Current ORNL Openings for Postdocs and Other Postgraduates 

All positions are available through the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Postdoctoral Research Associates Program and/or the Postmaster’s Research Participation Program. To apply for one of the openings listed, click on the Application link below.

Applicants to any of the positions listed below should follow directions for completing an online application.

Background checks will be required for all participants.

Note: The full project descriptions are linked below as PDF files. To view the files, you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded free from the Adobe support site.

Posting Number Position Level ORNL Division
ORNL09-73-NSSD Post-Master’s or Post-Bachelor’s Neutron Scattering Instrument Associate Post-Master's Neutron Scattering Science
FIRST-03-ORNL Postdoctoral Research Associate Position: Synthesis and Characterization of Functional Porous Materials Postdoc Chemical Sciences
FIRST-02-ORNL Postdoctoral Research Associate Position: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopist Postdoc Chemical Sciences
FIRST-01-ORNL Postdoctoral Research Associate Position: Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Studies Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL09-114-CNMS Postdoctoral Research Associate in Polymeric Materials Postdoc Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL09-113-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Tribology Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-112-ETSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Power Semiconductor Device Research Postdoc Energy and Transportation Science Division
ORNL09-111-BSD Post-Master's Research Associate for Nanoscale Science and Devices Group Post-Master's Biosciences
ORNL09-109-CSMD Post-Master’s or Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Postdoc or Post-Master's Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL09-108-FED Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Plasma Physics Postdoc Fusion Energy
ORNL09-107-ESD Post Master’s Research Associate in Health Physics Post-Master's Environmental Sciences
ORNL09-106-ESD Post Master's Research Associate in Plant Molecular Biology/Bioinformatics Post-Master's Environmental Sciences
ORNL09-105-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Solid State NMR Spectroscopy Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL09-104-ETSD Post Master’s Research Associate in Energy Tool Development Post-Master's Energy and Transportation Science
ORNL09-103-ESD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plant Molecular Genetics Postdoc Environmental Sciences
ORNL09-102-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in High-Temperature Corrosion Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-101-ETSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Energy Modeling and Analysis Postdoc Energy and Transportation Science
ORNL09-100-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biophysics on 3D STEM Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-99-NFDD Mechanical Engineering/Experimentalist - Post-Master’s Post-Master's Neutron Facility Development
ORNL09-98-NSSD Neutron Scattering Instrument Scientist Postdoc Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL09-97-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Powder Diffraction Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-96-BSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Protein Dynamics Postdoc Biosciences
ORNL09-95-BSD Postdoctoral or Post Master’s Research Associate in Computational Molecular Biophysics Postdoc or Post-Master's Biosciences
ORNL09-94-NSSD Scientific Computing Researcher Postdoc Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL09-93-NSSD Scientific Computing Associate Post-Master's Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL09-92-NFDD Postdoctoral Research Associate for Developing the Spin-Echo Grazing Incidence Scattering (SERGIS) Postdoc

Neutron Facility Development

ORNL09-91-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Materials Science for Electrical Energy Storage Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL09-90-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Polymer Physics Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL09-89-NFDD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Instrument Development Postdoc Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL09-88-NSSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Neutron Scattering Studies of Fluids & Polymers Under Confinement Postdoc Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL09-87-CSD Postdoctoral Position in Ultra High Mass Spectrometer Instrumentation Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL09-85-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Simulations for Separations Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL09-84-NSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nanomaterials Research Postdoc Nuclear Science and Technology
ORNL09-83-ESD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Carbon Cycle Science Postdoc Environmental Sciences Division
ORNL09-82-NSSD Postdoctoral Research Associate for Neutron Diffraction on HB-3A Four-Circle Diffractometer Instrument Postdoc Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL09-81-RAD Post-Master’s Research Associate in Control System IOC Applications Post-Master's Research Accelerator
ORNL09-80-BSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Data Integration Postdoc Biosciences
ORNL09-79-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Development of Materials for Solid State Conversion of Thermal Energy to Electrical Power Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-77-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy and Nanoscale Imaging Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL09-76-NRPD Post-Master’s or Postdoctoral Research Associate in Health Physics/External Dosimetry Post-Master's or Post-Bachelor's Nuclear and Radiological Protection
ORNL09-75-NSSD Post-Master’s or Post-Bachelor’s Science Software Developer Post-Master's or Postdoc Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL09-74-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Theory of Thermoelectric Materials Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-72-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nuclear Fuel Development and Characterization Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-71-CSED Postdoctoral Research Associate in Problem Solving Environments Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL09-70-CSED Post Master’s or Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioenergy Supply Chain Analysis Postdoc or Post-Master's Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL09-69-NSTD Post Master’s or Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nuclear Engineering Postdoc or Post-Master's Nuclear Science and Technology
ORNL09-68-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Carbon Fiber Precursor Research and Development Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-67-MSTD Postdoctoral or Post Master’s Research Associate in Air Filtration Postdoc or Post-Master's Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-66-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Synthesis of Catalysts Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL09-65-CSED Post Master’s or Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geospatial Data and Information Sciences [#4] Postdoc or Post-Master's Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL09-64-CSED Post Master’s or Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geospatial Data and Information Sciences [#3] Postdoc or Post-Master's Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL09-63-CSED Post Master’s or Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geospatial Data and Information Sciences [#2] Postdoc or Post-Master's Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL09-62-CSED Post Master’s or Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geospatial Data and Information Sciences Postdoc or Post-Master's Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL09-61-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Development of Low Cost Carbon Fiber from Lignin Precursor Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-59-GNSTD Post Master’s Research Associate in International Safeguards Post-Master's Global Nuclear Security Technology
ORNL09-58-NSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Radiation Transportation and Criticality Postdoc Nuclear Science and Technology
ORNL09-55-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Magnetic Processing of Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Materials Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-54-ESD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Geochemistry Postdoc Environmental Sciences
ORNL09-53-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate for Process Analysis for Energy Storage Materials Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-52-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate for Process Analysis Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-51-GNSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nuclear Material Detection and Characterization (#2) Postdoc Global Nuclear Security Technology
ORNL09-49-GNSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nuclear Material Detection and Characterization Postdoc Global Nuclear Security Technology
ORNL09-48-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Mathematics Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL09-47-NSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Preparation of Pedigreed Uranium Compounds Postdoc Nuclear Science and Technology
ORNL09-46-NCCS Post-Master’s Research Associate - I/O Systems Analyst Post-Master's Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL09-45-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Surface Chemistry of Oxide Surfaces by RAIRS Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL09-44-CNMS Postdoctoral Research Associate in Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocrystals Postdoc Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL09-43-ITER Post Master’s Research Associate in Software Integration Post-Master's US ITER Project
ORNL09-42-NSTD Post Master’s Research Associate in Graphical User Interface and Web Development Post-Master's Nuclear Science and Technology
ORNL09-41-PHY Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Atomic Physics Postdoc Physics
ORNL09-40-BESD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Systems Genetics of Low Dose Radiation Biology Postdoc Biosciences
ORNL09-38-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Advanced Computation Postdoc or Post-Master's Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL09-37-NSSD Postdoctoral Research Associate for Neutron Scattering on CNCS Beam Line Postdoc Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL09-34-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Mathematics for Hybrid Numerical Methods Development Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL09-32-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Large-Scale, High-Performance Code Development Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL09-31-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Experimental Optics Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL09-29-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Materials Processing Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-27-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associates for the Bio-SANS Beam Line Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL09-25-FED Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plasma Physics - Fusion Engineering and Technology Postdoc Fusion Energy
ORNL09-24-ETSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Energy Analysis Postdoc Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL09-19-FED Postdoctoral Research Associate in Fusion Energy Postdoc Fusion Energy
ORNL09-17-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associate as a Tool Developer Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL09-13-FED Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Plasma Physicist (NSTX) Postdoc Fusion Energy
ORNL09-12-FED Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Plasma Physicist (JET) Postdoc Fusion Energy
ORNL09-10-NCCS Postdoctoral Research Associate for Grid Computing and Scientific Workflow Automation Postdoc National Center for Computational Sciences
ORNL09-06-ESD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Earth System Modeling Postdoc Environmental Sciences Division
ORNL09-04-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Density Functional Theory Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL09-02-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Quantum Monte Carlo Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-127-CSED Postdoctoral Research Associates for Applied Software Engineering Research Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-126-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Experimental Optics Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL08-123-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Materials for Electrical Energy Storage Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-122-CNMS Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials Postdoc Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
ORNL08-121-ETSD Post Master’s or Postdoctoral Research Associates in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Postdoc or Post-Master's Energy and Transportation Science Division
ORNL08-120-MSSE Post Master’s or Postdoctoral Research Associate in Physics or Engineering for Electro-optical Components & Systems Development Postdoc or Post-Master's Measurement Science and Systems Engineering Division
ORNL08-119-MSSE Post Master’s Research Associates in Image Science and Machine Vision Group Post-Master's Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-114-BESD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Protein/Ligands Interactions and Dynamics Postdoc Biosciences
ORNL08-111-CSMD Post-Master’s Research Associates in the Computer Science Research Group Post-Master's Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL08-110-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associates in the Computer Science Research Group Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL08-108-CSED Postdoctoral Research Associates in Knowledge Discovery Postdoc Computer Science and Engineering
ORNL08-106-ETSD Post Master’s Research Associates in Distributed Energy Resources Post-Master's Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-105-MSSED Postdoctoral or Post-Master's Research Associations in Engineering for Nanostructured Materials Fabrication and Characterization Postdoc or Post-Master's Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-104-CSMD Post Master’s Research Associates in the Pipeline Processing Solutions for Computational Proteomics Post-Master's Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL08-103-CSED Postdoctoral Research Associates in the Intelligence Community Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-102-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Computer Science and Mathematics Research Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL08-101-CSMD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Computer Science and Mathematics Research Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL08-99-BESD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Computational Environmental Science Postdoc Environmental Sciences Division
ORNL08-98-CSM Postdoctoral or Post-Master’s Research Associates in Computer Science Research Group Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL08-96-CSE Post Master’s Research Associates in Distributed Climate Statistics, Hydrologic Modeling, and Earth Science Informatics Post-Master's Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-95-CSE Postdoctoral Research Associates in Distributed Climate Statistics, Hydrologic Modeling, and Earth Science Informatics Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-91-MSTD Postdoctoral or Post Master’s Research Associate in Carbon Fiber Research and Development Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-90-CSED Postdoctoral Research Associate in Quantum Optics Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-88-ETSD Post Master’s Research Associate in Electrical Engineering Post-Master's Energy and Transportation Science
ORNL08-87-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Mechanical Behavior of Structural Materials (Metals and Alloys) Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-85-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Materials Chemistry Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-83-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Titanium and Titanium Alloy Materials Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-79-CNMS Postdoctoral Research Associate in Scanning Probe Microscopy for Functional Imaging Postdoc Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL08-77-FED Postdoctoral Research Associate in Fusion Energy Postdoc Fusion Energy
ORNL08-76-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Chemical Sciences Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-72-ETSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Building Envelopes Program Postdoc Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-71-BSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Protein Dynamics Postdoc Biosciences
ORNL08-67-CSED Postdoctoral Research Associates for the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-65-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Bio-inspired Membrane Systems Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-63-ESCD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Vehicle Imaging, Detection and Tracking Postdoc Electronics, Sensors, and Controls
ORNL08-62-NCCS Postdoctoral Research Associates in Tool Development Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-61-NCCS Postdoctoral Research Associates in MPI-I/O Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-59-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Extractive Separations Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-58-CSED Cyber Security Research Position Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-54-MSTD Postdoc Research Associates in Materials Joining Science and Technology Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-48-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nuclear Materials Science and Technology Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-46-BSD Computational Biologist / Bioinformaticist Postdoc Biosciences
ORNL08-45-ESD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plant Proteomics Postdoc Biosciences
ORNL08-44-ESD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gene Expression and Analysis Postdoc Biosciences
ORNL08-43-MSTD Postdoctoral Researcher(s) in Materials Theory Postdoc Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-37-CNMS Postdoctoral Research Associate in Carbon Nanostructures for Hydrogen Storage Postdoc Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL08-33-ESD Agronomist/Bioenergy Feedstock Analyst Postdoc Environmental Sciences Division
ORNL08-25-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate In Diamond Thin-Film Growth Studies Post-Master's Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-22-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate: Molecular Computational Modeling Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-14-ESTD Postgraduate Research Associate in Systems Engineer in Enterprise Knowledge-Based Systems Postdoc and Postmaster's Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-13-ESTD Postgraduate Research Associate in Fuels, Engines, and Emission Research Postdoc and Postmaster's Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-12-CSD Research Associate/Technician in Molecular Sciences Postmaster's Chemical Sciences Division
ORNL08-09-FED Postdoc Associate in Fueling Research in Magnetized Fusion Plasmas Postdoc Fusion Energy
ORNL08-01-BSD Computational Molecular Biophysics Postdoc and Postmaster's Biosciences
ORNL07-63-CSD Organic and Biological Mass Spectrometry Postdoctoral Associate Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL07-57-CSED Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Data Sciences Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL07-56-CSED Postdoctoral Position in Computational Sciences and Engineering Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL07-50-FUS-ENG Computational Research on Magnetized Fusion Plasmas Postdoc Fusion Energy
ORNL07-45-CSD Postdoctoral Research Position in
Mass Spectrometry Instrument Development
Postdoc Chemical Sciences
ORNL07-41-CSMD Postdoctoral Associate in Nanomechanics, AFM Postdoc Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL07-33-CSED Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Information Sciences Postdoc Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL07-30-MSTD Thermochemical Measurements and Modeling Postdoc Materials Science and Technology Division
ORNL07-29-CSED Geospatial Systems and Application Development Postdoc or Postmaster's Computational Sciences and Engineering Division