Are you looking for a unique opportunity to develop world-class solutions for powerful petascale computational systems?

We're inviting outstanding candidates to apply for a variety of open positions in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) new supercomputing facility at Argonne National Laboratory.

With roughly 3,200 employees from nearly 60 nations (including about 1,000 scientists and engineers), Argonne National Laboratory hires top-quality staff who find personal and professional fulfillment in their work. The lab is located twenty-five miles southwest of Chicago—situated on 1,500 beautiful, wooded acres and surrounded by the Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve. 

Argonne’s surrounding communities offer housing and amenities to suit all tastes. The Chicago area boasts top-rated schools and universities and a superior transportation network of interstate highways, rail and bus lines. The laboratory’s campus is about half an hour by freeway from two major international airports, O’Hare and Midway. Agronne’s proximity to Chicago offers employees and their families access to world-class museums, an award-winning theatre scene, major music and dance companies, the world-renowned lakefront, boating and fishing, premier shopping and fashion, distinct and culturally diverse neighborhoods, more than 7000 restaurants and eateries, and sports teams in all major sports.

For the most current listing of opportunities within ALCF, please visit Argonne's Careers Page.

ALCF Career Opportunities

HPC Systems Administration Specialist
As a member of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility`s (ALCF) High Performance Computing (HPC) team, appointee will participate in the technical operation, support and continued development of the first class HPC facilities of the ALCF division and laboratory in order to enhance the productivity of the scientific staff and research colleagues of the division. With the ALCF technical staff and colleagues at other labs and universities, assists with the coordination of similar systems. Special emphasis of this position is to lead efforts in building and maintaining next generation ALCF HPC systems and clusters, creating technical documentation for end-users and internal use, and providing technical support to the users of the resources. If you have interest in this position, we invite you to submit an online application for LCF Requisition #319999.

Division Postdoctoral Positions

Build the future of computational science. This is a unique opportunity to jump-start the next generation of large-scale computational science as part of a cutting-edge organization, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, and as part of an extraordinary team of peer postdoctoral appointees.

Division Postdoctoral Appointment
We are looking for three postdocs with high-performance computational science skills to introduce new techniques that substantially improve the performance or range of science and engineering that can be addressed by petascale science applications. The appointees will work closely with multi-disciplinary ALCF teams and science project teams to address challenges of high-performance science and engineering applications.  May partner with other petascale centers or tool development efforts to address common challenges.  If you are interested in joining ALCF's postdoctoral team, we invite you to complete the online application for LCF Requisition #319331.

Division Postdoctoral Appointment
The successful candidate will work with a team of scientists and performance engineers at the ALCF on performance modeling and projection. The goal is to understand and project an application’s performance on existing and future HPC hardware platforms. Target hardware features include, but are not limited to, accelerators, multi-core architectures, processor-in-memory, memory and interconnect subsystems, and energy efficiency.  The incumbent will research and develop new modeling techniques and apply them to computational science applications at the ALCF.  We invite interested postdocs to apply for LCF Requisition #320063.

Division Postdoctoral Appointment - Visualization & Analysis
The candidate will work with a team of computer scientists and computational scientists at the ALCF on novel solutions for large-scale data analysis and visualization. The goal is to understand and develop scalable data visualization and analysis algorithms and tools to address to the large and complex data characteristics of ALCF applications and in general data-intensive applications on current and future HPC platforms. Additionally, the incumbent will collaborate with JCESR energy hub, the SDAV SciDAC Institute, the CESAR Exascale Co-Design Center, and the High-Energy Physics Cosmology SciDAC Institute.  We invite interested postdocs to apply for LCF Requisition #320448.

Division Postdoctoral Appointment - Data Centric HPC
The candidate will work with a team of computer scientists, computational scientists and performance engineers at the ALCF on novel solutions for data-centric high-performance computing. The goal is to understand and develop programming models and runtime solutions to address the data needs of ALCF applications and in general data-intensive applications on current and future HPC platforms. Another key aspect would involve research and development of data-centric HPC architectures in close collaboration with vendors and applications. Additionally, the incumbent will collaborate with the High-Energy Physics Cosmology SciDAC Institute, the CESAR Exascale Co-Design Center, and the SDAV SciDAC Institute.  We invite interested postdocs to apply for LCF Requisition #320440.

ES/LCF Joint Postdoctoral Appointment
The appointee will work at the Energy Systems Division and in a joint appointment with the ALCF to perform computational fluid dynamics simulations of compression ignition engine fuel spray, combustion, and emissions using high-performance computing.  Performance tools will be used to identify bottlenecks in current engine simulations (load imbalances, I/O problems, memory constraints, etc). The successful candidate will work on ALCF computing resources as part of a multidisciplinary team involving engine modelers and computational scientists to enhance the predictive capability of engine modeling codes. We invite interested postdocs to apply for ES Requisition #320028.