Cleared Senior/Principal R&D, S&E Systems Engineer, Onsite

Sandia National Laboratories; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 117,500 - 235,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Generous vacation

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

A premier national lab for science and engineering is seeking a highly-motivated R&D Systems Engineer in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The successful candidate will provide critical contributions throughout the product lifecycle, including requirements engineering and risk analysis, ensuring projects meet stringent security and technical requirements. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and an active DOE Q security clearance. Excellent communication skills and experience with multidisciplinary teams are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Five years of directly relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Active DOE Q security clearance or equivalent.
• Experience with Nuclear Security Enterprise laboratories.

Responsibilities

• Provide critical R&D contributions throughout the entire product realization lifecycle.
• Develop requirements traceability reports and validation plans.
• Communicate effectively across multiple roles and technology areas.

Skills

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Graduate degree in Engineering

Job description

About Sandia

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. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing 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*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov

• These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like

Are you passionate about working in a high functioning, inter‑disciplinary collaborative team in engineering? If so, join our team! We are seeking a highly‑motivated, professional R&D Systems Engineer to join the Surety Engineering Groups (2910 & 2920) to develop, implement, and maintain strategies to lead R&D project teams in successful product qualification and delivery.

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

• Provide critical R&D contributions throughout the entire product realization lifecycle, including requirements engineering and traceability, validation and verification (V&V), risk analysis, and crucial technical documentation.
• Develop requirements traceability reports, verification/validation plans, qualification plans, and essential engineering authorizations that ensure the product fully meets its requirements and design intent.
• Communicate and team effectively across multiple roles and technology areas, to include staff, team leads, and several levels of management.
• Engage in projects which span across all phases of the product realization lifecycle from conceptual design and development, through to production, maintenance, and retirement.
• Collaborate on projects that include both nuclear and non‑nuclear components, subsystems, and systems, as well as some capability development.
• Exercise critical thinking to identify, assess, and mitigate risks through the practical application of defect prevention to develop a safe, reliable, and robust product.
• Lead through position of influence rather than authority, integrate people, teams, products, and activities across multiple technologies.

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.

Qualifications We Desire

The ideal R&D 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 Laboratory (LLNL) 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.

Desired Experience

• Product development or manufacturing experience.
• Designing and qualifying hardware, software, and test equipment.
• Applying risk‑based approaches to evaluate difficulty level of product qualification activities.
• Preventing, identifying, and mitigating technical product defects and risks.
• Understanding the nature of system problems and leading teams through resolution activities.
• Implementing production and/or process improvements to reduce production deficiencies while maintaining and improving performance standards.

Authoring qualification plans, requirements maps, test plans, and measurement assurance plans.

About Our Team

The Surety Engineering Groups (2910 & 2920) are a center of excellence for research and development (R&D) Surety Systems Engineering at Sandia National Laboratories. With multidisciplinary engineers at numerous sites, our organization provides R&D hardware and software surety and systems engineering expertise throughout the entire product realization lifecycle, as well as, trains fellow scientists and engineers in defect prevention strategies and graded approaches to product qualification. We deliver strong technical solutions that increase customer confidence against loss, damage, and errors by minimizing a product’s risk through the prevention, early detection, and mitigation of defects. Our engineers play a critical role in R&D project teams responsible for realizing high‑consequence products, providing customized engineering support that ensures the appropriate qualification and testing evidence meets design requirements in a predictable, timely, and sustainable manner.

Posting Duration

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Security Clearance

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive to conduct a pre‑employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law‑enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q‑level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

Eeo

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

NNSA Requirements For MedPEDs

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug‑releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on‑site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Job ID: 697039

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F