Cleared Senior​/Principal R&D Systems Engineer - W87-0​/Sentinel Integration, Onsite

Job

Location:

Livermore, CA

Full-Time | Regular

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The W87‑0 Sentinel Integration program is seeking an experienced R&D Systems Engineer with a mechanical or manufacturing background to join our multidisciplinary teams performing critical work advancing the safety, security, and reliability of our nation's nuclear deterrents!

Our teams are designing and building a suite of flight test vehicles to enable W87‑0 integration and sustainment on the Air Force's Sentinel missile. This is a highly collaborative work environment where successful candidates will be involved in design maturation, hardware assembly, qualification testing, production activities, and flight testing. Your primary responsibility will be to lead the systems mechanical design, assembly, and production teams for the W87‑0 Joint Test Assembly program.

You will also be responsible for Mechanical systems leadership over the Sentinel Integration flight test vehicle programs.

If you're looking to be part of a dynamic, hardworking team, this may be the position for you!

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Develop a detailed understanding of customer requirements and ensure maturation of requirements for specific aspects of the system and components
• Collaborate with system engineers and component engineers; provide technical guidance on critical design elements
• Define, design, analyze, and review mechanical system and subsystem assemblies, drawings, models, etc.
• Team with subject matter experts to plan, execute and analyze data from advanced experiments and modeling and simulation
• Mentor early career mechanical engineering team members
• Maintain and update production documentation
• Perform technical analyses and trade studies to inform risk‑based decisions
• Plan and execute testing for environmental, function, and safety qualification
• Integrate and test subassemblies
• Provide oversight and guidance for flight test vehicle assembly procedures, production plans, and CONOPS
• Develop systems‑level understanding of collected data and support anomaly resolution processes
• Present to diverse audiences at technical design reviews and programmatic meetings
• Represent Sandia on internal and external multi‑organizational project teams

Applicants on this requisition may be interviewed by multiple organizations at Sandia National Laboratories.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite 100% of the time at the Livermore, CA facility.

The position requires an ability to travel up to 25% to support the mission.

$139,900 - $280,600

* 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 and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, 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.
• Active DOE Q or DoD TS security clearance

The ideal R&D S&E Mechanical Engineer…