Aerospace Engineer, Navigation Aiding IPT Lead - Onsite

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Organization 05449, Autonomy for Hypersonics, is actively seeking an Integrated Product Team (IPT) lead for Navigation Aiding who has significant interest in leading a multi-disciplinary team to execute subsystem design and testing activities including requirement formulation, algorithm development, software engineering, mod/sim, hardware/field testing, and vehicle systems integration.

The successful candidate will have project management experience in conjunction with applied R&D experience in system engineering, software engineering, and/or vehicle navigation. Interest in leading highly performant teams, mentoring early career staff, and maturing navigation technologies is highly desired. Formal graduate-level education in Electrical/Aerospace Engineering or a related engineering field is also desired.

• Lead a team of technical sub-leads across multiple disciplines and organizations to execute development and testing of Navigation Aiding subsystems, including activities such as:
• Develop and test an evolving technical solution for Navigation Aiding for integration into high consequence systems
• Support a large range of Technical Readiness Levels (TRLs) to apply innovative conceptual ideas to both near-term and future warfighter needs.
• Analyze and develop mission- and threat-informed subsystem requirements
• Document and communicate technical and programmatic outcomes to stakeholders at the national level
• Project and manage budget, schedule, and broader resources including staffing alongside line and senior management
• Oversee subsystem procurements and subsystem inventory management
• Direct test planning as well as test procedure development

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite at Sandia's laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, including the Flight Dynamics Laboratory and Navigation Warfare Laboratory. Some travel is required for this position.

$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.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline, 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.
• Plus, five years or more years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job.
• Ability to acquire and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance.

The ideal Navigation Aiding IPT Lead - R&D S&E Aerospace Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Experience integrating a complex set of hardware and software activities to design and test a flight vehicle subsystem to specified requirements.
• Experience in applied aerodynamics, flight mechanics, or trajectory simulation with application to the design, modeling, simulation, optimization, and analysis of aerospace flight systems. Of specific interest to this role are:
• Experience with the capabilities, use, and application of MATLAB®, Simulink®, Python, C/C++, or other modern programming languages and repositories in technical analysis/computing and software development.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary, fast-paced/schedule-driven environment.

• Experience in stakeholder-facing technical and programmatic communication.
• Experience developing technical reports, procedures, requirements, and test plans.
• Experience in technical communication (as demonstrated by technical publications/documentation), including the ability to develop and present briefings that are clear and compelling.
• Demonstrated record of technical and/or…