Electrical Engineer - Analog Modeling & Simulation (Early/Mid-Career)

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

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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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you passionate about solving electrical engineering problems? Then join this diverse team that helps tackle some of the most ambitious issues facing the nation’s security!

The Electrical Surety Analysis organization, 02934, is seeking an R&D Electrical Engineer to work on analog and mixed signal electrical circuit research and development. We apply modeling and analysis to characterize sophisticated, high consequence nuclear deterrence systems. We consult customers on a range of ambitious electrical system and board level design issues to assure performance and safety goals across nuclear deterrence programs.

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

• Apply state of the art EDA tools to high impact, high visibility electrical engineering problems
• Conduct Monte Carlo simulation studies on Sandia's High Performance Computers (HPC)
• Partner with electromagnetic (EM) effects analysts to answer hybrid EM-Circuit questions
• Support the maturation of futuristic and innovative electrical designs for ND systems
• Develop new cutting-edge modeling and analysis techniques
• Research device and circuit technologies’ performance in extreme environments

Qualifications We Require:

• A Master's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering
• Experience in analog circuit design and modeling
• The ability to acquire and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Experience and knowledge of circuit simulation techniques
• Experience with industry leading electrical modeling and simulation tools such as Cadence/Siemens EDA tools, SPICE, HyperLynx, CST, Silvaco UTMOST, ANSYS Maxwell, COMSOL, etc.
• Experience in SI/PI, reliability and statistical analysis, and layout considerations for Electromagnetic compatibility
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language (e.g. C/C++, Matlab, Python)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

About Our Team:

The Electrical Surety Analysis Department delivers electrical circuit and electromagnetic engineering, modeling, and analysis solutions focused on meeting our customers' safety, security, and reliability goals. We specialize in analysis of sophisticated electrical system and component behavior to answer questions regarding performance, safety, sensitivity, aging, and environmental effects. Our analyses support ambitious design or production goals and enhance the technical basis of current systems, and can be used to supplement existing prototyping, redesign, or trouble-shooting processes. Benefits include improved insight into physical phenomena, optimization of difficult or expensive testing, reduced cycle time, and resolution of anomalies, leading to increased confidence in engineered products.

About Sandia:

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
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• 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 vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance:

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.

EEO:

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.

Salary Range:

$86,300 - $166,800 *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.

Job ID: 686629