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Career Paths
The NRC has both entry-level positions and positions for employees with
experience in the workforce in their field. On this page:
The NRC's online job application system, NRCareers, has been integrated
with USAJOBS. You can search
for current job openings 
in USAJOBS. If you would like more information, see NRCareers--Your
gateway to career opportunities or How
to Apply.
Special Entry Level Programs
- Nuclear
Safety Professional Development Program
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- We hire recent graduates with bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degrees
and strong academic records in health physics, earth sciences, or engineering
to participate in on-the-job training, formal classroom training, and
rotational assignments. If you would like to contact us about the Professional
Development Programs, see Contact
Us About Employment and select "Professional Development Programs"
from the dropdown list.
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- Honor
Law Graduate Program
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- We hire graduating law students or judicial law clerks with strong
academic records; excellent writing, research, and advocacy skills;
and an interest in the interplay of law, science, energy policy, environmental
concerns, and public policy. To find out how to qualify for this program,
see our Honor Law Graduate
Program page. If you would like to contact us about the Honor Law
Graduate Program, see Contact
Us About Employment and select "Honor Law" from the dropdown
list. See also, the Honor
Law Graduate Program brochure.
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- Judicial
Law Clerk Program
We hire graduating third-year law students, graduate law students,
and current judicial law clerks with strong academic records, excellent
analytic and writing skills, and an interest in administrative and
environmental/energy law, to serve as judicial law clerks. To find
out if you qualify for this program, and how to apply, see our Judicial
Law Clerk Program page. If you would like to contact us about
the Judicial Law Clerk Program, see Contact
Us About Employment and select "Judicial Law Clerk Program"
from the dropdown list.
Entry- and Mid-Level Career Positions
Career positions include positions for people at entry and middle levels
with background in engineering, scientific, legal, investigative, computer,
and administrative fields. You can search
for current job openings
in USAJOBS. If you would like to contact us about Career Positions, see
Contact Us About
Employment and select "Career Positions" from the drop down
list.
- Accounting and Budget
- We hire budget analysts, auditors, accountants with bachelor's and
master's degrees.
- Administrative
- We hire management analysts, program analysts, human resources specialists,
and contract specialists with bachelor's and master's degrees, and secretaries
and office automation assistants.
- Attorneys
- We hire attorneys with expertise in such diverse areas as environmental
law, rulemaking, administrative law, and legislation development. Entry
level attorneys are hired through the Honor Law
Graduate Program.
- Engineers
- We hire general, nuclear, mechanical, chemical, structural, electrical,
environmental, materials, software, and human factors engineers with
bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degrees.
- Information Technology/Management
- We hire communications specialists, computer specialists, IT project
managers, systems administrators, computer systems analysts, webmasters,
and information management specialists with bachelor's or master's degrees.
- Investigators
- The Office of the Inspector General and the Office of Investigations
hire investigators, analysts, and law enforcement specialists.
- Scientists
- We hire chemists, nuclear physicists, radiation biologists, physical
scientists, materials scientists, health physicists, geologists, hydrologists,
and seismologists with bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degrees.
- Security and Safeguards Analysts
- We hire security and safeguards analysts with physical, personnel,
information, and operational security knowledge as well as individuals
with experience in the physical protection, surveillance, control, and
accounting of nuclear material.
Senior Executive Service/Senior Level Staff (SES/SLS) Positions
We hire Senior Executives, Senior Level Staff, and Administrative Judges
(legal and technical).
You can contact
us about SES/SLS Positions.
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SES Candidate Development Program
- NRC periodically offers an
SES Candidate Development Program that prepares individuals who have
demonstrated exceptional managerial potential for leadership positions
at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Participants in the program
will engage in developmental assignments and formal training activities
to enhance their executive competencies and to increase their awareness
of public policy, programs, and issues. The program seeks to promote
the development of a Government-wide corporate SES culture through exposure
to ideas and concepts across Government and to promote diversity in
the SES by preparing a demographically diverse pool of qualified applicants
for leadership positions.
Candidates who successfully complete the program and receive certification
of their executive qualifications by an Office of Personnel Management
Qualifications Review Board under the criterion of 5 U.S.C. 3393(c)(2)(B)
will be eligible for non-competitive appointment to the SES. Participation
in the program does not guarantee placement in an SES position.
For more information about the SES, see the Guide
to the Senior Executive Service 
and the Guide to SES
Qualifications Handbook
published by the Federal Office of Personnel Management.
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