What Your Job Will Be LikeWe are seeking highly motivated electrical engineer to join our dynamic team. Our organization is a research and development team responsible for embedded electronics, electrical and RF technologies from design to production for a wide variety of Transportation Safety and Security Programs (TSSP). The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in electronics or electrical engineering principles, design, development, prototyping, and implementation. He or she will be a part of team that designs, builds, tests, integrates in a challenging fast-paced environment. These roles offer exciting opportunities to work on innovative projects and contribute to cutting-edge technologies.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Assist in the design, development, and testing of electronic circuits, custom PCBAs, and integrated systems under the guidance of senior engineers.
- Support the creation and review of schematics, layouts, programming and design documentation to ensure accuracy and compliance with requirements.
- Participate in hardware testing activities including functional verification, signal integrity checks, environmental testing, and necessary software code.
- Help implement design for test (DFT) and design for manufacturability (DFM) principles to improve design quality.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support hardware-software integration and system optimization.
- Assist in troubleshooting and resolving manufacturing and product performance issues.
- Learn and apply failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analysis techniques to identify potential design risks.
- Stay updated on emerging technologies in electronics and electrical systems through training and research.
- Contribute technical support to project teams working on transportation and other advanced technology initiatives.
Due to the nature of the work the selected applicant must 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- 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 a DOE Q clearance.
Qualifications We DesireThe ideal R&D S&E Electrical Engineering candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:
- Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science/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 and collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team of design 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:
- Foundational knowledge and some hands-on experience in electronic hardware design and testing, including PCB schematic capture and layout for embedded systems and microcontrollers.
- Familiarity with common communication protocols such as CAN, SPI, I2C etc.
- Experience or coursework using industry-standard PCB design and simulation tools (e.g, Siemens Xpedition or similar).
- Basic understanding of requirements development, mapping, and electrical system validation and testing methods.
- Awareness of design for manufacturability (DFM), design for test (DFT), and failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) concepts.
- Ability to assist in troubleshooting electronic systems and contribute to improving performance and reliability.
- General knowledge of regulatory standards and quality systems, with some exposure to supporting documentation and compliance activities (e.g., UL, CE, FCC, or other relevant standards) preferred.
- Programming skills in C/C++/C#, Python and other relevant software for hardware-software integration and testing automation.
About Our TeamThe Communications and Electrical Systems Technology Department is responsible for the development and integration of command, control, and communication technologies used in specialized transportation security systems. The department conducts research and development activities in the areas of high consequence software systems, custom embedded circuit design, wireless network communications, intelligent power conditioning and distribution, navigation systems, and sensors. Major programs supported by the department include the Safeguards Transporter (SGT), development of a new high security system called the Mobile Guardian Transporter (MGT) an advanced concept surety programs called Integrated Surety Architectures (ISA). Robust security protection for transportation systems face many unique challenges, and requires exhaustive investigation and analysis of sophisticated system attacks and the associated development of countermeasures to defend and protect against such attacks. The use of modeling and simulation tools assists in the investigation, exploration, and development of new design approaches, algorithms, and design of experiments to validate system capabilities.
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.
