Senior R&D Electronics Engineer — Telemetry & PCB Design

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; Livermore (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 281,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories’ Telemetry (TM) team is seeking an R&D S&E Electronics Engineer to design, test, and qualify PWBs/PCBs for telemetry products within the ND portfolio. You will design schematics, run tests, and coordinate with mechanical and firmware teams to deliver integrated systems.

The role requires traveling up to 25% and onsite work at the Livermore, CA facility. A DOE Q-level security clearance is required or equivalent DoD clearance, with opportunity to interact with

Qualifications

• 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.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q-level security clearance, or equivalent DoD clearance.
• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Demonstrated experience with analog and digital circuit design and analysis.
• Hands-on experience testing and de-bugging circuitry, with mastery of oscilloscopes, logic/network/spectrum analyzers, function/pulse generators, etc.
• Proven experience with design and analysis tools (e.g., Matlab and LabVIEW), analog simulation codes (e.g., LTSpice), and HDL simulation codes (e.g.,ModelSim).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Design schematics, optimize layouts, and work with ECAD to finalize designs
• Present designs at schematic reviews and peer reviews
• Write test plans or test reports
• Conduct modeling and simulations to validate your designs
• Contribute to electrical interface requirements development with systems teams
• Coordinate design efforts with the mechanical and firmware teams
• Support mechanical and environmental testing and troubleshoot in the lab as issues arise
• Participate in lab testing of individual printed wiring assemblies or completed Telemetry systems
• Manage procurement processes with vendors to bring your designs to life

Skills

Analog design

Digital design

Circuit testing

Matlab

LabVIEW

LTSpice

ModelSim

HDL simulation

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

DOE Q-level security clearance

Tools

Mentor Graphics EDA

Altium Designer

HyperLynx Power & Signal Integrity

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories’ Telemetry (TM) team is seeking an R&D S&E Electronics Engineer to design, test, and qualify PWBs/PCBs for telemetry products within the ND portfolio. You will design schematics, run tests, and coordinate with mechanical and firmware teams to deliver integrated systems.

The role requires traveling up to 25% and onsite work at the Livermore, CA facility. A DOE Q-level security clearance is required or equivalent DoD clearance, with opportunity to interact with