Intern, R&D Graduate Year-Round - Interns for Security, Arms Control, and ForceProtection Engineering (iSAFE), Onsite

Sandia National Laboratories; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 24,797,000 - 38,573,000; Part time

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories' iSAFE Institute is seeking outstanding undergraduates for an internship in security and force protection engineering. You will join teams designing, developing, testing, and delivering advanced data processing and exploitation software for national security missions.

Open to students across multiple engineering and science disciplines, with opportunities to contribute to experiments, analyses, and reports.

Qualifications

• You have completed a bachelor's degree and are enrolled in a science, engineering, or math graduate program.
• Minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0 required, with potential for 3.5+ for desirables.
• Ability to work up to 40 hours per week in summer and up to 30 hours during the academic year.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, test, and deliver data processing and exploitation software.
• Collaborate on tests and experiments related to national security missions.
• Contribute to reports and papers on technical topics and new tools.
• Support team in solving challenging technical problems for national security needs.

Skills

Teamwork

Detail-oriented

Self-motivated

Thorough

Education

Bachelor's degree

Graduate program enrollment

Tools

MATLAB

LabVIEW

National Instruments Veristand

Test instrumentation

Programming languages (C/C++, Java, Python)

Job description

LocationAlbuquerque, NM

Full/Part TimePart-Time

Regular/TemporaryTemporary

What Your Job Will Be Like

The Interns for Security, Arms Control, and Force Protection Engineering (iSAFE) Institute is one of the premier Intern Institutes at Sandia National Laboratories. We are seeking outstanding, energetic and passionate undergraduate students majoring in Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Explosives Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Geophysics, Materials Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, Seismology, Nuclear Engineering, Systems Engineering, a concentration in Human Factors or Organizational Behavior, or related fields of study. Our Interns will work on high-caliber, cohesive teams to support programs and projects related to the United States National Security Missions. These projects include but are not limited to, critical asset protection and security, nuclear weapons and force protection, and weapons of mass destruction nonproliferation and cooperative threat reduction, energy and homeland security, intelligence science, and reliability engineering.

• Work with your team in designing, developing, implementing, testing, and delivering advanced data processing and exploitation software
• Work with your team in designing, developing, and conducting tests and experiments related to our national security missions
• Work in a collaborative and learning environment and assume significant responsibilities for assisting in the development of first-of-a-kind software solutions and data exploitation methods to solve challenging technical problems for national security needs
• Utilize your knowledge, skills, and abilities to deliver quick and accurate solutions to complex and nationally significant problems
• Develop new skills that focus on addressing needed capabilities for our projects
• Contribute to data analysis and review in support of our national security mission projects
• Contribute to reports and papers on technical topics
• Help to identify and implement new tools and approaches to solving complex technical problems
• Collaborate with other Sandia National Laboratories Interns on shared projects

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range

At Sandia, we value the important work done by our interns and its contribution to National Security. Because of this, our interns earn competitive pay rates. Our pay structure is based on earned credit hours, classification, and degree level. Your pay rate will be determined during the hire process and included in your offer package. You can view the Intern Pay Rate chart here.

Qualifications We Require

You bring the confidence and skills to be eligible for the job by meeting these minimum requirements:

• Earned bachelor's degree
• Currently attending and enrolled full time in an accredited science, engineering, or math graduate program
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0
• Ability to work up to 30 hours per week during the academic year, and up to 40 hours per week during the summer
• U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, asylees or refugees in the U.S.

Qualifications We Desire

• Working knowledge and understanding of an engineering or science-related field as listed in the required section.
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0
• Self-motivated, hard-working, detail-oriented, and thorough
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Experience with the following: Electro-mechanical systems; Control systems; Software programming; MATLAB; LabVIEW; National Instruments Veristand; Test instrumentation and troubleshooting
• Experience with the following: Test designing, planning, execution, and documentation; Data analysis and statistical methods; Digital signal processing; Mechanical structural analysis; Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis
• Experience with modeling; SolidWorks, Pro/E, Creo, Finite Element Analysis Knowledge in programming and scripting languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, SQL
• Knowledge of tools and approaches related to human systems analysis or experimentation

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 Our Team

The Interns for Security, Arms Control, and Force Protection Engineering (iSAFE) institute provides students the opportunity to develop next-generation systems for compelling national security missions. This can include work on complex and challenging problems to lower the risk posed by high-consequence events, such a nuclear and biological proliferation, terrorist threats, catastrophic incidents, and potentially destabilizing events. Projects range from small R&D efforts to large, multidisciplinary team collaborations