R&D Systems Engineer - Friing and Embedded Systems, Onsite

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
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• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

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Are you passionate about your work and want to utilize state-of-the-art facilities to explore solutions? Do you want to join a dynamic team that solves challenging issues for the nation's security? If so, you could be one of the highly motivated System Engineers we seek!

The Firing & Embedded Systems group (7620) has a portfolio that covers diverse opportunities across Sandias Nuclear Deterrence (ND) mission and various Strategic Partnership Programs (SPP) supporting work across the U.S. government. This posting for a Systems Engineering role within the W93 Firing Sets and Surveillance (7623) department. If hired, a qualified candidate will support a variety of ND components including the firing sets.

On any given day, one may be called upon to:

• Work with next-level-of-assembly and your multi-disciplinary component team to define its complete requirements set.
• Work with your component design team to derive and engineer sub-component requirements from the component-level architecture/design, and manage them
• Architect or execute a systematic approach to project execution.
• Qualify a product (populating requirements maps, writing test plans, and reviewing/analyzing test data to verify requirements are met).
• Evaluate proposed requirements/requirement-changes, for impacts, including impacts to qualification basis and verifiability.
• Lead and engage in the development of system or subsystem level requirements.
• Lead qualification of a product (lead requirements mapping, developing test plans, and reviewing/analyzing test data to verify requirements are met), including identification of Critical Performance Parameters, with support from Statistics organization, as needed.
• Supporting development of product acceptance criteria/requirements to ensure that yielded product meets design expectations, while accounting for measurement uncertainties/tolerances.

This position will require occasional travel.

Applicants on this requisition may be interviewed by multiple organizations at Sandia National Laboratories.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

$102,400 - $199,700

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance

The ideal R&D S&E Systems Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation)
• Experience working with Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) laboratories and plants including Pantex, Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Kansas City National Security Campus/New Mexico Operations (KCNSC/NMO)
• Experience working on engineering design, qualification, production, or related modeling/simulation projects
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

• Direct experience supporting Nuclear Deterrence or Strategic Partnership Projects as a Systems Engineer
• Experience with:
  • Electrical Engineering practices
  • The qualification of ND components, requirements verification, and test planning
  • Firing subsystems
  • Environmental testing and destructive testing of components, subsystems or systems. This may include experience in design, development, and procurement of fixtures
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate competing requirements to give the best system-level outcome
• Familiarity with requirements management and related software (DOORS, Team Center, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering and associated tools (e.g., Genesys, Magic Draw, sysML, etc)
• Experience coordinating with test facilities both internal and external to Sandia National Laboratories
• Competency with:
  • Programming languages for automated batch data extraction and waveform analysis
  • Statistical/data visualization software (e.g. JMP, Minitab, R Statistical Software)
• Active DOE Q-Level security clearance
• Ability to obtain and maintain Sigma 15 access

The Firing & Embedded Systems group (7620) is a recognized leader in realizing safe, secure, and reliable products. We research, design, develop, and deliver highly reliable, trusted systems and high consequence hardware and software products to serve our National Security customers today, tomorrow, and always.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.