R&D, Electrical Engineer (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.

Salary Range:

$98,300 - $190,100

*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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

The W87-0 Sentinel Integration program is seeking an R&D Electrical Engineer to join our multidisciplinary teams performing critical work advancing the safety, security, and reliability of our nation’s nuclear deterrents! Our teams are designing and building a suite of Joint Environmental Test Units and Joint Test Assemblies to enable W87-0 integration on the Air Force’s Sentinel missile. This is a highly collaborative work environment where successful candidates will be involved in design maturation, hardware assembly, and qualification testing. If you're looking to be part of a dynamic, hardworking team, this may be the position for you!

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Develop requirements and perform trade studies
• Collaborate with system engineers and component engineers
• Support system design activities including development and test of prototype and production hardware
• Participate in test planning to verify requirements and qualify hardware
• Direct execution of tests and data analysis
• Develop systems level understanding of collected data and support anomaly resolution
• Support ongoing system level integration testing activities and field exercises
• Develop documentation of a given design and give technical presentations to peers/manage

Qualifications We Require:

• Master’s degree in an engineering or science discipline; or Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or science discipline with at least 4 years of relevant experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience in digital or analog design
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25%
• Ability to obtain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Direct experience in one or more of the following: electrical design, modeling & simulation, or systems integration
• Experience working on engineering design, qualification, or production projects
• Experience working with DOE, NNSA, DoD, or Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
• Experience in Nuclear Deterrence or the Nuclear Security Enterprise
• Active DOE Q or DoD TS security clearance

About Our Team:

The W87-0 Sentinel System Integration team’s mission is to certify the W87-0 warhead for first flight on the Air Force’s Sentinel missile. Activities include creating a Joint Environmental Test Unit to provide environmental data from Sentinel test flights and developing Joint Test Assembly (JTA) 4b to certify the weapon system for operational use. Our diverse team of engineers and technical professionals provide expertise in multiple subject areas, including systems, electrical, mechanical, software and qualification engineering. This work is performed with an array of mission partners across a spectrum of security boundaries.

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.

Job ID: 687266