Research Professional - Data Acquisition and Signal Analysis

Requisition Id 14194 

Overview:  

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an extraordinary 80-year history of solving the nation’s biggest problems. We have a dedicated and creative staff of over 6,000 people! Our vision for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is to cultivate an environment and practices that foster diversity in ideas and in the people across the organization, as well as to ensure ORNL is recognized as a workplace of choice. These elements are critical for enabling the execution of ORNL’s broader mission to accelerate scientific discoveries and their translation into energy, environment, and security solutions for the nation.

We are currently seeking a research professional to join the Signals Collections and Analysis Group in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Division (NND), National Security Sciences Directorate (NSSD) at ORNL. tThis position supports a broad array of research efforts for nuclear nonproliferation applications, targeting the development of advanced data acquisition techniques, control systems, and data analysis in post-processing and real-time environments. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated and creative problem solver, comfortable handling complex programming and data acquisition needs to produce customized solutions for challenging nonproliferation problems.

 

The NSSD at ORNL leads ground-breaking research to address critical threats to national security. Leveraging a diverse array of capabilities in nuclear nonproliferation, data analytics, cybersecurity, cyber-physical resiliency, geospatial science, and high-performance computing, our organization seeks to produce world-class S&T products for sensitive national security missions.

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Design, assemble, and deploy custom high-speed data acquisition systems, to include NI PXI and CompactRIO platforms.
• Develop high-speed data analysis algorithms, both in post-processing and for real-time display.
• Design custom electrical circuitry to satisfy project needs.
• Work with a cross-disciplinary team of engineers, scientists, and technicians to plan, implement, and interpret results from experimental campaigns.
• Conceive, write, and submit proposals to expand a research program investigating signal collection and analysis for nuclear nonproliferation objectives.
• Compile and submit reporting on experimental results for technical and nontechnical personnel.
• All team members deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.

 

Basic Qualifications:

• MS in electrical engineering, physics, nuclear engineering, chemistry, or a related field and seven (7) years of relevant experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Experience programming with LabVIEW and Python, to include signal collection and analysis capabilities.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with the nuclear nonproliferation mission space.
• An interest in working in the national security mission space, which often limits external peer-reviewed publication opportunities.
• Proven ability to operate at a high level in a dynamic research environment, adapting to new research directions and setting priorities accordingly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in developing real-time display of process data using the programming languages mentioned above.