R&D S&E, Mechanical 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.

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:

$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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you passionate about mechanical engineering and dream of utilizing state-of-the-art facilities to explore solutions? Do you want to join a dynamic team and apply your technical skills towards challenges with impact to national security? If so, you are one of the R&D Mechanical Design Engineers we seek.

As part of the surety mechanisms group, you’ll help craft unique solutions for the development and design support of mechanism components---components that play a critical role in assuring the safety and security of our nation’s nuclear deterrent in a wide range of scenarios. In this role, you’ll collaborate with engineering and research teams across the broader Nuclear Security Enterprise to produce, and assess these mechanically intricate components in assemblies consisting of over 100 custom-designed and built piece parts.

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

• Utilize your expertise in mechanical engineering to field high-integrity products, meeting both technical and programmatic requirements
• Employ analytical thinking to work through ambiguous problems with a multi-disciplinary team
• Develop innovative design concepts through requirements negotiation, trade studies, and virtual prototyping
• Advance component designs to a qualification-ready state through detailed definition development, modeling/analysis, and iterative design-build-test cycles
• Mature designs to a production-ready state through specification development and collaboration with the production agency
• Investigate and resolve anomalies through analysis and testing
• Present your work to peers, customers, and management in formal and informal settings
• This position will offer you substantial opportunity for training, technical mentorship, and work across multiple nuclear deterrence programs. Some travel is required.

Qualifications We Require:

• Master’s or PhD in mechanical engineering or a related discipline; or Bachelor’s in a STEM discipline plus 4 years’ experience
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoE Q security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Experience in the design, development, and production of mechanical products
• Working knowledge of manufacturing processes used for precision metal parts
• Basic proficiency with computer aided design/drafting
• Experience with mechanical modeling/analysis approaches and tools (e.g., commercial FEA software)
• Familiarity with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing and tolerance analysis
• Familiarity with materials characterization techniques
• Proven ability to interact well with diverse teams
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to prepare clearly-written reports and deliver well-articulated briefings
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with diverse teams and across differing communication styles
• Genuine technical curiosity, and an interest and aptitude for learning more
• Strong commitment to quality, safety, collaboration, and teamwork
• Active DoE Q security clearance

About Our Team:

We are a mechanical engineering group responsible for the full life cycle of mechanism components for Nuclear Weapon (NW) applications. Mechanisms for which we have design responsibility include unique signal strong links, environmental sensing devices, and weapon release detection switches. We have a diverse team with wide ranges of skills and experience, and we value critical thinking skills and good mechanical insight.

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: 686579