Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
High-Performance Computing · National Security
115open roles
$143kmedian advertised pay
Scaling fasthiring pace, 94 of 100
19 daysmedian time a role stays open
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.
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 17 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
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$122k – $186k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Livermore
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$146k – $223k per year · In office · Full-Time · Master's Degree · Livermore
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$201k – $255k per year · Hybrid · Nationals only · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Livermore
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$143k
Typical range
$62k – $518k
Open positions
147
147
Jobs
Intern
27.2%
Junior
23.8%
Middle
15.6%
Senior
31.3%
Staff
1.4%
Principal
0.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 40 | $62k | $62k – $123k |
| Junior | 35 | $143k | $96k – $223k |
| Middle | 23 | $223k | $126k – $223k |
| Senior | 46 | $223k | $104k – $346k |
| Staff | 2 | $360k | $360k |
| Principal | 1 | $518k | $518k |
Highest paying role
Intelligence Program Manager
$518k
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All salaries at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
By role, level and city, against the market · 147 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
94/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
157
97 opened / 88 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
18 days
faster than 61% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
11/11/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+756%
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
17%
Early Careers
16%
Field & Service
7% ▼
Operations
7%
AI/ML
6% ▼
Administrative
6%
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+23 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Princeton
Nov 2026
Added Vision-Language-Action to stack
Nov 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
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Added Function Calling to stack
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Added Digital Twin to stack
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Added Go to stack
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Added Docker Compose to stack
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Added ROS to stack
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Added NATS to stack
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Added MQTT to stack
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Added EVMS to stack
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Added Prometheus to stack
Nov 2026
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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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
215
Postings analysed
199
Stack modernity
68/100AI adopter
Languages
Python53%
C++24%
MATLAB24%
Java14%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch8%
TensorFlow6%
Angular4%
React.js4%
Databases
Oracle4%
MySQL3%
Cassandra2%
DynamoDB2%
Cloud & platforms
Linux14%
Unix8%
Windows8%
Kubernetes7%
AI & ML
LLM6%
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BUILD Computing
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Spack Computing
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's El Capitan verified as world's fastest supercomputer
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