Creative Energy. Supercharged with Science.

Accelerate your career with a new role at the nation's newest national laboratory. Here you can be part of a team exploring the building blocks of matter and lay the ground work for scientific discoveries that will reshape our understanding of the atomic nucleus. Join a community with a common purpose of solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems of our time.

 

Title Job ID Category Date Posted
Master HVAC Technician 13367 Misc./Trades
Director of Project Management Office 13454 Management
Lead Instrumentation Engineer - Magnet Measurement 13366 Engineering
SRF Accelerator Physicist 13424 Science
Mechanical Designer 13450 Misc./Trades
Storage Solutions Architect 13238 Computer
SRF Production Engineer 13434 Engineering
Director of Environment, Safety, and Health (ESH) 13453 Environmental Safety
Geant4 Developer 13214 Computer
Electron Ion Collider (EIC) Deputy Project Director 13439 Management
Chief of Staff Intern 13457 Management
Engineering Student Intern 13456 Engineering
Data Center Operations Manager 13327 Engineering
EIC Detector Scientist II 13449 Science
Manager of Conventional Facilities Project Management 13432 Engineering
Mechanical Engineer I 13458 Engineering
Hall A/C Staff Scientist 13399 Science
SRF Production Chemistry Supervisor 13386 Technology
Magnet Group Staff Engineer 13370 Engineering
Budget Analyst 13270 Clerical/Admin
Senior Procurement Manager 13413 Purchasing
High Throughput Computing (HTC) Hardware Engineer 13197 Computer
Hall C Staff Engineer II 13178 Engineering
Safety Engineer II 13425 Environmental Safety
RF Technician Supervisor 13437 Misc./Trades

A career at Jefferson Lab is more than a job. You will be part of “big science” and work alongside top scientists and engineers from around the world unlocking the secrets of our visible universe. Managed by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is entering an exciting period of mission growth and is seeking new team members ready to apply their skills and passion to have an impact. You could call it work, or you could call it a mission. We call it a challenge. We do things that will change the world.

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Why choose Jefferson Lab
  • PASSION AND PURPOSE
    Middle School Science Bowl competitors huddle together to brainstorm the answer.
  • PASSION AND PURPOSE
    Local teachers share ideas for a classroom activity with other teachers during Teacher Night.
  • PASSION AND PURPOSE
    Two young learners hold up a model of the atom during Deaf Science Camp.
  • PASSION AND PURPOSE
    Staff Scientist Douglas Higinbotham snaps a selfie with some of the postdoc students he is mentoring.

At Jefferson Lab we believe in giving back to our community and encouraging the next generation of scientists and engineers. Our staff reaches out to students to advance awareness and appreciation of the range of research carried out within the DOE national laboratory system, to increase interest in STEM careers for women and minorities, and to encourage everyone to become a part of the next-generation STEM workforce. We are recognized for our innovative programs like:

  • 1,500 students from 15 Title I schools engage in the Becoming Enthusiastic About Math and Science (BEAMS) program at the lab each school year.

  • 60 teachers are enrolled in the Jefferson Science Associates Activities for Teachers (JSAT) program at the lab inspiring 9,000 students annually.

  • 24 high school students have internships and 34 college students have mentorships at the lab.

     

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  • Todd Satogata, Senior Staff Scientist

    Committed to the future of scientists and science

    After working on two of the world's heavy-ion colliders, Satogata brings his life experiences and tireless passion for science to students and accelerators. 

    When Todd Satogata was seven years old, he sat outside on a hill, side by side with his mother looking up at the stars.

    “You know,” he remembers saying, “The light from that star we’re seeing, left the star about the time I was born.”

    With a natural curiosity for the goings-on of the universe, and a mind inclined toward math and science, Satogata recalls a childhood full of watching the television series Nova, reading Scientific American, and playing with logic puzzles while growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He dreamt of becoming anything from an airline pilot to a magician (but he would’ve been happy with becoming a puzzler like Martin Gardner, too).

    He had yet to discover accelerator physics.

    “I didn’t know accelerator physics was a job,” he said.

    Satogata attended the University of Cincinnati to pursue a degree in math, when he came to a life-altering realization.

    “I started to realize: I love math, but I could also tell that if I did only that, I’d be disconnected from hands-on applications more than I liked,” he said.

    The son of an intellectual Swede and a Japanese artist born in Hawaii, Satogata was wired from an early age to be service-oriented and care about his impact on the community. This led him to add physics as a second major.

    “Physics allows me to indulge my math and apply it to the real world,” he said. “It grounds my mathematics.”

    After his first physics class, Satogata was intrigued, and it wasn’t long before he was pursuing graduate studies at Northwestern University, where he was engaged in the experimental exploration of nonlinear dynamics of particle motion at Fermilab’s Tevatron. After completing his Ph.D., he began working on the design, construction, commissioning and operations of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab.

    Before working with $600-million equipment, however, Satogata delivered what felt like 600 million pizzas as a high-energy theorist in graduate school, managing a pizza parlor while simultaneously figuring out radiative corrections for CP violation.

    “I’ve learned something from every job I’ve been in,” Satogata said. “And managing a pizza parlor made me the perfect person to work in an accelerator control room.”

    Thousands of successful pizza deliveries later, Satogata worked in the control room, became a staff scientist, and taught students at Brookhaven. Then, in 2010, as Satogata was winding down his work on RHIC and the European Spallation Source, he received an opportunity to become involved at Jefferson Lab.

    “I assisted in the construction and evaluation of the new C100 cryomodules, participated in their commissioning, and acquired a joint appointment at Old Dominion University as a Jefferson Lab Professor,” Satogata explained. This continued to fulfill both his desire to be actively engaged in physics and to serve the next generation of physicists. It was also conveniently close to his fiancée, and now wife.

    Today, Satogata is a senior staff scientist in the Accelerator Division and is involved in designing, running and teaching the physics and operations of particle accelerators. He is now serving as director of the Center for the Advanced Studies of Accelerators. He said he enjoys getting into the office before everyone else and embracing the quiet while he reviews his to-do list that has six different sections.

    “The field of accelerator physics is a relatively small sub-discipline of physics. Single individuals can still do everything: hardware, operations, theory, programming, simulations and teaching,” he explained. “Contributions range from extremely practical, to the very cutting edge of what is possible with this technology; from multi-billion dollar unique facility design, to writing a textbook and teaching the new generation of young physicists.”

    A single day in Satogata’s life is always full of new challenges and potential. As he explains it, “basic science is a ship of exploration, and we are crew sailing off through uncharted waters to unknown lands.”

    Those unknown lands hold the answers to questions that have deep implications: how stars live and die, how heavier elements arise, how the pieces of the nuclear puzzle all fit together. Along the way, the physicists and engineers working on these experiments develop technologies today that may change lives tomorrow: MRIs, PET isotope production, and particle radiotherapy for cancer treatments.

    “Some people ask what’s possible here; it may be simpler to answer, ‘What isn’t possible here?’” Satogata said, with a smile.

    For now, Satogata comes into the office early and full of hopes for the next generation of scientists and accelerators while being simultaneously ready to work with his team to mature the science necessary to make the next generation of an accelerator happen.

    “I was born in the Year of the Horse,” Satogata said. “I sometimes think that is appropriate; I feel best when I can pull my share of the load towards a specific destination, and feel both the weight and the forward motion of the harness.”

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The Jefferson Lab campus is located in southeastern Virginia amidst a vibrant and growing technology community with deep historical roots that date back to the founding of our nation. Staff members can live on or near the waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region or find peace in the deeply wooded coastal plain. You will have easy access to nearby beaches, mountains, and all major metropolitan centers along the United States east coast.

To learn more about the region and its museums, wineries, parks, zoos and more, visit the Virginia tourism page, Virginia is for Lovers

To learn more about life at Jefferson Lab, click here.

 

We support our inventors! The lab provides resources to employees for the development of patented technology -- with over 180 awarded to date! Those looking to obtain patent coverage for their newly developed technologies and inventions while working at the lab are supported and mentored by technology experts, from its discovery to its applied commercialization, including opportunities for monetary awards and royalty sharing. Learn more about our patents and technologies here.

  • Holly Szumila-Vance
    Holly Szumila-Vance
    Staff Scientist

    "Today, we use a lot of those same teamwork traits [learned from the military] on a daily basis as we're all working toward similar goals here at the lab in better understanding nuclei!"

  • Welding Program Manager
    Jenord Alston
    Welding Program Manager

    "Everybody in the chain is working towards the same goal: to ensure that everything is built safe and to the code specifications"

  • Scott Conley
    Scott Conley
    Environmental Management Team

    "There is world-class research going on here. Any given day you can be in the room with genius physicists and that’s just amazing.”

  • Katherine Wilson
    Katherine Wilson
    Staff Engineer

    “Generally, the mechanical engineers at the lab support the physicists. The physicists have the big ideas about how to support new science, and the engineers figure out how to make that happen.”

  • Jian-Ping Chen
    Jian-Ping Chen
    Senior Staff Scientist

    “Every time we solve problems, we contribute. It’s exciting times for new results and discoveries.”

Jefferson Science Associates, LLC manages and operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Jefferson Science Associates/Jefferson Lab is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, or veteran status or on any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting @jlab.org or call (757) 269-7100 between 8 am – 5 pm EST to provide the nature of your request.

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