R&D S&E, Embedded Engineer

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:

Are you passionate about your work and dream of utilizing state-of-the-art facilities to explore solutions? Would you like to join a dynamic team that solves significant issues to improve our nation's security? If so, we encourage you to explore this exciting opportunity within Sandia National Laboratories.

The Trusted & Secure Systems department (05327) is seeking a motivated and innovative embedded engineer to join our team working on large scale multi-disciplinary designs targeting command and control, radar, GPS-Denied technologies, navigation, communications, and data processing for scientific and national defense applications. As a successful candidate, you will be responsible for contributing as part of a team to develop complex solutions to challenging national problems. Having a desire to learn and develop your own skills will be crucial and beneficial as you join a fun and motivated team to accomplish missions relevant to Sandia and to our nation.

You will work alongside world-class authorities and emerging leaders and use your skills in the following areas:

• Architecting, implementing, and deploying embedded systems
• Design, development, integrate, and test terrestrial, avionic, and space based HW/SW systems
• Large scale development of robotic/radar/navigational systems and architectures
• Algorithm development, real-time implementation, validation, and performance quantification.

Qualifications We Require:

• You possess a Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechatronics/Robotics Engineering;
• OR a bachelor's degree as stated above plus three years of experience in lieu of an advanced degree.
• Ability to acquire and maintain a DOE Q - level security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

Ideally, we would like to see your background include significant experience with some of the following (candidates are not expected to have all these desired qualifications):

• You have an advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechatronics/Robotics Engineering;
• You possess embedded software and/or firmware development skills (C++, Python, VHDL, Verilog, PIC, STM, Xilinx, etc.)
• Demonstrated capability or interest in understanding mathematical methods for estimation theory, embedded systems, and hardware architectures
• Experience with system level electrical design
• Experience with designing, implementing, and integrating multifaceted robotic and embedded systems
• Proven ability to work with and across multiple engineering disciplines
• Demonstrated real-time operations with field-test or live demonstrations of complex systems
• Desire to merge and implement all areas of engineering for program success
• Experience with Linux or embedded operating systems
• Experience in low-level device driver development and interfacing with hardware
• Versed with industry standard software practices such as CI/CD, version control, and linters.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, as well as work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Strong communication skills. This includes the ability to interact with team members about technical details and present program milestones and deliverables at a higher level
• Active DOE Q-level clearance.

About Our Team:

Organization 5337, The Trusted & Secure Systems department focuses on the development of secure and aware command, control, and communications functions for terrestrial, airborne, and space based systems that are critical for national security applications. Representative system components include those necessary for protection of high value assets, various point-to-point, static and dynamic C2 architectures, and situational analyses requiring compact operating systems and processing. The development and integration of resilience, confidentiality, integrity, and availability is necessary for high reliability systems critical for national security missions.

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: 687768