Current ORNL Openings for Postdocs and Other Postgraduates 
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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
ORNL08-78-CNMS Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nanotransport via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Postdoctoral Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL08-77-FED Postdoctoral Research Associate in Fusion Energy Postdoctoral Fusion Energy
ORNL08-73-NSSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Beam Instrumentation Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL08-76-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Chemical Sciences Postdoctoral Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-75-BSD Postdoctoral Position in Bioinformatics and Microbial Systems Biology Postdoctoral Biosciences
ORNL08-74-MSSE Postdoctoral Research Associate in Image Science and Machine Vision Group Postdoctoral Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-72-ETSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Building Envelopes Program Postdoctoral Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-71-BSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Protein Dynamics Postdoctoral Biosciences
ORNL08-70-NSSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Beam Instrumentation Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL08-69-CSD Post-Master's Research Associates for the Bio-SANS Beam Line Post-Master's Center for Structural Molecular Biology
ORNL08-68-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associates for the Bio-SANS Beam Line Postdoctoral Center for Structural Molecular Biology
ORNL08-67-CSED Postdoctoral Research Associates for the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory Postdoctoral Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-66-BESD Postdoctoral Research Associates in the Nanoscale Science and Devices Group Postdoctoral Biosciences
ORNL08-65-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Bio-inspired Membrane Systems Postdoctoral Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-64-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Epitaxial Complex Oxide Heterostructures Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-63-ESCD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Vehicle Imaging, Detection and Tracking Postdoctoral Electronics, Sensors, and Controls
ORNL08-62-NCCS Postdoctoral Research Associates in Tool Development Postdoctoral Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-61-NCCS Postdoctoral Research Associates in MPI-I/O Postdoctoral Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-60-NSSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Neutron Scattering Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science Division, Spallation Neutron Source
ORNL08-59-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Extractive Separations Postdoctoral Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-58-CSED Cyber Security Research Position Postdoctoral Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-57-CNMS Postdoctoral Research Associates in Organic Synthesis Postdoctoral Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
ORNL08-54-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Materials Joining Science and Technology Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-53-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Materials Joining Science and Technology Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-51-NSSD SNS Instrument Development Fellowship Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL08-50-BSD Postdoctoral Research Associates in Molecular Microbiology Postdoctoral Biosciences
ORNL08-49-CNMS Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nanofabrication Research Postdoctoral Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL08-48-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nuclear Materials Science and Technology Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-47-ESD Environmental Informatics/Junior Java Developer Post-Master's Environmental Sciences
ORNL08-46-BSD Computational Biologist / Bioinformaticist Postdoctoral Biosciences
ORNL08-45-ESD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plant Proteomics Postdoctoral Biosciences
ORNL08-44-ESD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gene Expression and Analysis Postdoctoral Biosciences
ORNL08-43-MSTD Postdoctoral Researcher(s) in Materials Theory Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-42-CSD Post-Master’s Associate in Forensic Mass Spectrometry Post-Master's Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-40-CNMS Postdoctoral Associate in Carbon Nanomaterial Chemistry and Hybrid Architectures Postdoctoral Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL08-39-BSD Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental Microbial Ecology and Physiology Postdoctoral Biosciences
ORNL08-38-CSD Postdoctoral Associate in Conducting Polymers Postdoctoral Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-37-CNMS Postdoctoral Research Associate in Carbon Nanostructures for Hydrogen Storage Postdoctoral Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL08-36-BSD Postdoctoral Associate in Microbial Genetics Postdoctoral Biosciences
ORNL08-33-ESD Agronomist/Bioenergy Feedstock Analyst Postdoctoral Environmental Sciences Division
ORNL08-32-NSSD Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neutron Scattering – ARCS Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL08-30-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate: Protein Structure, Function & Dynamics Postdoctoral Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-29-CSD Research Associate/Technician Posts Post-Master's Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-28-CNMS Postdoctoral Research Position Postdoctoral Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL08-25-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate In Diamond Thin-Film Growth Studies Post-Master's Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-24-ESD Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Analyst Post-Master's Environmental Sciences Division
ORNL08-23-MSTD Combined Scanning Transmission and Scanning Probe Microscopy of Ferroelectrics Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-22-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate: Molecular Computational Modeling Postdoctoral Chemical Sciences
ORNL08-21-NSSD Postdoctoral Research Associate: Virus Structure and Function Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL08-18-BSD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Microbial Physiology/Functional Genomics Postdoctoral Bioenergy Science Center/
Bioscience Division
ORNL08-17-MSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Systems in Complex-Oxide Heterostructures Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology
ORNL08-16-ESTD Engineering Graduates Needed for Superhydrophobic Materials Fabrication and Characterization Postdoctoral Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-15-CSED Software Testing and Analysis Postdoc Position Postdoctoral and Postmaster's Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL08-14-ESTD Postgraduate Research Associate in Systems Engineer in Enterprise Knowledge-Based Systems Postdoctoral and Postmaster's Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-13-ESTD Postgraduate Research Associate in Fuels, Engines, and Emission Research Postdoctoral and Postmaster's Engineering Science and Technology
ORNL08-12-CSD Research Associate/Technician in Molecular Sciences Postmaster's Chemical Sciences Division
ORNL08-11-NSSD Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neutron Scattering Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science Division
ORNL08-09-FED Postdoctoral Associate in Fueling Research in Magnetized Fusion Plasmas Postdoctoral Fusion Energy
ORNL08-08-NSSD Neutron Scattering Postdoctoral Research Fellow Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL08-01-BSD Computational Molecular Biophysics Postdoctoral and Postmaster's Biosciences
ORNL07-82-NSSD Neutron Scattering Postdoctoral Research Fellow Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL07-81-NSTD Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Radiation Transportation & Criticality Group Postdoctoral Nuclear Science and Technology
ORNL07-80 -MSTD Postdoctoral Fellow in Materials Science Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology
ORNL07-79-MSTD Condensed Matter Theory Post-Doctoral Researcher Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology
ORNL07-77-BSD Postdoctoral Research Associate – Microbial Physiology/Comparative Genomics Postdoctoral Biosciences
ORNL07-76-CSD Postdoctoral Associate to Join Proteogenomics Research Team Postdoctoral Chemical Sciences
ORNL07-75-CNMS Computational Research in Heterogeneous Catalysis Postdoctoral Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL07-74-CSD Postdoctoral Research Associate Position in Structural Biology Postdoctoral Chemical Sciences
ORNL07-73-ESD Environmental Informatics/WebGIS Postdoctoral & Postmaster's Environmental Sciences Division
ORNL07- 72-NSSD Neutron Scattering Postdoctoral Research Fellow Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL07-70-CNMS CNMS Scanning Probe Microscopy of Electromechanical Coupling Phenomena Postdoctoral Center for Nanophase Materials Science
ORNL07-65-SNS Beam Instrumentation Electrical Engineer/Application Programming Postmaster's Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL07-64-NSD Beam Instrumentation Post-Doc Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL07-63-CSD Organic and Biological Mass Spectrometry Postdoctoral Associate Postdoctoral Chemical Sciences
ORNL07-60-ESTD Atom Probe Tomography Scientist Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology
ORNL07-57-CSED Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Data Sciences Postdoctoral Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL07-56-CSED Postdoctoral Position in Computational Sciences and Engineering Postdoctoral Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL07-52-BSD Post-Master's Research Associate Position in Biofuel Cells Postmaster's Biosciences
ORNL07-50-FUS-ENG Computational Research on Magnetized Fusion Plasmas Postdoctoral Fusion Energy
ORNL07-45-CSD Postdoctoral Research Position in
Mass Spectrometry Instrument Development		 Postdoctoral Chemical Sciences
ORNL07-41-CSMD Postdoctoral Associate in Nanomechanics, AFM Postdoctoral Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL07-40-CSMD Postdoctoral Associate in Nonlinear Dynamics Postdoctoral Computer Science and Mathematics
ORNL07-33-CSED Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Information Sciences Postdoctoral Computational Sciences and Engineering
ORNL07-32-SNS Control System Programmer Postdoctoral Neutron Scattering Science
ORNL07-30-MSTD Thermochemical Measurements and Modeling Postdoctoral Materials Science and Technology Division
ORNL07-29-CSED Geospatial Systems and Application Development Postdoctoral or Postmaster's Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
ORNL07-26-PHY Planetary Atmosphere X-ray Emission Postdoctoral Physics Division

 

Applicants to positions listed below should open the position description below and follow the instructions for applying as stated in the posting.
Posting Number Position Level ORNL Division
ORNL06-39-CSMD Postdoctoral Associate - Advanced Computational Methods for Maritime Sensing Postdoctoral Computer Science and Mathematics Division
ORNL06-03-2-CSED Postgraduate Research Position in Cyber Security Research Postdoctoral Cyber Security and Information Infrastructure Research Group
ORNL06-04-ESTD Postdoctoral and Postmaster's Positions in Transportation Network Modeling Postdoctoral & Postmaster's Engineering Science and Technology Division