What Your Job Will Be LikeOrganization 05443, Navigation Warfare, is actively seeking a Navigation Warfare Engineer who has significant interest in estimation, software engineering, GNSS, and applied R&D for national security missions to join our team!
The successful candidate will have R&D experience in software engineering and/or stochastic estimation for dynamic systems, and interest in developing, testing, and analyzing prototype hardware systems for future alternative PNT systems, navigation algorithms, and navigation warfare threats.
Navigation Warfare supports a large range of Technical Readiness Levels (TRLs) to apply innovative conceptual ideas to both near-term and future warfighter needs.
On any given day, one may be called upon to:
- Develop, integrate, test, and analyze results from hardware prototype navigation systems, including GNSS, Inertial sensor, and alternative PNT solutions (such as RF signal of opportunity systems)
- Develop novel alternative positioning sensors, navigation solutions, and anomaly detection algorithms for contested navigation application for complex national security mission spaces
- Collaborate with a team of researchers, engineers, and technologists to develop innovative, integrated navigation technologies and to mature them from concept to simulation to flight tests
- Transition alternative PNT technologies, sensors, and software from Modeling and Simulation to hardware prototype for flight test experimentation
- Perform testing in complex contested navigation warfare environments in the field, and analyze results to draw meaningful conclusions in support of national security missions
This position will include simulation, laboratory, and field-testing operations.
Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite at Sandia laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, including the Flight Dynamics Laboratory. Some travel is required for this position.
Salary Range$102,400 - $199,700
*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.
Qualifications We Require- Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance
Qualifications We DesireThe ideal R&D Electrical Engineering candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:
- Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
- Ability to work independently and collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team of designers and test engineers.
- Outstanding verbal and written skills, including the ability to develop and present briefings that are clear and compelling.
Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:
- Coursework and/or 1+ years of experience with modern navigation sensors & hardware -- such as GNSS receivers, IMUs, terrain-aiding SAR, and RF components -- to include familiarity with their principles of operation, sensing modalities, internal processes, and interfaces
- Coursework and/or 1+ years of experience with navigation-related algorithms and techniques, such as Kalman Filtering, sensor fusion, signals of opportunity, sensor/system integrity monitoring, and threat mitigation
- Experience programming in object-oriented and scripting tools/languages (e.g. Python, C++, Matlab)
- Experience with industry GNSS simulation hardware (e.g. Spirent or Broadsim), RF recording equipment, or hardware testing of navigation systems
- Demonstrated ability to design and parameterize an experiment or test to answer specific questions about a system or phenomenon
- Demonstrated ability to analyze data captured during an experiment and draw well-reasoned conclusions based on engineering/scientific principles and knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to conduct guided research and development in a self-directed fashion
- Experience conducting operations in remote field environments with limited resources, infrastructure, and supervision
- An active DOE Q-level security clearance; or other equivalent active security clearance such as DOD Top Secret
- An active SCI-level Clearance, or a willingness to apply for an SCI-level clearance
About Our TeamThe Navigation Warfare (Navwar) Department (5443) seeks to develop technology for robust and resilient navigation in increasingly challenging operational environments. Through Navigation Warfare Assessments to characterize and respond to US navigation contestation, engagement with the national Navwar community, and R&D towards the development of GPS-denied and contested technologies such as Alt-PNT (Position, Navigation, and Timing), the Navwar department creates enduring capabilities to support warfighter needs in increasingly contested navigation engagements.
Posting DurationThis posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
