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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is hiring an Administrative Assistant III to support the Laboratory Directorate. Reporting to the Chief of Staff (COS), this position provides a high level of administrative support services to members of the Laboratory's Leadership team. The Directorate Office is the "face" of our organization, welcoming staff and visitors to Berkeley Lab. You will be an integral part of the Directorate team, who are part administrators, part leadership support, and part cultural ambassadors. This position has an anticipated start date of April 13, 2026. What You Will Do: As one of the administrative points of contact for the Directorate/Operations suites, you will help the team on a variety of important tasks, including assisting with special events and high-level meeting planning logistics, support for key leadership meetings such as the twice-yearly Lab Advisory Board gatherings, weekly Associate Lab Director meetings, and visits of important...

Berkeley Lab's (LBNL) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has an opening for a Senior Scientific Data Platform Engineer to play a critical role in transforming raw scientific outputs into high-value, AI-ready data assets that directly support JGI's mission. In this exciting role, you will analyze scientific use-cases, data management challenges, and design robust, automated, and cost-effective solutions to address them. Working at the intersection of scientific data and the data lakehouse platform, this position will contribute to the development and maintenance of JGI's Data Lakehouse effort, leading ongoing integration efforts to ensure scientific data is well-structured, accessible, and optimized for use by domain scientists and downstream AI applications. The JGI's mission is to provide the global research community with access to the most advanced integrative genome science capabilities in support of the DOEs research mission to solve the world's evolving energy and environmental...

As a member of the Facilities Division within the Site Utilities and Maintenance (SUM) Department, the Lead Groundskeeper oversees a team of 2 -5 craft workers responsible for maintaining Laboratory grounds. This role includes performing and leading semi-skilled and skilled grounds maintenance tasks such as lawn care, trimming, pruning, planting, watering, and general landscape upkeep. The Lead Groundskeeper provides leadership on assigned work scope and objectives, ensures safety oversight through pre-job briefings, supports staff with work order questions, and escalates hazards or significant safety concerns to Supervisors or Line Management as needed. The role requires working independently on routine assignments while maintaining strong coordination with leadership. Responsibilities also include managing tools and equipment by receiving, storing, issuing, and tracking inventory; maintaining records; ensuring proper cleaning, maintenance, and minor repairs coordinating...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring a Plant Maintenance Technician within the Facilities division.You will install, repair and maintain equipment and systems critical to Laboratory operations and the pursuit of world-class science. You will perform varied tasks essential day-to-day operation of the plant facilities systems, complete preventive maintenance, make small and complex equipment repairs, monitor and respond to control systems alarms and perform emergency repairs and equipment replacement when needed. We're here for the same mission, to bring science solutions to the world. Join our team and YOU will play a supporting role in our goal to address global challenges! Have a high level of impact and work for an organization associated with 17 Nobel Prizes! Why join Berkeley Lab? We invest in our employees by offering a total rewards package you can count on: Exceptional health and retirement benefits, including pension or 401K-style plans Opportunities...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring a Transportation Research Scientist within the Energy Analysis division.You will support various passenger and freight transportation system modeling and analysis projects to identify and quantify energy, environment, and mobility implications from changes to the transportation system using interdisciplinary methods that combine engineering, economics, human behavior, technology, and computer science. We are seeking candidates with specific interests in the design and development of integrated transportation models at various scales and levels of resolution, including agent-based simulation models of future transportation systems that have greater shares of shared, connected, automated and electrified travel modes, with the goal of identifying new opportunities to reduce energy costs while increasing mobility and efficiency. In this role, you will creatively develop new methods to understand the behavior of complex socio-technical...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) relies on an extensive network of Energy Management and Control Systems (EMCS) to operate its campus-supporting building and energy management, lighting and safety, HVAC control, and critical alarm notifications essential to scientific programs. As part of LBNL's Facilities Engineering Team, the Control Systems Engineer (CSE) will design, manage, and maintain these systems to ensure reliability, availability, and security. Responsibilities include troubleshooting controllers and networks, performing IT and database maintenance, and managing energy and facility monitoring systems. The CSE will also support capital projects through design review, oversight, and contractor coordination. The CSE 3 will lead energy management, HVAC, and control system retrofit projects across multiple occupied facilities, requiring sound judgment in implementing complex process control modifications with minimal supervision. Duties include planning and...

Berkeley Lab's (LBNL) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has an opening for a Software Developer to join the Genomics Analysis Team! In this exciting role, you will support the development, maintenance, and optimization of critical infrastructure supporting large-scale genomics research. This role focuses on supporting the automation of a diverse set of genome analysis pipelines and their associated quality control processes. It is central to building the Institute's analytical capabilities, enabling growth from processing tens to hundreds of thousands of samples in support of exciting, large-scale scientific initiatives. This hands-on role involves building and maintaining next-generation sequencing (NGS) data processing pipelines, designing relational databases for genomics data, and creating internal web applications for data visualization and pipeline monitoring. You will work with a substantial existing codebase, learning complex systems while adding new functionality based on...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring a Computational Research Scientist within the Building and Industrial Energy Systems Division. The Computational Research Scientist will conduct research, develop and apply AI technologies to support design, operation, and retrofit of buildings for optimal performance of energy efficiency, demand flexibility, and occupant comfort. Current research in LBNL's Building and Industrial Energy Systems Division includes the development and application of building energy simulation, research on building controls, performance monitoring, window systems, high performance facades, management of peak electricity demand, and benchmarking of building energy performance. The incumbent will focus on research and application of advanced AI methods and tools to automate building energy modeling, develop digital twins of buildings, prototype robotic technologies for HVAC systems in buildings, as well as collaborate with BIES staff on related projects....

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar within the Energy Technologies & Systems division.The HackingMaterials group has confirmed funding to hire a postdoc to develop theories and software for materials synthesis planning and automated solar data degradation pathway analysis based on literature data. You will support two DOE projects at 50% each. The first project is the DOE BES Data-Driven Synthesis Science program in which the postdoc will combine literature data extraction, LLM reasoning, and theoretical materials science to guide synthesis protocols for automated sol-gel and solid-state synthesis science. The second project is the DOE CMEI Durable Module Materials Program for which the postdoc will use literature data extraction to understand degradation pathways of materials in solar photovoltaic modules. We're here for the same mission, to bring science solutions to the world. Join our team and YOU will play a supporting role in our goal...