Early-Career R&D Mechanical Engineer — High-Impact Mission

Sandia Corporation; Livermore (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking an R&D Mechanical Engineer to join multidisciplinary teams delivering critical national security work. You will contribute across the full lifecycle of complex mechanical systems, from requirements and design maturation to integration, testing, qualification, production realization, and sustainment.

The role emphasizes collaboration with systems engineers, production partners, and external stakeholders, leading multidisciplinary activities and technical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with demonstrated ability in research and development.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop a detailed understanding of customer, system, subsystem, and component requirements.
• Support maturation, verification, and validation of system and mechanical design requirements.
• Define, design, analyze, review, and mature mechanical systems, subsystems, assemblies, drawings, models, and related design products.
• Provide technical consultation on critical mechanical design elements.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, component engineers, production partners, and Science & Technology experts.
• Plan, execute, and analyze experiments, modeling and simulation activities, and engineering tests.
• Represent mechanical design considerations in design reviews, programmatic meetings, and multi-organizational forums.
• Plan and execute environmental, functional, safety, qualification, development, characterization, flight, laboratory, and component testing.
• Support hardware assembly, subassembly integration, test execution, and anomaly resolution.
• Conduct technical analyses and trade studies using performance, risk, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and mission needs.
• Partner with production agencies and external organizations to support product realization, production documentation, and lifecycle sustainment.
• Maintain technical, design, production, and systems engineering documentation.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking an R&D Mechanical Engineer to join multidisciplinary teams delivering critical national security work. You will contribute across the full lifecycle of complex mechanical systems, from requirements and design maturation to integration, testing, qualification, production realization, and sustainment.

The role emphasizes collaboration with systems engineers, production partners, and external stakeholders, leading multidisciplinary activities and technical