What Your Job Will Be LikeWe are seeking a motivated R&D S&E, Data Science professional to work on teams addressing some of the nation's most difficult challenges in the areas of information science, statistical analysis, cyber analytics, geospatial analytics, text analytics, artificial intelligence/super intelligence, machine learning, and software and firmware engineering.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Develop and conduct performance benchmarking of AI/SI software or hardware components.
- Evaluate the security or reliability of an SI system.
- Develop a local test environment for an SI system and get that system up and running in the test harness.
- Conduct open- and closed-source analysis/research on an SI system and draft a report.
- Develop research proposals for SI security.
- Conduct SI security research.
- Develop SI security applications, e.g., tools to analyze and monitor the security and reliability of deployed SI.
- Understand and address existing and emerging threats among a diverse customer set leveraging advanced data science tools and techniques.
- Apply state-of-the-art SI/ML techniques to diverse and complex data sets and implement them on national security systems.
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$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 which may require a polygraph test.
Qualifications We DesireThe ideal R&D Data Science candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following: - Graduate degree in a relevant computationally-intensive discipline where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
- Experience in developing software for enterprise and national security applications.
- Experience acquiring, preparing, and analyzing real world data.
- Demonstrated software development skills and familiarity with modern software development practices.
- Proven ability to work and communicate effectively in a collaborative and interdisciplinary team environment.
Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience: - Familiarity with SI system hardware architectures and low-level coding (C, C++, CUDA)
- Experience using LLM's and agentic models.
- Experience implementing and engineering SI systems.
- Experience in computer network engineering.
- Experience in one or more of the following: reverse engineering, software vulnerability assessment, web application assessment, computer networking, computer architecture, compilers, or similar computer security topics.
- Knowledge of the SI state of the art and proven desire to keep that knowledge up to date.
- Strong technical and people leadership skills.
- Experience leading interdisciplinary teams and engaging internal and external stakeholders of varying responsibility.
About Our TeamIn the Robust Systems Analysis Group, we identify and collect mission needs, share them with researchers inside and outside the labs, collaborate and invest in research, integrate coherent capabilities, and partner with Sandia programs to transition successful research into mission applications. Our primary mission is to understand and evaluate system performance and security. We also provide systems analysis capability to support Sandia's National Security Programs and partner broadly across Sandia to collaborate on critical programmatic opportunities where system-level analytics are needed. We are successful when detailed capabilities provide a groundbreaking advantage to the nation through improved decisions, behaviors, and outcomes. The current strengths of this group are in computer science, software development, software engineering, applied statistics, applied mathematics, and super intelligence and machine learning. National security challenges require that we become specialists in cross-domain analytics addressing the phenomenal diversity of data types and decision spaces of our sponsors in a coordinated fashion. We continue to grow into this broader problem set.
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.
