data scientist postdoctoral research staff member location livermore ca category post docs organization computation posting requirement external posting job id 105237 job code postdr research staff 1 pds1 date posted april 18 2019 science and technology on a mission for more than 60 years the lawrence livermore national laboratory llnl has applied science and technology to make the world a safer place we have multiple openings for postdoctoral research staff members to engage in the research design and deployment of machine learning and statistical methods to solve important data and science problems stemming from the laboratorys mission spaces you will work as part of collaborative multidisciplinary teams to support a variety of application areas such as material science high energy physics predictive medicine cybersecurity climate modeling these positions are in the center for applied scientific computing casc division within the computation directorate essential duties research design implement and apply a variety of advanced data science methods for multiple applications in a collaborative scientific environment actively participate with project scientists and engineers in defining planning and formulating experimental modeling and simulation efforts for complex problems stemming from national security applications propose and implement advanced analysis methodologies collect and analyze data and document results in technical reports and peerreviewed publications contribute to grant proposals and collaborate with others in a multidisciplinary team environment including academic and industrial partners to accomplish research goals pursue independent but complementary research interests and interact with a broad spectrum of scientists internal and external to the laboratory perform other duties as assigned qualifications recent phd in machine learning statistics computer science mathematics or a related field demonstrated ability and desire to obtain substantial domain knowledge in fields of application and ability to communicate effectively with subject matter experts experience with developing implementing and applying advanced statistical and machine learning models and algorithms demonstrated research ability as documented by publications reports and presentations experience applying advanced data analysis methodologies for prediction and scientific discovery while integrating a thorough understanding of the underlying mechanisms generating the data in computer science machine learning computational statistics and uncertainty quantification advanced analytical and problemsolving skills necessary to craft creative solutions to independently solve complex problems programming skills in at least one prototyping language pythonrmatlab as well as one of ccfortran to enable highdimensional data analysis on hpc platforms proficient verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate in a team environment present and explain technical information to technical as well nontechnical audience document work and write research papers desired qualifications experience with highperformance computing gpu programming parallel programming cloud computing andor related methods demonstrated technical leadership in fields related to data science preemployment drug test external applicants selected for this position will be required to pass a postoffer preemployment drug test this includes testing for use of marijuana as federal law applies to us as a federal contractor security clearance none required note this is