LCLS Science Research and Development (SRD) Division Leader

SLAC; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park invites applications for the SRD Division Leader at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). The role directs scientific priorities and delivers impact across a multi-disciplinary program, working with PhD researchers and a large, diverse team to advance X-ray science.

You will shape the scientific direction as construction of the 8 GeV superconducting linear accelerator progresses.

Job description

Position Overview:

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is an internationally preeminent science facility, operated by Stanford University at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on behalf of the Department of Energy, Office of Science. This facility provides world-leading scientific capabilities to a global user community, covering a very broad research portfolio including the direction of energy and information transformation and transport in systems relevant to microelectronics, catalysis, and quantum information science; understanding how atomist structure and dynamics influence disease and drug function; identifying design criteria for controlling density instabilities in inertial fusion energy materials; push the envelope of scientific discovery with an unprecedented X-ray laser source.

This is a pivotal and rare time at LCLS to shape the scientific direction of the facility. By Fall of 2027 we will have completed the construction of an 8 GeV superconducting linear accelerator. This accelerator represents a multibillion-dollar investment in high repetition rate X-ray laser science and technology, making LCLS a world leading X-ray source from both a peak and average brightness perspective in the wavelength range extending from 5 nm to 1 .

The SRD Division Leader will be essential to defining and delivering the scientific impact of this tremendous research opportunity.The successful candidate needs to have demonstrated insightful and forward-looking science priority setting. Additionally, we will be targeting a candidate capable of excelling in scientific community outreach and leadership and setting the R&D priorities needed to drive the scientific impact enabled by the LCLS facility.

These opportunities and responsibilities will be delivered through the leadership of the SRD Division at LCLS, involving the line management of a one-hundred-person Division dominated by PhD researchers