Cleared Senior/Principal R&D Electrical Engineer - System Integration & Environmental Testing, Onsite

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas.

About the role

Join the Stockpile Tech Basis team at Sandia National Laboratories, where your expertise will directly support the safety, reliability, and effectiveness of the United States nuclear deterrent. As a key contributor to the D5LE2 missile compatibility and Integrated Surety Architecture (ISA) programs, you will lead design, development, qualification, and sustainment activities that shape the future of nuclear systems.

• Plan, conceive, conduct, or lead design, development, and qualification activities.
• Use engineering principles to research, design, and develop testing approaches, testers, and test configurations to ensure that the design effectively meets requirements.
• Create, interpret, and update electrical schematics, environmental specifications, and system level documentation using the Sandia NW drawing and authorization system.
• Direct detailed study toward a greater knowledge and understanding of the technical basis of the system and related hardware.
• Work independently and as a team to coordinate and execute large scale electrical integration testing and environmental testing.
• Support multiple departments and programs within the Stockpile Tech Basis team by filling gaps as needed to ensure comprehensive coverage of electrical engineering tasks across the W76 program and related efforts.
• Define, develop, and lead environmental testing and qualification activities to ensure system compliance with rigorous environmental specifications.
• Collaborate closely with component-level designers by interpreting detailed circuit designs and analyses to effectively integrate and support system-level engineering efforts.
• Interface with the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Department of Defense, Los Alamos National Laboratory, DoD contractors, the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), and Pantex on various topics including design, testing approaches, requirements, and test facility planning.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant will be required to work onsite full-time in Albuquerque, NM. Some travel to locations (up to 25%) including, but not limited to Livermore CA, Los Alamos, NM, Amarillo, TX, Washington, DC and Kansas City, MO is required for this position.

Requirements

• 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 clearance or equivalent with the ability to participate as requested in random polygraph testing.

Qualifications

The ideal R&D Electrical Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Ability to work independently and collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team of designers and test engineers.
• Outstanding verbal and written skills, including the ability to develop and present briefings that are clear and compelling.
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to effectively guide and collaborate with teams.
• Self-motivated and positive, thriving in dynamic, fast-paced, and evolving environments.
• Adaptable and collaborative, willing to work across multiple departments and programs to address evolving technical challenges.
• Experience preparing and delivering presentations to customers and management at various levels.
• Experience with product development, qualification, testing and evaluation, as well as modeling and simulation.
• Experience defining, developing, and leading environmental testing and qualification activities in accordance with relevant specifications.
• Demonstrated proficiency with testers, test configurations, and test development within electrical engineering.
• Expertise in circuit design and analysis, including component-level understanding to support system-level engineering tasks.
• Knowledge of Nuclear Weapon Systems.

About the team

The Stockpile Tech Basis organization delivers agile solutions to the nuclear deterrent through our system engineering expertise and our hardware lifetime management team. Through our system engineering, we can shape a program to address near term needs for the nation and lead that program from development to qualification, through operational capability. We collaborate with diverse organizations throughout the labs to deliver the needed capability. Our hardware lifetime management team provides full lifetime support for hardware needs for system level development and qualification activities from early identification of needs, provisioning, kitting, assembly of test assets, and final disposition of the hardware. This full lifetime management enables the engineers to execute high fidelity experiments to validate designs.

Pay

Salary range is estimated at $117,500 - $235,700. Actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Benefits

• Challenging work with impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance

Benefits vary by job classification.