NSA is home to one of the largest and most established in-house research organizations within the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), employing scientists with world-class skills in fields such as mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, and cybersecurity. We collaborate with leading industries, universities, and national laboratories to advance core competencies, leverage work in overlapping disciplines, and solve some of the most challenging national security problems thought to be intractable by adversaries and commercial industry. NSA's Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) attracts top technical talent who not only solve the nation's urgent intelligence problems, but also invent what hasn't been invented and concentrate on what will be needed five, ten, fifteen years down the road. Through its partnership with the University of Maryland (UMD), LPS offers a unique environment where university, industry, and federal government scientists collaborate on research in advanced communication, sensing, and computer technologies. To learn more about LPS, visit: https://www.lps.umd.edu LPS is currently seeking experienced Engineering and Physical Sciences Researchers to lead advanced research efforts in the areas of: Electromagnetics engineering that enable high-performance wireless communications; integrated photonics for High Performance Computing (HPC); and novel computing devices for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. LPS Researchers are expected to contribute to their technical fields by publishing in high-impact, peer reviewed journals; collaborating and contributing broadly with academia, industry, and the national laboratories; and supervising students and postdoctoral fellows. In addition, researchers must demonstrate an ability to work well in a team environment toward mission-oriented research goals, to provide unique and sometimes extraordinary subject matter expertise to the Intelligence Community (IC) and wider U.S. Government (USG) and bring their inventions to prototype or practical implementation. Lead Researcher: Active Devices for Beyond Moore's law/Cryologic. LPS is seeking a motivated experimentalist to lead a new research effort to discover, understand, and optimize novel devices for HPC. In the 'Beyond Moore's Law' era, the exploration of computing devices operating at very high speed, low-power, or offering greater functionality for memory and logic are critical to the development of future information technologies. LPS seeks to add to its growing number of research labs in novel classical computing devices and paradigms, which include laboratories for 2D and topological materials, superconducting reversible logic, and cryogenic interconnect for novel HPC, in addition to an entire office focused on novel architectures and system-level considerations for Advanced Computing Systems (ACS). This search is not predetermined towards a specific technology; rather, LPS seeks a researcher with skillsets and a fundamental research strategy that complements and enhances existing efforts. This new research area is expected to provide opportunities for internal Agency and external community collaboration, especially for future computing systems of relevance to the NSA. Although LPS researchers are encouraged to collaborate and pursue research funding opportunities internal to the Agency and across the USG, many LPS research projects are self-funded. This new research effort is expected to be provided with start-up funds, lab space, and materials, as well as being able to take advantage of existing beyond Moore's and cryologic labs, fabrication and measurement infrastructure. Lead Researcher: Novel Computing Devices for High Performance Computing (HPC) Applications The Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) Research Program has an immediate opening for a high energy top performing individual with outstanding technical skills to work on the development of next generation of computing systems. Responsibilities will include: Helping to perform analysis of alternative physical devices, computational machines and architectures, including from "sketch" paper analysis to detailed modeling and simulation to designing microelectronics through system level hardware where necessary. Based upon the above work, where feasible, functional demonstration software, hardware and systems may be fabricated demonstrating and characterizing the new capabilities and suitability for critical mission needs. Collaborate with ACS research colleagues, and customers to identify opportunities and approaches to apply custom logic to NSA's mission needs. Work with agency, academic, industry and national lab researchers to identify techniques, develop models, and other means to demonstrate the suitability of the custom logic identified. Working across ACS teams and with state-of-the-art microelectronics industry partners to develop, codify logic algorithms, validate designs, and collaborate with contractors to fabricate novel Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) devices. Work with both internal agency and external contractor resources to design/develop electronic test apparatus and the software to demonstrate custom ASIC devices for the effectiveness of serving mission needs. Make recommendations to the agency for technologies that offer significant benefits for production systems for specific missions. Use knowledge of mathematics, engineering, cognitive sciences and physical sciences to investigate and if needed propose systematic investigations of phenomena using experimental methods to be performed by collaborators and vendors. Based on any experimental methods performed, develop theories and laws consistent with the results of any experimental methods performed. Help guide technical development of new technologies, products, and architectures to solve mission-related problems.