Sandia National Laboratories
At Sandia Labs, national security is our business and our passion. For more than 75 years we have delivered essential science, technology, and engineering to solve the nation’s most challenging security issues. Working at Sandia means serving the country and contributing to a safer world, and that’s something we’re proud of.
Our workforce is our greatest strength where our employees drive innovation and foster an environment where employees feel accepted and supported. Sandia is a place where women build successful careers in dozens of fields, from accounting to project management to physics and make up 33 percent of our 16,800-strong workforce and 24 percent of management.
We promote health and well-being through paid family leave, onsite healthcare and fitness centers, nursing mothers’ rooms, and adoption benefits. We fully support our staff with flexible work schedules like our 9/80 or 4/10 workweeks, part-time options, and telecommuting opportunities. Career-building is supported through tuition assistance, mentoring, and leadership coaching and development.
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For a young girl who was fascinated by airplanes and space flight, carried a notebook of science facts and took apart her father’s watch just to see how it worked, curiosity has always been a driving force for Laura McGill.
This led her to a fulfilling engineering career with waypoints at the Boeing-funded University of Washington Aeronautical Laboratory, General Dynamics, Hughes, Raytheon, and now, Sandia National Laboratories.
Laura, Sandia’s Deputy Labs Director for Nuclear Deterrence and Chief Technology Officer, likes to say, “Engineers translate the promise of technology into products and capabilities that make life better and safer. It’s the work of engineers that advance the human condition.”
Everyone at Sandia contributes to our purpose.
Our unique responsibilities in the nuclear weapons (NW) program create a foundation from which we leverage capabilities, enabling us to solve complex national security problems.
As a multidisciplinary national laboratory and federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), Sandia accomplishes tasks that are integral to the mission and operation of our sponsoring agencies by
- anticipating and resolving emerging national security challenges
- innovating and discovering new technologies to strengthen the nation’s technological superiority
- creating value through products and services that solve important national security challenges
- informing the national debate where technology policy is critical to preserving security and freedom throughout our world
As an FFRDC for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), we have a long-term relationship with our sponsor. This creates an environment that supports our fields of expertise, enables us to maintain our objectivity and independence, and allows us to be familiar with our sponsor’s mission. We bring the FFRDC culture to all our federal sponsors to provide long-term support, solutions to existing problems and emerging threats, and quick-response capabilities. As an objective, independent, and trusted advisor, we draw from our deep science and engineering experience to anticipate, innovate, create, and inform the policy debate for decision makers.
