What Your Job Will Be LikePassionate about your work and dream of joining a dynamic team that solves challenging issues for our nation's security? Join us and unleash your potential!
We are looking for experienced data scientists/engineers with a broad set of technical skills to take on problems across including:
- Applied research across multiple mission domains
- Solving Broad Data Science Problems
- Machine Learning / Deep Learning Modeling and Algorithm Development
- Prototyping and pathfinding new concepts to solve technology challenges which mitigate risk and provide future solutions for projects
- Image and signal processing, computer vision application and research
- Uncertainty Quantification for MLDL and other algorithms in high-consequence applications
- Growth and focus in data analysis across a number of sources including remote sensing, systems testers, and microscopes
On any given day the selected candidate may be called on to:
- Be a member of a group of researchers/engineers working to solve difficult scientific problems for national security purposes
- Apply state-of-the art techniques which solve the most challenging data analysis problems for a wide array of customers.
- Work collaboratively with customers to understand requirements, available data and mission need
- Contribute to deeply rewarding missions through engagement with diverse computer science specialties and in areas such as data fusion, signal processing, analytics, cloud computing, machine learning, modeling/simulation, service oriented architectures, and in the future big-data management and visualization, plus pattern recognition
- Engage in Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Proposals.
- Engage in presenting, publishing and collaborating to advance groundbreaking research
Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.
Salary Range$117,500 - $235,700
*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 and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, 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 and SCI clearance.
Qualifications We DesireThe ideal R&D, S&E Computer Science candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:
- Graduate degree in Computer Science or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
- Demonstrated software development skills and familiarity with modern software development practices and tools (e.g., Agile).
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, and a passion to improve and expand technical skills.
Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:
- Space Domain background
- Experience with Python, C++, Java, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Linux
- Experience publishing and presenting
- Knowledge and experience with implementation of the full software development process using Agile or other Iterative methodologies
- Experience developing critical data processing and analysis systems
About Our TeamThe Perceptive Systems department specializes in the exploration, development, and analysis of emergent and disruptive technologies in computer science to solve complex problems. We bring to bear diverse expertise in mission analysis, software engineering, web services, big data management and visualization, image processing, machine learning, and modeling and simulation, which are applied to a myriad of sensor data processing challenges across the laboratory. Our research and capabilities drive innovative solutions in big data understandability, providing tools for analysis and visualization that help customers make decisions.
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.
