Posting TitleIT Professional – Advanced Computing.LocationCO - Golden.Position TypeLimited Term (Fixed Term).Hours Per Week40.Working at NRELThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our ten employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.NREL supports inclusive, diverse, and unbiased hiring practices that promote creativity and innovation. By collaborating with organizations that focus on diverse talent pools, reaching out to underrepresented demographics, and providing an inclusive application and interview process, our Talent Acquisition team aims to hear all voices equally. We strive to attract a highly diverse workforce and create a culture where every employee feels welcomed and respected and they can be their authentic selves.Our planet needs us! Learn about NREL’s critical objectives, and see how NREL is focused on saving the planet.Note: Research suggests that potential job seekers may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage anyone who is interested in this opportunity to apply. We seek dedicated people who believe they have the skills and ambition to succeed at NREL to apply for this role.Job DescriptionThe Complex Systems Simulation and Optimization Group in the NREL Computational Science Center has an opening for a full-time advanced computing professional with competencies in scalable advanced computing and cloud frameworks, who will enable the effective utilization and creation of scalable accelerated applications, software, and/or workflows in support of clean energy research with on-premise hardware and in the cloud.The successful candidate will collaborate with NREL staff and researchers on efforts to effectively carry out research and development from the atomic to the national scale utilizing NREL’s advanced computing capabilities in a hybrid cloud setting. They will be part of small teams, guiding technical leadership in identifying, designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting solutions for research and development on advanced, scalable, accelerated computing hardware, which may require consideration of parallel application and workflow deployment and support, cloud architectures, computer hardware and library performance, and/or advanced programming requirements.Job duties and responsibilities of the position include:<ul><li>Operations and research support: identify, configure, debug, deploy, and support frameworks and workflows on scalable, accelerated advanced computing hardware and cloud architectures centered on simulations, optimization, and machine learning.</li><li>Collaboration with researchers: Collaborate with scientists, engineers and analysts on enabling utilization of advanced, scalable computing systems for NREL mission goals.</li><li>Hybrid Cloud pathways: design, implement, support and document multiple pathways toward supporting python at scale on NREL hybrid cloud including mpi4py on advanced networks.</li><li>Containerized workflows: design, develop, implement, and support containerized workflows in a hybrid cloud setting.</li><li>Design, develop, implement, and support web technology deployment that rely on scalable compute and data intensive workflows.</li><li>Workflow architecture: architect scientific, engineering and analysis workflows for hybrid-cloud setting including advanced scalable frameworks and systems.</li></ul>.Basic QualificationsRelevant Bachelor's Degree and 5 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 3 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience. Or, relevant PhD or equivalent relevant education/experience. Complete understanding and wide application of principles, concepts and techniques in specific field. General knowledge of related IS disciplines. Strong leadership and project management skills. Skilled in analytical techniques, practices and problem solving. Advanced programming, design and analysis abilities with various computer software programs and information systems.* Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.Additional Required QualificationsPreferred Qualifications<ul><li>An interest in renewable energy, energy efficiency and supporting technologies; wind, solar, vehicles, biomass, hydrogen, buildings, batteries, and electric grid technologies.</li><li>Background and experience in managing software dependencies in HPC and Cloud environments with commons tools such as Modules, Conda, Spack, and containerization.</li><li>Background and experience in developing workflows, including job scheduler integration, data management of big datasets, data movement, and data availability/sharing with remote users and systems.</li><li>Experience in python software libraries and frameworks including high performance mpi4py.</li><li>Experience programming in Python and Unix Shell.</li><li>Experience with hybrid cloud computing including Amazon Web Services and dynamically scaling execution of compute intensive workloads in the cloud.</li><li>Experience in containerization and scaling including Docker and Apptainer.</li><li>Experience with database architecture and administration including PostgresSQL and MongoDB.</li><li>Experience with utilizing NodeJS, JavaScript and other Web technologies.</li><li>Software engineering expertise coding and testing patterns, version control and CI/CD, engineering software platforms and large-scale simulation, learning and data workflows especially using open-source tools.</li></ul>.Job Application Submission WindowThe anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)Job Profile: IT Professional III / Annual Salary Range: $95,500 - $171,900Job Profile: IT Professional II / Annual Salary Range: $79,600 - $143,300NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.Benefits SummaryBenefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short- and long-term disability insurance; pension benefits; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&amp;D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; paid holidays; and tuition reimbursement. NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.* Based on eligibility rulesDrug Free WorkplaceNREL is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act and complies with federal laws prohibiting the possession and use of illegal drugs. Under federal law, marijuana remains an illegal drug.If you are offered employment at NREL, you must pass a pre-employment drug test prior to commencing employment. Unless prohibited by state or local law, the pre-employment drug test will include marijuana. If you test positive on the pre-employment drug test, your offer of employment may be withdrawn.Submission GuidelinesPlease note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at NREL you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application..EEO PolicyNREL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic partner status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.EEO is the Law (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm) | Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination (https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_English_unformattedESQA508c.pdf) | Reasonable Accommodations (http://www.nrel.gov/careers/employment-policies.html)E -Verify www.dhs.gov/E-Verify For information about right to work, click here (http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2013/08/13/FinalOSCPosterEN08_01_2013.pdf) for English or here (http://www.justice.gov/crt/file/813271/download) for Spanish.E-Verify is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This business uses E-Verify in its hiring practices to achieve a lawful workforce.

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IT Professional – Advanced Computing

<h3>Infrastructure Engineer</h3>  About the CompanyKoBold Metals is a rapidly growing Silicon Valley start-up using AI to enable the transition to electrification and help solve climate change. We are backed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a16z, Bond Capital, Sam Altman, T Rowe Price, and other premier VCs.Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, software engineering, and business personnel. KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists have made nearly 20 discoveries. They work on joint teams with outstanding data scientists, who have PhDs in physics, math, materials science, and geophysics. And our technology backbone has been built from scratch by our team of software engineers who are alumni of top Silicon Valley tech companies.KoBold is privately held and our investors include: institutional asset managers T. Rowe Rice and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Standard Investments, and Sam Altman’s Apollo Projects; and leading natural resources companies Equinor, Mitsubishi, and BHP.We are hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to help accelerate our mission. About the positionIn this role, you will architect and deploy software to accelerate discovery of battery metals and to help construct the global geoscience data system that underlies our digital exploration program. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and will work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists. You will be responsible for helping us build reliable and secure infrastructure while contributing broadly across our technology stack. Ultimately, your role is to help build data tools to solve challenging scientific problems and to enable the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build these tools from the ground up.ResponsibilitiesThe Infrastructure Engineer will:<ul><li>Help develop KoBold’s proprietary data system, TerraShed®, and modeling software, Machine Prospector®</li><li>Design and implement infrastructure for distributed parallel ML and scientific computing</li><li>Design, implement, and maintain security protocols for highly proprietary data</li><li>Design components of the data system to ingest, store, process, and access a large volume and wide variety of geoscience data for both predictive modeling and visualization</li></ul> QualificationsA great Infrastructure Engineer candidate will have:<ul><li>Expertise in at least one programming language (KoBold’s primary language is Python, but a candidate with expertise in, e.g., Go or Ruby will still be competitive)</li><li>Experience designing and deploying systems in the cloud on AWS, GCP, or Azure and defining those systems with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation</li><li>Experience with Kubernetes</li><li>Experience designing, deploying, and managing monitoring and alerting systems against well-defined service metrics (e.g. SLO, SLA)</li><li>Experience building systems to develop, deploy, and instrument machine learning models, particularly in Kubeflow or similar frameworks</li><li>Prior responsibility for planning and implementing information security measures</li></ul> A great Infrastructure Engineer candidate will also be:<ul><li>Motivated to build and maintain systems that meet challenging infrastructure requirements and to work closely with engineering colleagues on a broad set of infrastructure problems</li><li>Excited to work on a wide range of problems, and to take on a wide range of responsibilities, learning new tech tools whenever needed</li><li>Highly intellectually curious and eager to learn from technical experts who aren’t solely software engineers</li><li>Keen not just to build products, but to figure out what product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company</li><li>Highly self-motivated and autonomous, able to effectively structure one’s own work, make realistic time estimates, and communicate well as one progresses</li><li>Focused on making decisions about risk based on practical considerations and a deep understanding of the company’s business, rather than on compliance checklists or blind adherence to a preferred set of practices</li><li>A clear technical writer, reflecting a deep understanding of what guidance users/colleagues need to effectively and efficiently use the systems you build</li><li>Careful to get the details right</li></ul>It is helpful but not required to have:<ul><li>Experience with geospatial databases, analyses, and/or visualizations</li><li>Expertise in designing and deploying container-based software in Kubernetes</li><li>A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in the physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics</li></ul> Level: This is an individual contributor role. This position requires a minimum of 2-3 years of relevant full-time professional work experience; recent bachelor’s/master’s candidates are unlikely to be competitive. KoBold Metals® is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.This position is full-time, exempt.Location: KoBold® is a remote first workplace, we are open to candidates currently residing anywhere in the United States or Canada. All candidates must be authorized to legally work in either the United States for CanadaThe US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $110,000-$170,000.

AI-powered KoBold Metals® is revolutionizing electrification and combatting climate change with breakthrough discoveries and top-tier industry talent.

Infrastructure Engineer

<div>Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has the fastest, lowest cost path to commercial fusion energy.</div><div> </div><div>CFS collaborates with MIT to leverage decades of research combined with groundbreaking new high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology. HTS magnets will enable compact fusion power plants that can be constructed faster and at lower cost. Our mission is to deploy these power plants to meet global decarbonization goals as fast as possible. To that end, CFS has assembled a team of leaders in tough tech, fusion science, and manufacturing with a track record of rapid execution. Supported by the world’s leading investors, CFS is uniquely positioned to deliver limitless, clean, fusion power to combat climate change. To implement this plan, we are looking to add dedicated people to the team who treat people well, improve our work by adding multifaceted perspectives and new ways of solving problems, have achieved outstanding results through a range of pursuits, and have skills and experience related to this role.</div><div> </div><div>The CFS Information Technology team is on a mission to build a modern and fully digital environment to support the CFS mission.</div><div> </div><div>This role is responsible for building and supporting the CFS IT infrastructure from the ground up. This individual will work with their IT colleagues to provide technology expertise and services, and as we grow the organization with an objective of achieving continuous improvement of the service we provide.</div><div> </div><div>Infrastructure Engineering at CFS is a team whose focus is designing, deploying, and operating the foundational systems and platforms on which CFS’s services run. Bringing fusion to the grid requires engineers with expertise in distributed systems architecture, infrastructure as a service, data durability, and information security best practices. </div><div> </div><div>On this team, you’ll need a strong focus and desire to learn new systems and services, an intuition for technology, the ability to think outside the box, and familiarity with wide scope IT infrastructure. In this role at CFS, you’ll have a direct impact on bringing commercial clean fusion energy to the grid!</div> <h3>This team member will:</h3><ul><li>Architecting, deploying, and maintaining solutions on AWS</li><li>Implementing and managing complex networking both on-prem and in-cloud</li><li>Designing, installing, and maintaining on-prem data centers</li><li>Managing Windows, Linux, and Mac computers and servers with a deep understanding of managing systems at scale in an enterprise</li><li>Scripting and Automation experience</li><li>Architecting and deploying HPC capabilities</li><li>Applying infrastructure and security best practices to existing and new systems</li><li>Supporting and solutioning for scientific computing</li><li>Deep understanding of idP driven architecture</li><li>Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining OT networks</li><li>Understanding of OT and manufacturing best practices</li></ul><h3>The ideal candidate will have most, if not all, of these requirements:</h3><ul><li>No formal education required</li><li>Certifications in AWS and Networking are welcome such as AWS Solutions Architect or Fortinet NSE4+</li><li>Ability and passion to learn by doing</li><li>Deep experience in AWS, General Infrastructure, Enterprise Networking, Linux and Windows Sysadmin, and/or SRE</li><li>Automation and scripting experience</li></ul><h3>Additional experience and/or qualifications:</h3><ul><li>HPC experience</li><li>Other IaaS experience</li><li>Development and Coding experience</li><li>CI/CD experience </li><li>OT experience</li><li>Ability to lift up to 50 lbs as needed in deploying on-prem infrastructure</li><li>Ability to type, stand, and sit for extended periods of time</li><li>Occasional travel may be required</li><li>Nights and weekend work may be expected during commissioning of new systems or upgrades</li><li>#LI-Onsite</li></ul> <div>The salary range for this full-time position is $150K-$250K + equity + benefits. The actual salary will depend on level, location, qualifications, and experience. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.</div><div> </div><div>CFS team members thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and have demonstrated exceptional results through a range of different pursuits. We all tightly align with our company values of integrity, execution, impact and self-critique. As we grow, we are looking to add talented people who are mission driven and bring diverse perspectives and new ways of solving problems.</div><div> </div><div>At CFS, we deeply value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer by choice. We consider all qualified applicants equally for employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.</div>

Creating a clean, limitless energy future through commercial fusion power - Commonwealth Fusion Systems leads the way with innovation and expertise.

IT Infrastructure Engineer

KoBold Metals is a mineral exploration company using AI to explore for the metals we need for our transition to a low-carbon economy. KoBold’s business is discovering, defining, expanding, and developing mineral resources, and KoBold’s objective is to achieve a step-change improvement in exploration success: we aim to discover more tier 1 resources, faster, and with fewer failures.KoBold has a global portfolio of more than 50 exploration properties targeting nickel, copper, cobalt, and lithium, which range from 100%-owned to partnerships with both majors, junior explorers, and prospectors.Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, software engineering, operations, and business personnel. Prior to joining KoBold, KoBold team members have made nearly 20 discoveries. Our exploration programs are co-led by our geoscientists and data scientists, who develop exploration hypotheses, rigorously quantify uncertainty in our understanding of the subsurface, and design data collection programs that most effectively reduce uncertainty, drawing upon a large suite of proprietary exploration technology built by our data scientists and software engineers. Our field programs validate and improve the system and have demonstrated material improvements over conventional exploration methodsKoBold is privately held and our investors include: institutional asset managers T. Rowe Rice and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Standard Investments, and Sam Altman’s Apollo Projects; and leading natural resources companies Equinor, Mitsubishi, and BHP.About the position:At KoBold we believe that a modern ML stack will enable systematic mineral exploration and materially improve the success rate. This role is a key ingredient to this strategy. As a member of our software engineering team, you will apply software engineering and machine learning to large remote-sensing datasets in order to build scalable ML systems to help make high-speed, high-quality decisions for our mineral exploration projects. Collaborating with our exceptional team of data scientists and geologists, you will tackle complex scientific problems head-on and collectively pave the way for discoveries of vital energy transition metals like lithium, copper, nickel, and cobalt. Together we can shape the future of mineral exploration and contribute to building a sustainable world.Responsibilities of this role include:<ul><li>Architect, implement, and maintain foundational scientific computing libraries that will be used in Kobold’s mineral exploration analyses.</li><li>In collaboration with other engineers, build ML tooling to increase the velocity of our machine learning progress, including enabling rapid prototyping in Jupyter notebooks; building experimentation, evaluation, and simulation frameworks; turning successful R&amp;D into robust, scalable ML pipelines; and organizing models and their outputs for repeatability and discoverability.</li><li>In collaboration with data scientists, build models to make statistically valid predictions about the locations of compositional anomalies within the Earth’s crust.</li><li>Apply–and coach team members to use–engineering best practices such as writing testable and composable code</li><li>Collaborate with data scientists, geoscientists and engineers to invent the modern scientific computing stack for mineral exploration</li></ul>QualificationsOur ideal candidate will have:<ul><li>At least 5 years of experience as a software engineer, data scientist or ML engineer, though most great candidates will have closer to 10. Recent bachelor’s/master’s candidates are unlikely to be competitive.</li><li>Track record of building production ML solutions or tooling that have delivered business value</li><li>Proficiency with foundational concepts of ML</li><li>Proficiency in Python, ideally including array-based packages such as xarray and numpy</li><li>Proficiency in a variety of parallel computing patterns, for example using distributed computing frameworks such as Dask</li><li>Flexibility to engage with data scientists and increase their productivity for both experimental and production workflows </li><li>An open-mind and curious attitude to learn and embrace the unique challenges of applying machine learning to mineral exploration, such as limited groundtruth data, complex quality metric design, and difficulties to create generalizable models</li><li>Collaborative attitude to work with stakeholders with different backgrounds (data scientists, geoscientists, software engineers, operations)</li></ul>Work practices and motivation:<ul><li>Ability to take ownership and responsibility of large projects.</li><li>Intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn about all aspects of mineral exploration, particularly in the geology domain. Open to working directly with geologists in the field. Enjoys constantly learning such that you are driving insights and innovations.</li><li>Ability to explain technical problems to and collaborate on solutions with domain experts who aren’t software developers. A strong communicator who enjoys working with colleagues across the company.</li><li>Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on a range of responsibilities.</li><li>Keen not just to build cool technology, but to figure out what technical product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company.</li><li>Ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks effectively.</li></ul> KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $190,000-$250,000.Location: Remote, Candidates can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada.<h3> </h3><h3> </h3>

Staff ML Engineer

KoBold Metals is a mineral exploration company using AI to explore for the metals we need for our transition to a low-carbon economy. KoBold’s business is discovering, defining, expanding, and developing mineral resources, and KoBold’s objective is to achieve a step-change improvement in exploration success: we aim to discover more tier 1 resources, faster, and with fewer failures.KoBold has a global portfolio of more than 50 exploration properties targeting nickel, copper, cobalt, and lithium, which range from 100%-owned to partnerships with both majors, junior explorers, and prospectors.Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, software engineering, operations, and business personnel. Prior to joining KoBold, KoBold team members have made nearly 20 discoveries. Our exploration programs are co-led by our geoscientists and data scientists, who develop exploration hypotheses, rigorously quantify uncertainty in our understanding of the subsurface, and design data collection programs that most effectively reduce uncertainty, drawing upon a large suite of proprietary exploration technology built by our data scientists and software engineers. Our field programs validate and improve the system and have demonstrated material improvements over conventional exploration methodsKoBold is privately held and our investors include: institutional asset managers T. Rowe Rice and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Standard Investments, and Sam Altman’s Apollo Projects; and leading natural resources companies Equinor, Mitsubishi, and BHP.About the position:At KoBold we believe that a modern ML stack will enable systematic mineral exploration and materially improve the success rate. This role is a key ingredient to this strategy. As a member of our software engineering team, you will apply software engineering and machine learning to large remote-sensing datasets in order to build scalable ML systems to help make high-speed, high-quality decisions for our mineral exploration projects. Collaborating with our exceptional team of data scientists and geologists, you will tackle complex scientific problems head-on and collectively pave the way for discoveries of vital energy transition metals like lithium, copper, nickel, and cobalt. Together we can shape the future of mineral exploration and contribute to building a sustainable world.Responsibilities of this role include:<ul><li>Architect, implement, and maintain foundational scientific computing libraries for distributed processing of large-scale geospatial rasters, to be used in Kobold’s mineral exploration analyses.</li><li>In collaboration with other engineers, build tooling to increase the velocity of our machine learning progress on geospatial raster data, including enabling rapid prototyping in Jupyter notebooks; build experimentation, evaluation, and simulation frameworks; turning successful R&amp;D into robust, scalable ML pipelines; and organizing models and their outputs for repeatability and discoverability.</li><li>In collaboration with data scientists, build models to make statistically valid predictions about the locations of compositional anomalies within the Earth’s crust.</li><li>Apply–and coach team members to use–engineering best practices such as writing robust, testable and composable code</li><li>Collaborate with data scientists, geoscientists and engineers to invent the modern scientific computing stack for mineral exploration</li></ul>QualificationsOur ideal candidate will have:<ul><li>At least 5 years of experience as a software engineer, data scientist or ML engineer, though most great candidates will have closer to 10. Recent bachelor’s/master’s candidates are unlikely to be competitive.</li><li>Track record of building production quality data processing solutions or tooling that have delivered business value</li><li>Proficiency with foundational concepts of ML, including statistical, traditional and deep-learning approaches</li><li>Proficiency in Python, ideally including array-based packages such as xarray and numpy</li><li>Proficiency in scaling complex data operations across distributed computing resources, using tools such as Spark or Dask</li><li>Drive to increase the velocity and effectiveness of our data scientists in both experimental and production workflows </li><li>Capacity to dive deep on novel challenging problems in applying ML to mineral exploration, including understanding a complex domain of geology and mineral exploration practices as well as working with limited, disparate and noisy data sources </li><li>Collaborative attitude to work with stakeholders with different backgrounds (data scientists, geoscientists, software engineers, operations)</li><li>Experience with multispectral remote-sensing data from a variety of sources</li></ul>Work practices and motivation:<ul><li>Ability to take ownership and responsibility of large projects.</li><li>Intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn about all aspects of mineral exploration, particularly in the geology domain. Open to working directly with geologists in the field. Enjoys constantly learning such that you are driving insights and innovations.</li><li>Ability to explain technical problems to and collaborate on solutions with domain experts who aren’t software developers. A strong communicator who enjoys working with colleagues across the company.</li><li>Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on a range of responsibilities.</li><li>Keen not just to build cool technology, but to figure out what technical product to build to best achieve the business objectives of the company.</li><li>Ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks effectively.</li></ul> KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $190,000-$260,000.Location: Remote, Candidates can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada. <h3> </h3><h3> </h3>

Staff ML Engineer, Remote Sensing

<div><h3>About our Company</h3>Equilibrium Energy is a well-funded, Series B clean energy startup backed by some of the most prominent institutional investors in climate. We are building a digital native power company operating at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Our mission is to accelerate our collective path to climate, energy, and societal equilibriums. Our goal is to become one of the next-generation, digital-native, end-to-end global clean power companies that reshapes the energy industry.New colleagues will share our vision that a next-generation energy company must be built from the ground up on deep industry expertise combined with an unwavering commitment to modern digital approaches. We design our commercial strategies, operational approaches, and product suites so as to best leverage data-driven insights, automated workflows, ML-infused pipelines, and fully automated decision engines. These capabilities are enabled by our progressively modern software stack and engineering best practices, which in turn provide the scalable platform we need to put a serious dent in carbon emissions. We’re looking for collaborative, talented, passionate and resourceful folks to join our team and help us lay the foundation for our important mission and ambitious plan.</div><h3>What we are looking for</h3>Equilibrium was founded with a vision for building a company where innovation, collaboration, optimization, machine learning, and data science power all aspects of our algorithmic decision-making. We are looking for a staff / sr staff research scientist with deep power markets domain expertise to accelerate the design and delivery of the autonomous energy market participation, asset optimization, and valuation products that will drive the future success of our company. As a key member of our sciences group, you will play an active role in a) cultivating our culture of experimentation, insights discovery, and incremental delivery, b) facilitating research into state of the art operations research &amp; optimization techniques, c) helping to identify, recruit, train, and mentor members of our growing team of exceptional scientists, and d) partnering with our engineers, product managers, computational scientists, analysts, and commercial team to influence the near to medium term product roadmap.<h3>What you will do</h3>Use research insights to shape product direction: Influence product and engineering roadmaps through presentation of research insights, experimental results, and model performance metrics, in order to evolve organizational direction. Initiate and lead cross-functional engagements to surface, prioritize, formulate, and structure complex and ambiguous challenges where advanced novel scientific research can have outsized company impact.Optimization algorithms formulation &amp; research: Tackle complex scientific &amp; operations research problems by researching published academic literature, surveying industry techniques &amp; intuition, and executing hands-on experimental testing &amp; modeling. Solve ambiguous energy domain-specific optimal bidding &amp; risk management problems through novel and innovative quantitative solutions and architectures. Lead medium to long term research projects that advance the state-of-the-art in energy asset management and financial trading performance.Energy market analytics: Develop models and tools to analyze the behavior of electricity markets, including power prices, ancillary services dispatch, grid network models, transmission outages &amp; constraints, and optimal power flows. <h3>The minimum qualifications you’ll need</h3><ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Passion for clean energy and fighting climate change</li><li style="font-weight:400;">An advanced degree in computer science, operations research, electrical engineering, power systems, or related quantitative discipline</li><li style="font-weight:400;">4+ years experience in the electricity &amp; energy domain (e.g. power systems modeling, power flow, security constrained unit commitment, economic dispatch etc)</li><li style="font-weight:400;">3+ years experience with python and/or julia, and the supporting science tool suite (e.g. numpy, scipy, pandas, JuMP, etc)</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience with optimization techniques (e.g. stochastic optimization, robust optimization)</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience with optimization modeling packages and solvers</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience communicating mathematical concepts, analytical results, and data-driven insights to both technical and non-technical audiences</li><li style="font-weight:400;">A collaboration-first mentality, with a willingness to teach as well as learn from others</li></ul><h3>Nice to have additional skills</h3><ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Demonstrated experience with developing and releasing operational optimization models in the electricity and energy domain</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience with various US energy markets, including PJM, ERCOT, SPP, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, and CAISO</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience with forecasting &amp; time series problems</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience with database technologies and sql</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience with data visualization and dashboarding technologies (e.g. plot.ly Dash, Streamlit)</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience leading and mentoring a team of scientists</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Demonstrated track record of academic paper or social media publication</li></ul><div><h3>Not sure this is the right role for you?</h3>We are a high growth company with accelerating hiring needs so there’s a great chance we’ll be able to create a custom role for you, now or in the future. All roles, titles and compensation packages are tailored to the applicant, so apply anyways and tell us in your cover letter about your dream role. <h3>What we offer</h3>Equilibrium is composed of deeply knowledgeable industry experts across all our functions, with decades of experience in energy-specific commercial structuring, power systems engineering, machine learning, computational research, operations research, distributed and compute-intensive infrastructure, and modern software &amp; ML engineering. Our experience in the space means we’ve previously built versions of nearly every technical component of our platform. We are now designing them better, and combining them in a holistic and novel way, to achieve global scale and climate impact. We pride ourselves on our deeply empathetic &amp; collaborative culture, honest and direct but respectful communication, and our balanced, flexible, and remote-first work environment. Employee benefits include: <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Competitive base salary and a comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k package</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Opportunity to own a significant piece of the company via a meaningful equity grant</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Unlimited vacation and flexible work schedule</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the United States, Canada &amp; Europe, or join one of our regional hubs in Boston, SF Bay Area, or London</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Accelerated professional growth and development opportunities through direct collaboration and mentorship from leading industry expert colleagues across energy and tech</li></ul>Equilibrium Energy is a diverse and inclusive, equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.</div>

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Research Scientist (Staff / Sr Staff) - Power Markets 

<h2 style="margin:24px 0px 8px;font-size:20px;font-weight:600;">Position overview</h2>Lydian is looking for an R&amp;D Engineer to guide and execute the experimental strategy for our lab-scale reactor systems. You will dive into chemical kinetics and reactor fundamentals and design experiments to gain a deep understanding of the performance of our catalysts and high temperature materials. You will interface with R&amp;D leadership to develop a testing strategy and communicate experimental results to the broader engineering team.<div> </div>We are looking for someone who can build a project plan and execute against it, who loves working in lab to get things done rigorously, safely, and with a sense of urgency. You will help identify and address key technical risks as we scale up from lab to pilot. Over time, we hope you’ll grow into owning and managing our entire lab-scale reactor program, including development, integration, and testing of those systems. <h2 style="margin:24px 0px 8px;font-size:20px;font-weight:600;">Responsibilities</h2><ul><li style="font-size:18px;">Lead experimental test plan development and execution to investigate novel materials on our lab-scale reactors</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Design and execute test protocols for reactor cells and systems to validate designs</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Analyze, document, and present experimental data and results. Use past results to drive future experimental direction, and communicate plans to the team</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Develop a deep understanding of our reactor architecture, sub-component design, and testing platforms (software and process design)</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Troubleshoot and resolve software, electronic, fluid handling, and mechanical equipment issues on test equipment</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for key assembly processes and test platforms</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Train and mentor other engineers and co-ops</li></ul><h2 style="margin:24px 0px 8px;font-size:20px;font-weight:600;">Qualifications</h2><ul><li style="font-size:18px;">B.S. or M.S. in Chemical Engineering or similar</li><li style="font-size:18px;">1-3+ years of experience in a lab setting, designing experiments to answer specific scientific questions. Heterogenous catalysis experience is highly desired</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Strong attention to detail, with prior hands-on experience in assembly and testing of laboratory systems such as reactors, electrolyzers, or other process equipment</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Ability to apply engineering principles, including thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, and heat and mass transport, to analyze experimental data and solve problems</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Mechanical assembly experience or comfort with lab-scale mechanical systems </li><li style="font-size:18px;">Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, is energized by challenges, and relishes in getting the job done</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Prior startup experience is a plus</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Alignment with our <a href="https://www.notion.so/lydian-labs/Lydian-Mission-Vision-and-Virtues-e012ec6f6c654b50961ed82ad9c9e122?pvs=4" style="text-decoration:none;"> https://www.notion.so/lydian-labs/lydian-mission-vision-and-virtues-e012ec6f6c654b50961ed82ad9c9e122?pvs=4 </a><a href="https://www.notion.so/lydian-labs/Lydian-Mission-Vision-and-Virtues-e012ec6f6c654b50961ed82ad9c9e122?pvs=4" style="text-decoration:none;">mission, vision, and virtues</a></li></ul><div> </div>Company culture and benefits <ul><li style="font-size:18px;">Challenging, collaborative, and meaningful work and an important voice in company development</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Competitive salary and title commensurate with experience</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Meaningful equity compensation</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Flexible PTO and expectation that all employees take significant time off to rest, recharge, and enjoy life outside work</li><li style="font-size:18px;">Excellent health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered</li><li style="font-size:18px;">401(k) with company match</li></ul>

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Posting TitleResearcher III - Development of Transient Spectroscopic Probes of Photochemical Processes.LocationCO - Golden.Position TypeRegular.Hours Per Week40.Working at NRELThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our ten employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.NREL supports inclusive, diverse, and unbiased hiring practices that promote creativity and innovation. By collaborating with organizations that focus on diverse talent pools, reaching out to underrepresented demographics, and providing an inclusive application and interview process, our Talent Acquisition team aims to hear all voices equally. We strive to attract a highly diverse workforce and create a culture where every employee feels welcomed and respected and they can be their authentic selves.Our planet needs us! Learn about NREL’s critical objectives, and see how NREL is focused on saving the planet.Note: Research suggests that potential job seekers may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage anyone who is interested in this opportunity to apply. We seek dedicated people who believe they have the skills and ambition to succeed at NREL to apply for this role.Job DescriptionA Researcher III position is available in NREL’s Materials, Chemical, and Computational Science (MCCS) directorate to develop and apply transient spectroscopic techniques to probe photochemical and photoelectrical conversion processes over a wide breadth of time scales in molecular/polymeric organic and hybrid organic-inorganic systems.The successful candidate will join several multi-disciplinary teams investigating novel excited-state photophysical and photochemical processes in chemical systems that include organic semiconductors (including metal-organic coordination complexes, polyaromatic organic chromophores, and conjugated polymers); inorganic semiconductors; and hybrid organic-inorganic architectures. The successful candidate should have experience in a variety of experimental techniques which may include, but is not limited to: Ultrafast transient spectroscopic techniques; Transient Spectroelectrochemical techniques; Steady-state and transient photoluminescence spectroscopy.Primary duties will involve:<ol><li>Design, construction, and use of instrumentation for transient spectroscopic studies of photo-excited state dynamics, including the use of pulsed femtosecond laser systems and the development of transient spectroelectrochemical measurements.</li><li>Spectroscopic data analysis, fitting, and kinetic modelling.</li><li>Dissemination of research to project sponsors and the wider technical community, via oral presentations and journal articles.</li><li>Participation in the proposal development process, including identification of scientific/technical challenges and crafting research approaches to address them.</li><li>Training and mentoring junior researchers, both in technical and safety aspects related to laser spectroscopy measurements.</li><li>A strong focus on the maintenance, stewardship, and safety management related to the core laser systems and laboratories devoted to these experimental efforts.</li></ol>MCCS Directorate.Basic QualificationsRelevant PhD . Or, relevant Master's Degree and 3 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Bachelor's Degree and 5 or more years of experience . Demonstrates complete understanding and wide application of scientific technical procedures, principles, theories and concepts in the field. General knowledge of other related disciplines. Demonstrates leadership in one or more areas of team, task or project lead responsibilities. Demonstrated experience in management of projects. Very good technical writing, interpersonal and communication skills.* Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.Additional Required QualificationsCandidates should be able to demonstrate:<ul><li>A complete understanding and wide application of scientific technical procedures, principles, theories and concepts in the Development of Transient Spectroscopic Probes of Photochemical Processes.</li><li>Experience with maintenance and use of pulsed femtosecond laser systems, including technique development.</li><li>The ability to work and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team, including both internal and external partners, that includes synthetic chemists, computational scientists, and other experimentalists is required.</li><li>The ability to drive their research projects forward with limited supervision.</li><li>A commitment to, and potential for, the development of new research directions.Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated strong publication record, including ability to drive preparation of publications.</li><li>A proven dedication to mentoring, training, and professional development of junior researchers.</li><li>Experience in spectroscopic data analysis, fitting, and kinetic modelling is essential.</li><li>Commitment to lab safety and protocols.</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications.Job Application Submission WindowThe anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)Job Profile: Researcher III / Annual Salary Range: $79,600 - $143,300NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.Benefits SummaryBenefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short- and long-term disability insurance; pension benefits; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&amp;D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; paid holidays; and tuition reimbursement. NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.* Based on eligibility rulesDrug Free WorkplaceNREL is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act and complies with federal laws prohibiting the possession and use of illegal drugs. Under federal law, marijuana remains an illegal drug.If you are offered employment at NREL, you must pass a pre-employment drug test prior to commencing employment. Unless prohibited by state or local law, the pre-employment drug test will include marijuana. If you test positive on the pre-employment drug test, your offer of employment may be withdrawn.Submission GuidelinesPlease note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at NREL you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. 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Researcher III - Development of Transient Spectroscopic Probes of Photochemical Processes

Posting TitleSenior Researcher - 5G and Advanced Telecommunications.LocationCO - Golden.Position TypeRegular.Hours Per Week40.Working at NRELThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our ten employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.NREL supports inclusive, diverse, and unbiased hiring practices that promote creativity and innovation. By collaborating with organizations that focus on diverse talent pools, reaching out to underrepresented demographics, and providing an inclusive application and interview process, our Talent Acquisition team aims to hear all voices equally. We strive to attract a highly diverse workforce and create a culture where every employee feels welcomed and respected and they can be their authentic selves.Our planet needs us! Learn about NREL’s critical objectives, and see how NREL is focused on saving the planet.Note: Research suggests that potential job seekers may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage anyone who is interested in this opportunity to apply. We seek dedicated people who believe they have the skills and ambition to succeed at NREL to apply for this role.Job DescriptionNREL's Cybersecurity Research Center is performing research to secure our energy systems from cyberattack, and to make them more resilient to disruptions of any type. Using an on-premises private cloud interconnected with unique and powerful laboratory systems, NREL’s cyber range powers our investigation of rapidly evolving communication systems, industrial control systems, internet of things (IoT), and the flow of energy on which we all depend. Our research significantly enhances energy security, resilience, efficiency, and affordability across the United States and the world.On this team, software engineers work closely with network engineers and architects, mathematicians, and security professionals. Every project involves collaboration across NREL’s domains of expertise – from renewable generation via wind, solar, and geothermal; to efficient energy consumption in smart buildings, electric vehicles, and industry; to the power systems, energy storage, data and control algorithms needed to ensure the whole system operates reliably.The successful applicant will provide technical and strategic leadership on emerging efforts in 5G telecommunications. These research projects focus on securing distributed clean energy systems, including advanced application of 5G to energy system operations, as well as telecommunications beyond 5G. The role will help develop a vision and growth strategy for a priority research domain that is rapidly growing. The successful candidate will bring technical expertise in cellular communications, network core and radio access technologies. The candidate will collaborate with power systems and cybersecurity researchers to develop and use a robust testbed for telecommunications and cybersecurity research opportunities. Additionally, the candidate will help to further develop NREL’s 5G and beyond research portfolio through proposal writing and partnership development. The researcher will interface directly with DOE, utility, industry, and other federal sponsors; help to set program targets; and provide technical leadership to researchers at NREL.Responsibilities include:<ul><li>Lead the growth of 5G+ focused research within the Cybersecurity Research Center</li><li>Provide strong technical leadership to existing and future research projects focused on the intersection of 5G+ and distributed energy systems.</li><li>Support the deployment and operation of a 5G communications testbed and the integration with existing cybersecurity and energy systems research capabilities</li><li>Collaborate with power systems, resilience and cybersecurity researchers on proposals and joint research projects</li><li>Collaborate with sponsors, partners, and other national labs</li><li>Develop new research proposals and programs related to cybersecurity</li></ul>.Basic QualificationsThis role can be hired at a Level IV or Level V.Level V:Relevant PhD and 9 or more years of experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 12 or more years of experience. Or, relevant Bachelor's Degree and 14 or more years of experience.Level IV:Relevant PhD and 4 or more years of experience. Or, relevant Master's Degree and 7 or more years of experience. Or, relevant Bachelor's Degree and 9 or more years of experience.* Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.Additional Required QualificationsResearcher V:<ul><li>Applies advanced scientific technical principles, theories and concepts</li><li>Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts</li><li>Considered a national subject matter expert</li><li>Demonstrates leadership in a number of areas, including all team, task and/or project lead responsibilities</li><li>Demonstrated management of complex and/or impactful projects</li><li>Excellent technical writing, interpersonal and communication skills</li></ul>​Researcher IV:<ul><li>Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of laws, regulations, principles, procedures and practices related to specific field</li><li>Excellent leadership, communication, problem solving and project management skills</li><li>Ability to use various computer software programs</li></ul>RIV and RV level:<ul><li>Deep technical expertise in 5G core and radio access technologies</li><li>Experience architecting and deploying a 5G network for research</li><li>Experience with existing opensource technology stacks such as OpenAirInterface and Open5GCore</li><li>Familiarity with security architectures and considerations for 5G networks as well as network slicing, MORAN and MOCN</li><li>Familiarity with Open RAN</li><li>Strong understanding of relevant 3GPP standards</li><li>Demonstrated experience in successfully leading diverse teams</li><li>Strong writing and public speaking skills demonstrated through proposals, presentations, business development and/or customer engagement</li><li>Demonstrated experience working safely in laboratory or field with hardware or communications systems, including troubleshooting.</li><li>Must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE security clearance at the Q/TS/SCI level. A polygraph may be required. Eligibility requirements: To obtain a clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; U.S. citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances. See DOE O 472.2A for a dditional information.</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications<ul><li>Experience with cybersecurity tools, techniques, and practice in telecommunications and/or industrial control systems</li><li>Existing security clearance</li></ul>.Job Application Submission WindowThe anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)Job Profile: Researcher V / Annual Salary Range: $114,500 - $206,100Job Profile: Researcher IV / Annual Salary Range: $95,500 - $171,900NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.Benefits SummaryBenefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short- and long-term disability insurance; pension benefits; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&amp;D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; paid holidays; and tuition reimbursement. NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.* Based on eligibility rulesDrug Free WorkplaceNREL is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act and complies with federal laws prohibiting the possession and use of illegal drugs. Under federal law, marijuana remains an illegal drug.If you are offered employment at NREL, you must pass a pre-employment drug test prior to commencing employment. Unless prohibited by state or local law, the pre-employment drug test will include marijuana. If you test positive on the pre-employment drug test, your offer of employment may be withdrawn.Submission GuidelinesPlease note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at NREL you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application..EEO PolicyNREL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic partner status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.EEO is the Law (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm) | Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination (https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_English_unformattedESQA508c.pdf) | Reasonable Accommodations (http://www.nrel.gov/careers/employment-policies.html)E -Verify www.dhs.gov/E-Verify For information about right to work, click here (http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2013/08/13/FinalOSCPosterEN08_01_2013.pdf) for English or here (http://www.justice.gov/crt/file/813271/download) for Spanish.E-Verify is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This business uses E-Verify in its hiring practices to achieve a lawful workforce.

Senior Researcher - 5G and Advanced Telecommunications

Posting TitleSenior Researcher - Power System Cybersecurity.LocationCO - Golden.Position TypeRegular.Hours Per Week40.Working at NRELThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our ten employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.NREL supports inclusive, diverse, and unbiased hiring practices that promote creativity and innovation. By collaborating with organizations that focus on diverse talent pools, reaching out to underrepresented demographics, and providing an inclusive application and interview process, our Talent Acquisition team aims to hear all voices equally. We strive to attract a highly diverse workforce and create a culture where every employee feels welcomed and respected and they can be their authentic selves.Our planet needs us! Learn about NREL’s critical objectives, and see how NREL is focused on saving the planet.Note: Research suggests that potential job seekers may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage anyone who is interested in this opportunity to apply. We seek dedicated people who believe they have the skills and ambition to succeed at NREL to apply for this role.Job DescriptionNREL's Energy Cybersecurity Research Center is performing research to secure our energy systems from cyberattack, and to make them more resilient to disruptions of any type. Using an on-premises private cloud interconnected with unique and powerful laboratory systems, NREL’s cyber range powers our investigation of rapidly evolving communication systems, industrial control systems, internet of things (IoT), and the flow of energy on which we all depend. Our research significantly enhances energy security, resilience, efficiency, and affordability across the United States and the world.On our team, software engineers work closely with network engineers and architects, mathematicians, and security professionals. Every project involves collaboration across NREL’s domains of expertise – from renewable generation via wind, solar, and geothermal; to efficient energy consumption in smart buildings, electric vehicles, and industry; to the power systems, energy storage, data and control algorithms needed to ensure the whole system operates reliably.The successful applicant will provide technical and strategic leadership on challenging research projects. This role will require a meaningful degree of experience with cybersecurity tools and programs, as well as an understanding of utilities' systems and operating context. The researcher will interface directly with DOE, utility, industry, and other federal sponsors; help to set program targets; and provide technical leadership to researchers at NREL..Basic QualificationsThis role can be hired at a Level IV or Level VLevel V:Relevant PhD and 9 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Master's Degree and 12 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Bachelor's Degree and 14 or more years of experience.Level IV:Relevant PhD and 4 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Master's Degree and 7 or more years of experience . Or, relevant Bachelor's Degree and 9 or more years of experience.* Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.Additional Required QualificationsResearcher V:<ul><li>Applies advanced scientific technical principles, theories and concepts.</li><li>Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts.</li><li>Considered a national subject matter expert.</li><li>Demonstrates leadership in a number of areas, including all team, task and/or project lead responsibilities.</li><li>Demonstrated management of complex and/or impactful projects.</li><li>Excellent technical writing, interpersonal and communication skills.</li><li>Demonstrated experience with cybersecurity tools, programs, and practices.</li><li>Demonstrated experience working with multiple diverse stakeholders to achieve consensus</li><li>Experience developing technical reports and delivering presentations, such as via a significant publication record.</li><li>Demonstrated experience in successfully leading diverse teams.</li><li>Must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE security clearance at the Q/TS/SCI level. A polygraph may be required. Eligibility requirements: To obtain a clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; U.S. citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances. See DOE O 472.2A for a dditional information.</li></ul>Researcher IV:<ul><li>Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of laws, regulations, principles, procedures and practices related to specific field.</li><li>Excellent leadership, communication, problem solving and project management skills.</li><li>Ability to use various computer software programs.</li><li>Demonstrated experience with cybersecurity tools, programs, and practices.</li><li>Demonstrated experience working with multiple diverse stakeholders to achieve consensus</li><li>Experience developing technical reports and delivering presentations, such as via a significant publication record.</li><li>Demonstrated experience in successfully leading diverse teams</li><li>Must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE security clearance at the Q/TS/SCI level. A polygraph may be required. Eligibility requirements: To obtain a clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; U.S. citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances. See DOE O 472.2A for a dditional information.</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications<ul><li>Demonstrated experience with operational technology cybersecurity in an industrial control system, preferably with an electric utility in the United States</li><li>Demonstrated experience working safely in laboratory or field with hardware or communications systems, including troubleshooting</li><li>Knowledge of distributed energy resources</li><li>Demonstrated experience in cyber threat hunting, work in SOC, incident response, or vulnerability assessment is a major plus</li><li>Demonstrated experience in electric utility cybersecurity operations or leadership is a plus</li><li>Demonstrated experience in military or intelligence community cybersecurity teams is a major plus</li><li>Existing security clearance</li></ul>.Job Application Submission WindowThe anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)Job Profile: Researcher V / Annual Salary Range: $114,500 - $206,100Job Profile: Researcher IV / Annual Salary Range: $95,500 - $171,900NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. 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Senior Researcher - Power System Cybersecurity

<div>Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has the fastest, lowest cost path to commercial fusion energy.</div><div> </div><div>CFS collaborates with MIT to leverage decades of research combined with groundbreaking new high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology. HTS magnets will enable compact fusion power plants that can be constructed faster and at lower cost. Our mission is to deploy these power plants to meet global decarbonization goals as fast as possible. To that end, CFS has assembled a team of leaders in tough tech, fusion science, and manufacturing with a track record of rapid execution. Supported by the world’s leading investors, CFS is uniquely positioned to deliver limitless, clean, fusion power to combat climate change. To implement this plan, we are looking to add dedicated people to the team who treat people well, improve our work by adding multifaceted perspectives and new ways of solving problems, have achieved outstanding results through a range of pursuits, and have skills and experience related to this role.</div><div> </div><div>ARC will be the first machine to produce electricity from fusion energy, serving as the cornerstone to a new industry.  ARC will strongly leverage the work that’s been done for SPARC in developing HTS magnets and other key tokamak systems. However, because of its mission to deliver power to the grid, the ARC tokamak has several systems not included on SPARC. The ARC group within R&amp;D is a growing team that is delivering key scientific and engineering results to push the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of these new enabling technologies higher.</div><div> </div><div>ARC will use a fluoride-based molten salt as the blanket working fluid. This senior R+D engineer will perform pump design and analysis work, fabricate and operate pump test stands, and gather and interpret data. They will also perform a trade-space analysis of possible pump technologies for high temperature, corrosive application to meet requirements,.  As the project and team grows, this engineer will be expected to work collaboratively towards the development of various component test flow loops and engage deeply with industry partners towards manufacturing pumps for ARC. </div> <h3>This team member will:</h3><ul><li>Plan and execute molten salt pump development campaign</li><li>Design and test prototype pumps to evaluate architectures, head rise, sealing packages, efficiency, lifetime performance, salt compatibility, maintenance requirements, etc</li><li>Interpret and consolidate experimental test data</li><li>Ensure rapid execution of design-build-test-learn cycles and retirement of technical risks</li><li>Help identify external partners and vendors to support and accelerate pump development</li><li>Work collaboratively across an interdisciplinary team in the integration of prototype pump technology into flow loops of various scales</li><li>Communicate results to a broad technical audience in written and oral formats.</li></ul><h3>The ideal candidate will have most, if not all, of these requirements:</h3><ul><li>Minimum 5 year post-baccalaureate experience with pump technology</li><li>Deep knowledge of pump technologies and design trade-offs including hydrodynamics of pumps, pump sizing and conceptual design, rotordynamics, bearing and seal selection, and interpreting data from pump tests</li><li>Experience with pumps from design and development through into manufacturing</li><li>Experience designing pump test stands, testing and validating pump performance</li><li>Hands-on engineering experience with fluid systems and rotating machines</li><li>Great communication and organizational skills</li><li>Strong time management skills</li><li>Self - motivation and autonomy</li><li>Dedication to safety to mitigate hazards that may include molten salt chemical hazards, high temperature, and strong magnetic fields</li></ul><h3>Additional experience and/or qualifications:</h3><ul><li>Graduate degree in an engineering or applied science discipline</li><li>A demonstrated history of participation in or leading the delivery of bespoke hardware systems</li><li>Experience with pumps in extreme environments (e.g. high temperature, extreme chemical requirements, nuclear environment, etc)</li><li>Experience managing technical team of engineers and technicians</li><li>Knowledge of resource estimation and projection</li><li>Perform activities such as standing, and sitting for extended periods of time</li><li>Dedication to safety to mitigate industrial hazards that may include heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead (Pb), high voltage, cryogenics and molten salt</li><li>Willingness to occasionally travel 10% or work required nights/weekends/on-call</li><li>#LI-Onsite</li></ul> <div>CFS team members thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and have demonstrated exceptional results through a range of different pursuits. We all tightly align with our company values of integrity, execution, impact and self-critique. As we grow, we are looking to add talented people who are mission driven and bring diverse perspectives and new ways of solving problems.</div><div> </div><div>At CFS, we deeply value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer by choice. We consider all qualified applicants equally for employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.</div>

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