Senior R&D Systems Engineer — Surety & V&V Onsite

Sandia National Laboratories; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 102,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Relocation assistance

Generous vacation and medical benefits

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque is seeking a cleared Senior/Principal RD Systems Engineer to join the Systems Surety Groups (2910 & 2920) and lead R&D projects ensuring robust product qualification and timely delivery onsite.

You will collaborate across multidisciplinary teams on nuclear and non-nuclear systems, performing requirements traceability, risk analysis, and V&V planning to drive defect prevention and maintain safety and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five years of directly relevant experience.
• Active DOE Q-Level security clearance required to start.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Exercises 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.
• Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant will be required to work onsite

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque is seeking a cleared Senior/Principal RD Systems Engineer to join the Systems Surety Groups (2910 & 2920) and lead R&D projects ensuring robust product qualification and timely delivery onsite.

You will collaborate across multidisciplinary teams on nuclear and non-nuclear systems, performing requirements traceability, risk analysis, and V&V planning to drive defect prevention and maintain safety and performance.