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Polymer & materials science hiring snapshot · last 8 months
31Open roles
$71–396KSalary range
6.3Roles / month
PhDTypical degree
1 to 2 monthsHow long roles stay open, typically
Open roles (31)
- Postdoctoral Appointee – Ultrafast Dynamics of MXene Materials (NST) Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee - Atomic Layer Deposition for X-ray Optics Fabrication Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee - Superconducting Qubits Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee - Computational Chemistry Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Assistant Materials Scientist — Operando Battery Characterization Lemont, IL· $94k – $147k
- Postdoctoral Appointee – Atomic Layer Deposition for Water Treatment Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Materials Science Division Director Lemont, IL· $254k – $396k
- Postdoctoral Appointee-Terahertz Cavity Antiferromagnonics Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee – Superconducting Single-Photon Devices for Quantum Information Science Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Group Leader: Catalysis Lemont, IL· $148k – $231k
- Director of the Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA) Lemont, IL· $202k – $315k
- Postdoctoral Appointee - Electrochemistry Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee – Chemical Recycling of Polymers Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee – Quantum Magnetometry for High-Energy Physics Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee - Exploratory Synthesis & Crystal Growth of Quantum Materials Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Assistant Scientist – Time-Resolved Photoemission Electron Microscopy (TR-PEEM) – (NST) Lemont, IL· $94k – $147k
- Assistant Scientist – UHV Scanning Probe Microscopy and Surface Science (NST) Lemont, IL· $94k – $147k
- Assistant Scientist (RD2)/ Scientist (RD3) – Coherent X-ray Scattering of Geochemical Interfaces Lemont, IL· $94k – $147k
- Postdoctoral Researcher – Critical Elements at Mineral-Water Interfaces Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Assistant Scientist – AI for Autonomous Synthesis and Multimodal Characterization Lemont, IL· $94k – $147k
- Assistant Scientist - Quantum Materials Lemont, IL· $94k – $147k
- Assistant Beamline Scientist - CNM-APS Hard X-Ray Nanoprobe Lemont, IL· $94k – $147k
- Postdoctoral Appointee – Materials Informatics and Autonomous Synthesis Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee - Characterizing high pressure melts using coherence and nano-beams at HPCAT Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee - Research at extremes of pressure, temperature and strain at HPCAT Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee - Bioimaging Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee-Magnon Dark-Matter quantum detection Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- PSE Autonomous Discovery Scientist Lemont, IL· $116k – $181k
- Postdoctoral Appointee – Mechanical Engineering Lemont, IL· $73k – $121k
- Postdoctoral Appointee - MSD Ultrafast Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction Microscopy and Spectroscopy for Quantum Materials Lemont, IL· $79k – $84k
- Postdoctoral Appointee - Synchrotron Studies of Crystal Defects for AI Modeling Lemont, IL· $71k – $118k
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98%On-site
2%Hybrid
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30%Need clearance
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H-1B filings for scientists and engineers
Argonne National Laboratory filed 67 H-1B labor applications for scientist and engineer roles from Jan to Dec 2025, at a median filed pay of $77K a year.
| Title filed | Filings | Median filed pay |
|---|---|---|
| Postdoctoral Appointee | 34 | $71K |
| Materials Scientist | 6 | $110K |
| Computational Scientist | 4 | $100K |
| Assistant Scientist | 3 | $90K |
| Physicist | 2 | · |
| Principal Materials Scientist | 1 | · |
By occupation: Physicists 27 · Materials scientists 19 · Chemists 11 · Chemical engineers 6. Worksites: IL 67.
From U.S. Department of Labor Labor Condition Application disclosure data, certified filings only, in chemist, materials, chemical and mechanical engineering, physics, R&D management and science faculty occupations. A filing is a record of past hiring, not a promise about any role. Pay shown needs 3 filings. Compare every employer's filings.
Posting volume · last 8 months
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50 roles posted across 8 months, averaging 6.3/month.
