LLNL
Materials Microstructure Modeler – Postdoctoral Researcher
At a Glance
- Location
- Livermore, California, United States
- Work Regime
- onsite
- Employment
- Full-time
- Posted
- 2026-03-19T18:53:14.144Z
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Education
- Engineering
Benefits & Perks
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Requirements
Experience in visualization, characterization, & analysis of heterogeneous microstructure with defects.
Experience with AI/ML methods of generating synthetic microstructures.
Experience simulating shocks in microstructures with defects.
Experience with energetic material microstructures.
Experience using diffusion or GAN AI techniques for synthetic microstructure generation with defects.
Compensation & Benefits
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Position Information
This is a Postdoctoral appointment with the possibility of extension to a maximum of three years, open to those who have been awarded a PhD at time of hire date.
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Responsibilities
Material Microstructure Modeler – Postdoctoral Researcher
to conduct research in the analysis of microstructures of energetic materials.
You will actively participate in a research group of material scientists and computational modelers and use cutting-edge AI/ML tools to develop summary features, decipher and quantify age-related changes, augment database with synthetic structures, perform grain-scale simulations, create surrogate models, and build process-structure-property-performance correlations.
Reaction Dynamics Group
within the Energetic Materials & Design (EMD) section of the Materials Science Division, supporting the Energetic Materials Center (EMC).
Contribute to the conception, design, and execution of computational modeling research to address defined problems involving energetic microstructures.
About the Company
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