What Your Job Will Be Like

Are you passionate about solving complex national security challenges? Consider joining our high-performing, multidisciplinary team by leveraging state-of-the-art facilities to develop and deliver advanced mission capabilities. We seek mission-focused individuals who can identify the key technical characteristics that drive system performance and mission impact, and who are committed to rigorous design, testing, integration, and implementation. The ideal candidate values precision, technical excellence, and meaningful behind-the-scenes contributions to critical sponsor missions.

The Special Programs department is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Systems Engineer (R&D S&E, Systems Engineering) to develop high-impact and high-consequence national security capabilities improving the nation's security. Your work will have direct impact on our warfighters, increase national security, and have tangible results that will continually reinforce your commitment to the team and cultivate your creativity. The work environment is team focused with success contingent on the team working collaboratively on common goals.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Develop mission supporting tactics, techniques and procedures.
• Utilize your creativity and technical expertise to drive an idea from concept to operational capability including creation of requirements, cost estimates, schedules, project plans, development, implementation and testing.
• Lead and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams including information technology, software development and other technical disciplines to influence the development and meet project requirements
• Drive requirements and methodology for software testing and improve automated testing capabilities
• Partner with other project groups to improve and develop collaborations and capabilities which create efficiencies and guide future projects
• Analyze complex data sets, creating elegant representations of the data to evaluate system performance

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite 100% of the time at the Livermore, CA facility.

The position requires an ability to travel occasionally to support the mission.

Applicants on this requisition may be interviewed by multiple organizations at Sandia National Laboratories.

Salary Range

$139,900 - $280,600

*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 Q-level security clearance with SCI

Qualifications We Desire

The ideal R&D S&E Systems Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories 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:

• Active DOE Q or SCI level security clearance
• Background in IT systems, across multiple classifications, used by the USG
• Experience working with the DoW
• Strong leadership, delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring skills Experience with architecting IT systems and experience with data processing/analysis
• Expertise in one or more of the following areas: project management, developing requirements and concepts of operation, performing trade studies, generating technical documentation, leading system design activities, developing and testing prototype systems, overseeing operational activities creating Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), qualifying systems, assessing system reliability and performance, operationally fielding and supporting capabilities, software quality assurance or system testing
• Experience realizing products and leading teams

About Our Team

The Special Programs Organization is responsible for developing high-impact and high-consequence national security projects supporting a broad range of US government sponsors. Projects revolve around CONOPS creation, traditional Systems Engineering and development of custom software and IT architectures.

While IT architecture and software development are core capabilities, projects span multiple engineering disciplines and have durations ranging from days to years.

Special Programs¿ success comes from the team's ability to create innovative, end-to-end capabilities supporting the most demanding missions. The team works closely with our sponsors to understand their mission and develop solutions based on the sponsors¿ specific needs. Special Programs¿ unique infrastructure, operational mindset along with deep domain and technical experience creates distinct and exceptional capabilities for our sponsors and an exciting and challenging work environment.

Posting Duration

This 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.