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Johns Hopkins APL is also a good option. Closer to a large cities than many of the Labs with the same type of work and benefits. Also lots of opportunity for su
by adamsmith143 4y ago
Johns Hopkins APL is also a good option. Closer to a large cities than many of the Labs with the same type of work and benefits. Also lots of opportunity for subsidized graduate degrees from JHU if interested. Similar things to say about MIT Lincoln Lab or CMU Software Engineering Institute.
All of the Labs or these DoD Research centers typically require Security Clearances so that means you need to be a US Citizen and have a squeaky clean background and it also precludes things like using Cannabis.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> All of the Labs or these DoD Research centers typically require Security Clearances so that means you need to be a US Citizen and have a squeaky clean background and it also precludes things like using Cannabis. I’m pretty sure LBNL doesn't require a security clearance (both from it being a DOE non-weapons lab, and because I knew someone who worked there who almost certainly could not have gotten a security clearance.) On the other hand, federal (including contractors, like the labs) workplace policy on drug use reflects federal law, even where states have removed their own laws against certain drugs, and even where, as is the case with some cannabis use, federal law enforcement policy withholds enforcement where states have decriminalized. (Also, the labs are mostly major-university-run and so have policies reflecting mandatory policies for federally-funded universities on drug and alcohol use.)
- adamsmith143 4y agoInteresting, wasn't aware LBNL had different requirements.