About the LANL Graduate Student Program

Selection Procedures

Thank you for your interest in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Student Programs. The following is a brief summary of our hiring process.

Once an application is submitted to the Student Programs Office, it is placed on the On-Line Applicant Listing and made available for all interested LANL hiring officials to view. Hiring officials are LANL employees who have the funding and work available to hire a student.

Hiring officials have the capability to do a search for qualified applicants using different search criteria (i.e., major, university, area of interest, skills, etc.). Once hiring officials have narrowed their search, they may contact the student directly to conduct a phone interview.

When a selection has been made, the hiring official will submit a hiring package to the HR Service Center. The package is reviewed and an official offer letter is processed and mailed/faxed to the student. Students review and accept the offer, and return the signed offer letter to the HR Service Center within two weeks of recieving the letter. Once the offer letter is returned to the HR Service Center, a start date is confimred and the student is scheduled for the new hire orientation. Please note: Students should not report to their worksite until they have gone through the hiring and orientation process.