Early Career R&D Electrical Engineer - Firing & Embedded Systems, Onsite

What Your Job Will Be Like

Are you passionate about Electrical Engineering and eager to utilize state-of-the-art facilities to tackle ambitious challenges related to national security? We are seeking multiple Electrical Engineers with experience in analog or digital circuit design to join our teams.

The selected applicants will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, qualifying, and monitoring firing subsystems and other high-consequence embedded systems that are used daily in U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force nuclear weapons programs, as well as other national security programs.

• Collaborate on multidisciplinary teams, providing ownership and direction for electrical designs.
• Coordinate with customers, production agencies, and stakeholders to support design, testing, development, qualification, and production activities.
• Analyze performance against requirements, build prototypes, and refine designs.
• Perform modeling and simulation of design performance using tools such as Pspice, LTspice and MATLAB/Simulink.
• Communicate technical information and project status effectively to team members, customers, and management.

Travel to partner and customer locations as required (generally less than 5 days per month).

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant 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 clearance.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Sigma 15 access.

The ideal R&D S&E Electrical Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Ability to work independently and collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team of designers and test engineers.
• Outstanding verbal and written skills, including the ability to develop and present briefings that are clear and compelling.

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

• Experience with high voltage electronics.
• The ability to acquire and maintain qualifications for working safely with high voltage electronics.
• Experience working in Nuclear Deterrence mission spaces including design, development, production, or surveillance.
• Experience working in a production or manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated attention to detail.
• An active DOE Q-level security clearance; or other equivalent active security clearance such as DOD Top Secret with CNWDI.

The Firing & Embedded Systems group (7620) is a recognized leader in realizing safe, secure, and reliable products. We research, design, develop, and deliver highly reliable, trusted systems and high consequence hardware and software products to serve our National Security customers today, tomorrow, and always.

Our technical backgrounds are diverse. Some of us have spent years focusing on the fine details of particular technologies and are recognized as nation-level specialists. Some of us are generalists and support multiple projects keeping things connected and developing new skills.

Our teams are comprised of specialists and generalists working together, and it is easy to shift between projects and technical roles over time.

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or…