Location: Los Alamos, NM
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
**This position is open for external candidates only to apply.** **What You Will Do** Be part of an outstanding team of Ph.D. statisticians that is consistently recognized for award-winning research and high-impact contributions here in the Statistics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. As a statistician in our group, you will develop solutions to novel, meaningful, and complex interdisciplinary problems in partnership with world-leading scientists across an array of domains. As an effective member of our group, you will bring extensive technical expertise, communication, and problem-solving skills to our collaborative environment, partnering with domain experts in areas that span materials science, environmental modeling, cosmology, epidemiology, cyber security, image analysis, and complex engineered systems, including the nuclear stockpile. Simulation, high-performance computing, and AI/ML play a growing role in many of these applications. You will leverage your proficiency in statistics and data science technical areas, with opportunities to draw upon and extend methods from spatial statistics, time series, machine learning, reliability, design of experiments, computer experiments, Bayesian methods, functional data analysis, stochastic processes, hierarchical models, uncertainty quantification, data fusion, graphical models, advanced regression techniques, and statistical computing, to develop and execute strategies that answer important questions, create valuable and actionable results, and contribute directly to advancing science and supporting the national security mission. This position will be filled at either the Scientist 2 or Scientist 3 level, depending on the skills of the selected candidate. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if the candidate is hired at the higher level. **Scientist 2 $104,100 - $172,200** A successful candidate will actively participate in collaborative projects and research activities in a broad c