Fellowships

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Sandia offers various fellowship opportunities to exceptional individuals in support of our national security mission. Our Distinguished Level Fellowships, the Jill Hruby and President Harry S. Truman Fellowships, are self-directed three-year appointments that are fully supported with state-of-the-art instruments, research mentoring, and generous salaries in support of any of our mission areas. Our Foundation Level Fellowships are generally two-year appointments which include up to half of the fellow’s time on self-directed research and are discipline specific.

Sandia provides postdoctoral fellows with professional development opportunities and prepares fellows to conduct independent, groundbreaking research. Best of all, Sandia surrounds postdoctoral fellows with a lasting community of thoughtful researchers united in their goal to make the world a better place.

Distinguished Fellowships:

• Jill Hruby Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering
• President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Science and Engineering

Foundation Fellowships:

• Barbara McClintock Fellowship in Bioscience
• Data Science Fellowship
• Gil Herrera Fellowship in Quantum Information Science
• John Von Neumann Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Computational Science
• Maxwell Fellowship

Application procedure

1. Use Sandia’s Careers tool to create a username and password.
2. Enter "fellowships" into the Keywords text field, and click Search.
3. Browse the list of fellowship opportunities.
4. Complete an online application for a specific job opening.

Detailed instructions for using Sandia’s Careers tool to apply for a position are also available.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

Sandia invites you to review the Equal Employment Opportunity posters which include EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law Poster Supplement, and Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision.

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