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So, you think you can change the world?
PNNL offers exciting careers in national security
Do you have what it takes to make the world a better place? To make it safer and cleaner? Scientists and engineers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have a rich legacy in the national security mission reaching back more than 43 years. In fact, leaders have turned to PNNL to tackle the most challenging problems known to mankind. PNNL has helped make history, and you can as well.
Over the years, PNNL was relied upon to
- Test and analyze the first lunar rocks to reach earth from America's Apollo and the Soviet Union's Luna 24 space missions.
- Develop the first robotic mannequin — so humanlike it even sweats — for the U.S. Army to test protective clothing.
- Invent a holographic imaging system designed to rapidly identify hidden weapons, explosives and other contraband through clothing — even plastic, ceramic and other non-metallic weapons.
- Devise a portable, three-dimensional ultrasound medical imaging system for the U.S. Army for use in remote areas; it can diagnose injuries on the battlefield or track pregnancy progression in women on Indian Reservations and transfer that information via the Internet to a medical specialist for evaluation.
- Develop radio frequency tags the size of a grain of rice that can track and monitor everything from clothing to pharmaceutical products to computer equipment.
Sound exciting?
PNNL is looking for the committed, best and brightest in:
- Acoustics.
- Advanced material forensics.
- Bioanalytical chemistry.
- Bioassay and reagent development .
- Biodetection systems.
- Electromagnetics.
- Forensic science.
- Mass spectrometry.
- Materials science.
- Molecular biology.
- Nondestructive evaluation.
- Nondestructive interrogation.
- Nonproliferation science and policy.
- Nuclear materials and fuel cycle experts.
- Nuclear physics and engineering.
- Optics.
- Radio frequency technology and engineering.
- Sensor systems.
- Separation science.
- Software engineering.
- Structural diagnostics and prognostics.