Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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How Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hires
Truth index
B 80/100
Median time to fill
19 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 26 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 19 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is an American national laboratory founded in 1952 to work on nuclear weapons design, and it remains one of the two laboratories responsible for certifying the United States stockpile without explosive testing. Its work now spans stockpile stewardship, high-performance computing, inertial fusion at the National Ignition Facility, which achieved fusion ignition in 2022, biosecurity, energy research and counterterrorism. Located in Livermore, California and operated for the Department of Energy by a consortium including the University of California, it employs thousands of scientists and engineers, most requiring security clearance.
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LZ dark matter experiment sets a world's best and spots neutrinos from the sun's core
There's more to the universe than meets the eye. Dark matter, the invisible substance that accounts for 85 percent of the mass in the universe, is hiding all around us - and figuring out exactly what it is remains one of the biggest questions about how ou
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SUNDIALS Computing
This project solves initial value problems for ODE systems, sensitivity analysis capabilities, additive Runge-Kutta methods, DAE systems, and nonlinear algebraic systems.
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Gordon Bell finalist team pushes scale of rocket simulation on El Capitan
Researchers used Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) exascale supercomputer El Capitan to perform the largest fluid dynamics simulation ever - surpassing one quadrillion degrees of freedom in a single computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problem
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LLNL and partners launch record-breaking protein-folding workflow on world's fastest supercomputer
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and collaborators at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Columbia University have achieved a milestone in biological computing: completing the largest and fastest protein structure prediction workfl
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BUILD Computing
BUILD tackles the complexities of HPC software integration with dependency compatibility models, binary analysis tools, efficient logic solvers, and configuration optimization techniques.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
141
Postings analysed
103
Stack modernity
70/100AI adopter
Languages
Python50%
C++23%
Java16%
MATLAB15%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch10%
TensorFlow9%
Angular6%
PyTorch C++4%
Databases
Oracle8%
MySQL5%
Cassandra3%
DynamoDB3%
Cloud & platforms
Linux16%
Unix12%
AWS10%
Windows10%
AI & ML
LLM5%
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Full Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory tech stack
141 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$151k
Typical range
$34k – $267k
Open positions
107
107
Jobs
Intern
18.7%
Junior
26.2%
Middle
15.9%
Senior
39.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 20 | $62k | $34k – $123k |
| Junior | 28 | $137k | $93k – $186k |
| Middle | 17 | $223k | $126k – $223k |
| Senior | 42 | $223k | $90k – $267k |
Highest paying role
Senior Semiconductor Laser Device Engineer
$267k
Normalized to USD per year
Products
Energy and Climate Research
Research on energy systems, carbon management and climate modelling. It uses the same computational capability the weapons programme funds, which is how the laboratory justifies breadth beyond its core mission.
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Biosecurity and Bioscience
Detection, forensics and countermeasures for biological and chemical threats. The laboratory contributed heavily to pandemic response, applying capabilities originally built for weapons detection and attribution.
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High Performance Computing
Some of the most powerful supercomputers in existence, including the exascale El Capitan system. Weapons certification drives the requirement, and the resulting capability spills into climate, materials and biology research.
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National Ignition Facility
The world's largest laser system, which achieved fusion ignition for the first time in 2022. It was built for weapons physics research, and the fusion energy results are a by-product of that primary mission.
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Stockpile Stewardship
Certification that the American nuclear stockpile remains safe and reliable without explosive testing. Substituting simulation and experiment for actual detonation is the reason the laboratory needs the world's fastest computers.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
93/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
112
84 opened / 56 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
16 days
faster than 55% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~12 hours
09/27/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
19% ▼
Early Careers
13% ▲
AI/ML
10% ▼
Field & Service
8% ▲
Backend
6% ▼
Science & Research
6% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+20 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
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115 open roles 151 posted in 90 days 43% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $168k Avg Salary
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$122k – $143k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • PhD • Livermore
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$122k – $143k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • PhD • Livermore
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$122k – $186k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Livermore
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$176k – $267k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Livermore
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$123k per year • In office • Full-Time • PhD • Livermore
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$46k – $62k per year • Hybrid • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Livermore
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$146k – $223k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Livermore
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$123k per year • In office • Full-Time • PhD • Livermore
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