Working in Clean Energy
From undergraduate interns to postdoc researchers to our most experienced scientists and engineers, ORNL’s Energy Science and Technology Directorate (ESTD) has created a vibrant, diverse, and collaborative community of people with the same core vision: to translate scientific knowledge into clean energy technologies that will improve lives.
As a member of the ESTD community, your ideas and knowledge will contribute directly to our mission of developing and deploying science and technology that creates a clean and carbon-free energy future. We encourage collaboration across disciplines to spark new ways to approach the difficult challenges we are tackling. You’ll have access to ORNL’s world-class scientific facilities that make our transformative technology breakthroughs possible.
Whether it is advances in fast wireless charging for vehicles, novel catalysts that convert carbon dioxide into ethanol, transactive controls for smart neighborhoods, or additive manufacturing of components for nuclear reactors, you can be a part of delivering these breakthroughs across the energy spectrum.