What Your Job Will Be LikeWe are seeking a R&D Electrical Engineer to support the full lifecycle of surety components; development, production, and assessment of ongoing lifetime performance. These electromechanical devices play a critical role in assuring the safety and security of the nation's nuclear deterrent in a wide range of environments including severe accident scenarios. Our traditionally mechanical organization is seeking an Electrical Engineer to help our multi-disciplinary approach to cutting-edge surety architecture designs that are being developed and tested.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Collaborate on multidisciplinary teams, providing ownership and direction for electrical designs.
- Coordinate with customers, production agencies, and stakeholders to support design, testing, development, qualification, and production activities.
- Analyze performance against requirements, build prototypes, and refine designs.
- Perform modeling and simulation of design performance using tools such as SPICE and MATLAB/Simulink.
- Communicate technical information and project status effectively to team members, customers, and management.
Travel to partner and customer locations as required (generally less than once every two months).
Applicants on this requisition may be interviewed by multiple organizations at Sandia National Laboratories.
Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.
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- A 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 clearance
Qualifications We DesireThe ideal R&D S&E Electrical Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:
- Graduate degree in Electrical 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 seeing individuals with the following experience:
- The ability to acquire and maintain qualifications for working safely with electrical hazards
- Experience working in Nuclear Deterrence mission spaces including design, development, production or surveillance
- Experience designing, modeling, and testing analog circuits
- Experience testing and debugging electrical hardware and test setups
- Attention to detail
- Technical project management or leadership experience
- An active DOE Q-level security clearance; or other equivalent active security clearance such as DOD Top Secret with CNWDI
About Our TeamThe Advanced Mechanical Design Group (7610) is responsible for electromechanical safety and security mechanisms (components) for Nuclear Deterrence (ND) applications. We perform conceptual design, full-scale engineering development, product characterization, product qualification,¿component¿production support, and ongoing surveillance. Mechanisms for which we have design responsibility include unique signal strong links, environmental sensing devices, weapon release detection switches, and future safety concepts.
Our technical backgrounds are diverse. Some of us have spent years focusing on the fine details of particular technologies and are recognized as nation-level specialists. Some of us are generalists and support multiple projects¿keeping things connected and developing new skills.
Our teams are comprised of specialists and generalists working together, and it is easy to shift between projects and technical roles over time.
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.
