Early Career Data Science - ND Data Analytics Team, Onsite - Sandia National Laboratories

What Your Job Will Be Like

We are seeking an early career, enthusiastic R&D Data Science team member with a Computer Science, Software Engineering, or STEM background with programming experience to join the nuclear deterrence (ND) Data Analytics Team. In this role, you would deliver tools that enable verification, plotting and qualification outputs for the current and emerging programs to meet the national interests.

As a Data Analyst, you will be called to maintain and implement a complete toolset that:

• Verifies requirements
• Finds trends
• Answers questions about system performance

You will be part of a fast-paced and tightly integrated team who utilizes agile software engineering processes incorporating Git Lab.

As part of this diverse multidisciplinary team, you may use your skills including:

• Software engineering
• Qualification engineering
• Modeling and simulation
• Data analytics and visualization
• Data science

On a given day, you may be called to work closely with one of our senior analysts to:

• Learn how to tackle Gitlab issues that may require some software development to help maintain the existing code base
• Run, maintain, or work with a senior analyst to improve existing MATLAB code per request
• Be familiar with or have a desire to learn AGILE methodologies using Git Lab
• Work closely with our team as we collaborate with engineers on emerging systems and functional electrical testing teams
• Resolve technical and programmatic challenges in a collaborative manner

Due to the nature of work, successful candidate must be able to work onsite.

$102,400 - $199,700

• 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.

• A 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.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q level security clearance

The ideal R&D Data Science candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in a relevant computationally-intensive discipline where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Experience in developing software for enterprise and national security applications.
• Experience acquiring, preparing, and analyzing real world data.