What Your Job Will Be LikeOur team is seeking a highly motivated Research and Development Systems Engineer. You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary staff and team to include software engineers, electronic engineers, and Microwave Engineers. As part of Sandia's Electronic Warfare initiatives, you will work closely with managers, other project leads/engineers, teams and customer to help with planning, requirements, integration and communications. At any given time, you may be asked to help update development backlogs, plan for upcoming releases, support strategic initiatives and work to coordinate and integrate tasks across a team to meet project deliverables.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Employ an agile engineering approach that supports the integration and testing of Electronic Warfare (EW) Systems
- Support the representation of the EW Systems with customer organizations and operational organizations.
- Track and document development progress for the EW System Development.
- Coordinate with project leads and technical staff in the activities needed to develop, test, and deploy EW systems.
- Integrate and coordinate with external stakeholders for the testing and operations of EW systems
- Lead a multi-disciplinary team of technical staff in the development and deployment of EW test assets, deployment systems, and validation and verification of RF Systems
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
- Active DOE Q security clearance or equivalent (e.g. DOW Top Secret) and the ability to obtain a SCI-level clearance, which may require a polygraph test
Qualifications We DesireThe ideal R&D S&E Systems Engineer candidate will in addition possess the following:
- Graduate degree in Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
- Experience working with Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) laboratories and plants including Pantex, Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), Lawrence Livermore
- National Laboratory (LLNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Kansas City National Security Campus/New Mexico Operations (KCNSC/NMO).
- Experience working on engineering design, qualification, production, or related modeling/simulation projects.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
Also for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:
- Experience performing leadership, technical project management or system engineering activities in either traditional approaches or agile Experience on government projects and/or military operations
- Experience with the IC, DoD, or Special Operations Community
- Ability to brief and coordinate customers and stakeholders
- Ability to provide and author recommendations for planning, procedures and key metrics for large projects
- Ability to update documentation of key deliverables to include briefing material, test procedures, or concepts of operations.
- Experience with Reverse Engineering of Software and Hardware RF and Electronic Systems
- Experience with Electronic Warfare systems and tactical aircraft systems, Intelligence Community, and Special Operations Community
- Experience with leading software teams and associated technologies
About Our TeamThe RF & Systems Electronics Center (Center 05300) provides key electronics systems work to a wide variety of nuclear weapons, space, intelligence, and military programs across Sandia and the Nation. The Advanced RF Systems group (05330) supports the Nation's technology superiority strategies by delivering capabilities for RF & spectral dominance, global highly reliable communications, and novel advancements for future strength. We are a highly dynamic set of departments that cross-team to provide integrated engineering systems solutions ranging from core research through prototype development and high-end, fielded products.
The Advanced Systems department (05334) develops multi-domain novel electromagnetic attack concepts and systems with an eye on low size, weight, and power constrained applications. Our customers include a variety of government organizations including the U.S Armed Forces, the Intelligence Community, and special operations Community. Our staff members have a diverse skills base including microwave circuit design, antenna design, signal analysis, digital signal processing, embedded software, and system designs comprised of the latest associated hardware. We partner across the laboratory and the group to bring on other critical skill sets to our multi-disciplinary team to include computer scientists, systems engineers, and cyber engineers. Our design challenges include system development (designing scalable systems, systems integration into host platforms, etc), understanding complex adversary systems and associated vulnerabilities, and signal analysis and generation of RF low probably of detect waveforms.
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.
Essential FunctionsIf offered the position, you may be required to demonstrate your fitness to perform certain physical aspects of the position, including lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling.
