R&D S&E, Cybersecurity & Software Engineering (Early/Mid-Career) Albuquerque or Colorado Springs

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.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

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.

Salary Range:

$88,600 - $172,300

*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:

We are seeking a Cybersecurity professional with software engineering experience to join our multidisciplinary team in developing solutions to critical national security challenges.

Sandia’s Space Mission Engineering Program Office (SMEPO) strives to enhance and protect the nation’s space enterprise. As the trusted resource to our government partners, we seek out the toughest challenges and respond with creativity, determination, and skill. We innovate across the spectrum of space infrastructure; from flight payloads to ground stations, from new materials to advanced algorithms to develop creative solutions to unique national security challenges!

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

• Work collaboratively with architects, developers, technical engineering leads, customers, and end users to collect requirements, design solutions, and deliver software applications
• Engage with diverse computer science specialists in areas such as data fusion, signal and image processing, analytics, cloud computing, machine learning, modeling and simulation, service-oriented architectures, data management and visualization
• Write, test, and debug C++, Python, and Java applications
• Use modern software development tools like cloud computing and containerization
• Develop and employ machine learning techniques
• Work in Windows and Linux environments
• Serve as a technical interface for customers and internal management
• Find opportunities to drive innovative solutions and create the future of space-based systems

Due to the nature of the work, you must be able to work full-time onsite in either Albuquerque, NM or Colorado Springs. CO.

Qualifications We Require:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in cyber security, computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or other relevant STEM field
• Experience with cybersecurity tools, capabilities, and practices
• Experience in Python or Java
• Ability to obtain and maintain DoE Q and SCI clearances

Qualifications We Desire:

• C++ Experience
• Design, testing, and delivery of software products
• Engineering software tools, such as MATLAB
• Using and writing applications for Linux
• Remote sensing, space, satellites, or satellite ground stations
• Testing and debugging software systems
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills to work in a team setting for a common purpose
• Interest in contributing to multidisciplinary technical teams at the system level
• Active DOE Q or SCI clearance or equivalent

About Our Team:

The Space Control Capabilities department provides software, science, and engineering solutions our nation’s toughest space situational awareness and space control problems. We research, develop, test, and deploy software to advance the state-of-the-art in remote sensing and ensure superior space capabilities for the nation.

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 and SCI access, both of which require US citizenship. SCI access may also require a polygraph examination. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain these levels of access 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 the 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: 687523