Senior Laser Modeling Physicist
Core
Provide technical direction and lead the research, design, and modeling of advanced high-energy laser systems for the Department of Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Role type
Senior IC laser modeling physicist (fusion energy)
Builds
State-of-the-art high-intensity, long and short pulse laser systems for the National Ignition Facility (NIF)
Domain
Fusion energy + high-power laser physics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
nonlinear optics, high average power laser technology, thermal and birefringence management, short and long pulse laser physics, atmospheric propagation of laser beams, complex analytical and numerical modeling, systems architecture for advanced laser design
Preferred skills
Joule-class short pulse amplification, hundred+ Joule-class long pulse amplification, massively parallel high-performance computer systems implementation
Technologies
fiber or free-space nonlinear optics models, massively parallel high-performance computer systems
Responsibilities
Provide strategies to interdisciplinary teams for developing high-energy laser systems; guide systems design using system-level engineering principles; collaborate in integrated experiments in nonlinear optics and laser physics; provide solutions to complex theoretical and numerical systems models; advise senior management on technical strategies; lead and mentor team members
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership