Job Summary:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory that addresses the nation's most pressing challenges. They are seeking a Senior Research Scientist to advance AI for science using leadership-class supercomputers, focusing on scientific reasoning, federated learning, and reinforcement learning to accelerate discovery across various domains.
Responsibilities:
• Develop and coordinate division activities in HPC-AI with cross-cutting initiatives in the laboratory by establishing forward-looking centers of excellence.
• Lead and collaborate with internal and external researchers on a variety of extreme-scale AI/ML research and projects.
• Lead in authoring peer reviewed papers, technical papers, reports, and proposals. Advance personal and staff contributions in leading professional, academic, and research organizations.
• Advance personal and staff contributions in leading professional, academic, and research organizations.
• Team Building & Mentorship: Provide mentorship to postdocs, students, and junior staff, fostering long-term career development.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Effectively communicate vision, strategy, and progress to DOE sponsors, industrial partners, and international collaborators.
Qualifications:
Required:
• PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a field closely related to the job duties of this position.
• A minimum of 6 years of relevant research experience outside of Ph.D.
• Demonstrated research in cross-cutting fields of HPC and/or AI.
Preferred:
• Demonstrated leadership in conceiving, planning, and delivering large-scale HPC-AI projects with measurable scientific or technological impact.
• Experience securing competitive funding (e.g., DOE, NSF, DARPA, industry consortia) and leading multi-institution proposals.
• Recognition by the broader community – invited talks, keynote addresses, professional society awards, or major benchmarks.
• Impactful open-source contributions to HPC or AI framework (e.g., Megatron-LM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Distributed RL)
• Interdisciplinary collaboration experience – working with domain scientist (climate, material, fusion, biology) to translate methods into real discoveries.
• Strategic vision – ability to identify long-term research directions at the intersection of AI, HPC and domain sciences.
Company:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory holds a range of R&D assignments, from fundamental nuclear physics to applied R&D on advanced energy systems. Founded in 1943, the company is headquartered in Oak Ridge, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.