DRI

Environmental Science · Research Institutes
11Open roles7 posted in 30 days
$80kMedian advertised pay$78k – $122k
16EmployeesUS Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -6% in a year

Facts

as of Nov 14, 2026

We are Nevada’s non-profit research institute, founded in 1959 to empower experts to focus on science that matters. We work with communities across the state –and the world– to address their most pressing scientific questions.

It is hiring: 11 open roles, 7 of them posted in the last 30 days.

Headquarters
Las Vegas, United States
Founded
1959
Employees
16US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -6% in a year
Open roles
11 in 2 citiesAlion job postings
Official records
Wikidata Q5264004
Website
dri.edu

As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 11 open roles at DRI. DRI is headquartered in Las Vegas, United States. It was founded in 1959. The median pay stated in its open roles is $80k, across 5 postings that state pay.

Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake

What the registers and the postings say about this employer.

Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices

Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.

HR is the largest family, 38 of open roles.

7Posted in 30 days64% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 11
2Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
16 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States16On site
Remote, from elsewhere0Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Alion signals0-100
Demand23
Pay49
Your chance52
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+175%
Sep 7This week
Open roles a week: 4 then, 11 now
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
HR38▲
Early Careers23▼
Education15▼
Administrative8▼
Science & Research8▲
Field & Service8▲
Newest roles
Executive Director, Division of Atmospheric Sciences
$250k per year · In office · Full-Time · Master's Degree · Reno
Staff Research Scientist, Field Specialist
$60k per year · In office · Nationals only · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Las Vegas
Technology Intern
≈ $39k – $66k per year (Estimated) · In office · Nationals only · Internship · Reno
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Spanish19%
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 50%High School Diploma 25%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 13%Master's Degree 13%
8 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Professional development545%
Relocation assistance545%
Annual leave436%
Health insurance436%
Life insurance218%
Flexible schedule19%
Growth opportunities19%
Contract type
Full-Time 5Internship 3Part-Time 3
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation offered
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

What its postings pay, by level.

$80kMedian
$78k – $122kTypical rangeUSD a year
$250kHighest paying roleExecutive Director, Division of Atmospheric Sciences
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year

Footprint

Hiring in 2 cities in 1 country.

2Cities
1Countries
RenoBusiest site
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SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
Las Vegas United StatesHeadquarters2Science & Research, Education50%
Reno United StatesCorporate office9HR, Early Careers, Education0%
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at DRI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

6Technologies in use
6Postings analysed
50/100Stack modernity
LanguagesPythonMATLAB
Practices & domainsSOAP
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site

Newsroom

top 0.02%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
3Hacker News storiesbest: 2 points
#76,183Web rankTranco top 1M
Aug 122026
Award
The Harold J. Kruse Farming and Environment Award was established in 2022 by Stephanie Kruse, DRI Foundation Trustee, to honor her father's legacy and recognize his farming busin…
Aug 112026
Blog
With extreme weather increasing across the world, scientists are striving to help critical infrastructure, such as water management systems, adapt. On the U.S. West coast, where…
Aug 42026
Blog
DRI's STEM Education Program is pleased to announce its Fall 2026 Educator Professional Development training series in Reno, offering free, hands-on learning experiences. These t…
Jul 272026
Blog
The Native Resilience project at DRI is pleased to announce the release of a new eBook, Holding the World in Balance: Indigenous stories of climate, care and continuance. This op…
Jul 232026
Blog
DRI and OpenET are partnering with the Upper Colorado River Commission and the Bureau of Reclamation to expand evaporation monitoring on the Upper Colorado River Basin's largest…
Jul 162026
Award
Dr. Lynn Fenstermaker, DRI Research Professor Emeritus, has generously funded the annual DRI Career Growth Award with the goal of assisting a DRI early career scientist who has d…
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once