[IRIS] (Job) Career Seismologist Position - LLNL

[IRIS]

The Seismology Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has an  
immediate opening for a scientist to perform research in support of  
the Ground-based Nuclear Explosion Monitoring (GNEM) Program.   
Research will include seismic and other technologies to support  
monitoring of nuclear test limitation treaties, as well as existing  
and future GNEM requirements.  Research will focus on developing and  
testing techniques to improve the ability to detect, locate and  
identify small magnitude seismic events.  This individual will work  
independently and within a group, and will interact with internal and  
external researchers.  This position will report to the Seismology  
group leader and the GNEM Program or task leaders.

This is an Indefinite Career position. LLNL employees and external  
candidates may be considered for this position.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES
- Conduct independent research and development to improve methods to  
detect, locate, estimate magnitudes and identify seismic events in  
collaboration with other LLNL researchers.
- Develop, write, evaluate and apply algorithms to improve location,  
identification, and/or characterization of seismic events using data  
from the LLNL Seismic Research Database.
- Produce calibration products and other deliverables that improve  
nuclear test monitoring, including design, content generation and  
reporting.
- Lead the formulation and preparation of proposals, reports, journal  
articles and briefings as needed in support of the GNEM and other  
programs.
- Communicate and collaborate with researchers in other national  
labs, government, academia and industry.

MARGINAL DUTIES
- Provide expertise in geophysical analysis and/or field support to  
nuclear nonproliferation, weapons of mass destruction, or other  
projects at LLNL.
- Provide technical supervision of contract employees, postdocs and/ 
or graduate students.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES
- Ph.D. degree in seismology, geophysics or related field, or  
demonstrated knowledge and experience.
- Demonstrated creativity, ability, and knowledge in one or more  
areas of specialization relevant to nuclear explosion monitoring,  
such as detection of low signal-to-noise signals, sparse network  
event location, explosion/earthquake discrimination, seismic velocity  
model estimation and/or synthetic seismogram calculations.
- Experience conducting underground nuclear test research through the  
development phase and into application for current and future customers.
- Demonstrated experience with seismic waveform signal-processing  
analysis including measurement of arrivals times, amplitudes and  
waveform correlation properties.
- Ability to work effectively with a team of interdisciplinary  
scientists.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills as evidenced by  
recent scientific presentations, reports and publications.
- Effective analytical and computational skills.
- Ability to program in JAVA, C, C++ and/or FORTRAN, familiarity with  
UNIX and LINUX platforms and ability to program shell scripts (e.g. C- 
shell, awk, perl, python).
- Familiarity with relational databases and Structured Query Language  
(SQL).

DESIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES
- Ability to write and debug seismic analysis software.
- Ability to write, test, and debug complex relational database queries.
- Experience in a variety of geophysical techniques and in their  
application.
- Knowledge of U.S. monitoring requirements and familiarity with  
customers of GNEM research.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Pre-Placement Medical Exam: None
Anticipated Clearance Level: Q, requires US citizenship

For further information contact Arthur Rodgers, rodgers7 at llnl.gov,  
925-423-5018. LLNL offers a challenging environment and a competitive  
salary/benefits package. To view and apply for this job, go to http:// 
jobs.llnl.gov, search by job # 005842. When applying and prompted  
please mention where you saw this ad. LLNL is operated by the  
University of California for the National Nuclear Security  
Administration/Department of Energy. We are proud to be an equal  
opportunity employer with a commitment to workforce diversity.