Featured Careers: R&D Engineering

At Los Alamos National Laboratory engineering is experimental and creative.

R&D engineering is experimental or creative engineering work that contributes to the scientific or engineering body of knowledge, or results in a tangible product that meets a mission need. It includes both engineering research and technology development, and engineering activities performed in support of R&D.

R&D Engineers work throughout the Laboratory.

Over 65 percent of engineers at LANL are R&D engineers. They come from all engineering disciplines—mechanical, electrical, nuclear, civil/structural, etc.—and work in all parts of the Lab. The R&D engineers of LANL:

• Design nuclear facility infrastructure like gloveboxes, process loops, containers, and transport systems. They develop static and dynamic process models for a variety of purposes and applications, including plutonium manufacturing processes.
• Engage in process and equipment design for nuclear facilities.
• Support the Nuclear Weapon Stockpile Stewardship Program and other defense programs. They assemble experimental weapon test devices and field test everything from material samples to full weapon assemblies, including high explosives and Rad materials.
• Design and implement mechanical, power, and control systems for the LANSCE beam-delivery complex, which includes the accelerator, proton storage ring, and associated beam-transfer lines.

Lab engineers work with dynamic organizations.

At the Laboratory you will find engineers in the laser, pulsed power and accelerator facilities. Intelligence and Space Research engineers perform space systems engineering and assembly. The Theoretical Division houses engineers who apply their expertise to R&D work, developing models for solid material response and other physical processes, nuclear reactions, and nanotechnology, to name a few.

Take some time to consider an engineering career with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Visit jobs.lanl.gov and discover your next career opportunity.