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Please list the DOE list of professional careers for 2024.
Executive summary
The Department of Energy (DOE) does not publish a single “DOE list of professional careers for 2024” in the materials returned by the provided search results; instead, available DOE pages in these results focus on grant programs (not a careers list) such as the Office of Science Early Career Research Program and related Distinguished Early Career awards that fund researchers across named scientific program offices (e.g., ASCR, BER, BES, FES, HEP, IP, NP) [1] [2]. Available sources do mention DOE career and job portals that broadly advertise roles (scientists, procurement, policy, etc.) but do not present a consolidated 2024 profession list in the documents provided [3] [1].
1. What the query seems to be asking — and what the sources actually cover
The user asked for a “DOE list of professional careers for 2024.” The items in the search results do not include a single DOE-branded 2024 careers list. Instead, the retrieved DOE content centers on funding opportunities for early-career scientists (the Early Career Research Program and Distinguished Early Career Program) and general DOE jobs pages that describe the kinds of roles DOE advertises (scientists, procurement, policy experts, fellows) rather than a definitive list of professional careers for 2024 [1] [3] [4].
2. Early Career Research Program — the clearest programmatic “career” signal
The DOE Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program awards annual grants to early-career scientists and specifies the Office of Science program offices where applicants may apply: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), High Energy Physics (HEP), Nuclear Physics (NP), Accelerator R&D and Production, and Isotope R&D and Production (IP) [2] [1]. The FY2024 FOA and associated pages show active solicitations, webinars, and award announcements for 2024 research careers funding [5] [6].
3. What these programs imply about DOE “professional careers”
The Early Career and Distinguished Early Career programs illustrate that DOE’s workforce emphasis — at least in these documents — is on scientific research careers across specific domains (computing, biological/environmental science, materials/basic energy, fusion, particle and nuclear physics, isotope production, accelerator R&D) and on nurturing early-career faculty and national-lab scientists [2] [1] [4]. That suggests the DOE’s professional roles of note in 2024, according to these program pages, center on research scientists, principal investigators, and laboratory researchers in the named disciplines [2] [7].
4. DOE jobs page and broader role categories
DOE’s jobs and technology transitions pages advertise a wider range of positions — “procurement expert, scientist, or policy wonk,” fellows, and opportunities across labs and programs — indicating the Department hires for technical, policy, procurement, and program-management roles; however, these pages provide examples and pathways rather than a canonical 2024 career checklist [3]. The DOE site therefore functions as a job portal rather than a single enumerated careers list [3].
5. Local lab announcements echo DOE priorities but are not a central careers list
National labs’ press releases (Argonne, PNNL) announce recipients of 2024 Early Career awards and the funding amounts ($550,000/year for five years, in Argonne’s reporting), reinforcing DOE’s 2024 emphasis on funding early-stage research careers, but these items are award announcements, not career catalogs [7] [8]. They show the practical allocation of career-focused funding [7].
6. Limitations, gaps, and alternative avenues to get the requested list
Available sources do not present a single, consolidated “DOE list of professional careers for 2024.” If you want a formal list of DOE job categories for 2024, the DOE jobs page or USAJobs listings would be the appropriate primary sources; those are only partially reflected here [3]. For an authoritative careers taxonomy (titles, GS levels, occupational series), consult DOE human resources pages or USAJobs postings directly — not found in the current reporting provided (not found in current reporting).
7. Practical next steps I can take for you
If you want, I can:
- Pull together titles and occupational categories from DOE’s jobs portal and recent lab hiring pages (requires additional source retrieval beyond the provided set) [3]; or
- Compile the research program offices and disciplines that DOE explicitly funds for early-career scientists in 2024 into a concise list (drawn from Early Career Program pages) [2] [1]. Tell me which option you prefer.
Sources cited above: DOE Early Career and related pages, DOE jobs page, and lab announcements as indexed in the supplied search results [2] [6] [5] [1] [7] [3] [8].