Sandia National Laboratories

Senior/Principal Space Systems R&D Mechanical Engineer - Onsite

Sandia National Laboratories$138K — $235K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field with 5 years of experience, or equivalent education and engineering experience.
  • Knowledge of space system mechanical structures, components, and mechanisms.
  • Capability to collaborate effectively in modeling, hardware build, and testing environments.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Support space system modeling and component design as a subject matter expert.
  • Generate models of space mechanical components designed by others.
  • Design, build, and test space mechanical components and mechanisms.
  • Interpret results from modeling, testing, and analysis of space mechanical systems.
  • Train National Security Space customers on space capabilities.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional growth in a niche field of space systems engineering.
  • Engagement with diverse technologies shaping national security solutions.
  • Collaboration with leading experts and agencies in space exploration and national defense.
Full Job Description
What Your Job Will Be Like

We are seeking an Experienced Space Systems R&D Mechanical Engineer to fulfill the role of a subject matter expert to support space system modeling, space system component design and build, space system component testing and analysis, and to interpret results from modeling, testing and analysis of space mechanical systems. These efforts are to help inform and train National Security Space customers and provide space capabilities to National Security Space customers.

On any given day, you may be called on to:
  • Provide an understanding of space mechanical components and sub-system design to space systems modelers
  • Generate models of space mechanical components that are designed and built by others
  • Design, build and test space mechanical components and mechanisms


Salary Range

$138,600 - $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.
  • Knowledge of space system mechanical structures, components, and mechanisms
  • Ability to work in a collaborative work environment from modeling to hardware build and testing
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI clearance


Qualifications We Desire

  • Graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering or a highly related field
  • 10 years or more of experience designing, building and/or testing of space electronics components that have then flown in space
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and execute a technical effort (eg Thesis/Dissertation, publications, work project, making space flight hardware deliveries, etc.)
  • Experience on US Space Force, NASA and/or NRO satellite system programs
  • Current TS/SCI and TS/SAR clearances
  • Knowledge of and experience with SMC-S-016


About Our Team

We provide mission analysis and modeling, architecture studies and prototype enabling technologies for pathfinding space-based solutions to national security problems. 6353's focus is on expansion and evolution of mission capabilities for the Space Mission Engineering Program. Responsibilities of 6353 are to foster research and develop solutions in the areas of Space Cyber Resilience and Space Control (SC) and nurture strategic partnerships with various government agencies, universities, and industry partners operating and supporting space missions.

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.

About Sandia National Laboratories

The Sandia National Laboratories is one of three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development laboratories in the United States, managed and operated privately by the National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia. Their primary mission is to develop, engineer, and test the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons and high technology. Headquartered on Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it also has a campus in Livermore, California, next to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a test facility in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii. It is Sandia's mission to maintain the reliability and surety of nuclear weapon systems, conduct research and development in arms control and nonproliferation technologies, and investigate methods for the disposal of the United States' nuclear weapons program's hazardous waste. Other missions include research and development in energy and environmental programs, as well as the surety of critical national infrastructures. In addition, Sandia is home to a wide variety of research including computational biology, mathematics, materials science, alternative energy, psychology, MEMS, and cognitive science initiatives. Sandia formerly hosted ASCI Red, one of the world's fastest supercomputers until its decommission in 2006, and now hosts ASCI Red Storm, originally known as Thor's Hammer. Sandia is also home to the Z Machine. The Z Machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. It is operated by Sandia National Laboratories to gather data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons. In December 2016, it was announced that National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, under the direction of Honeywell International, would take over the management of Sandia National Laboratories starting on May 1, 2017. Educational opportunities are conducted in collaboration with university students through several programs, including the Securing Top Academic Research & Talent at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program and the Sandia University Partnerships Network.
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