5. Flexible Work Arrangements (Remote & Alternate Work Schedules available)
  6. Tuition Assistance, Training and Professional Development Programs
  7. Live near the waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region with access to nearby beaches, mountains, and all major metropolitan centers on the East Coast.

Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA) manages and operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). JSA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, or veteran status or on any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. As part of the JSA’s equal employment opportunity policy, we also take affirmative action as called for by applicable laws and Executive Orders to ensure that minority group individuals, females, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans, Armed Forces, and qualified disabled persons are introduced into our workforce and considered for promotional opportunities.

JSA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities (unless doing so will result in an undue hardship). If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting @ jlab.org or call (757) 269-7100 to provide the nature of your request. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Employment with JSA is conditional upon DOE approval if at any time during your employment you are participating in a Foreign Government Talent Recruitment Program or Affiliated activity. Generally, such programs/activities include any foreign-state-sponsored attempt to acquire U.S.-funded scientific research through programs run or funded by the government that target scientists, engineers, students, academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs of all nationalities working or educated in the United States. This includes positions or appointments, both domestic and foreign, titled academic, professional, or institutional appointments whether or not remuneration is received and whether full-time, part-time or voluntary.

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