Early Career R&D Systems Engineer -Surety Engineering, Onsite

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• 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.
• Exercise 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, integrating people, teams, products, and activities across multiple technologies.
• Author qualification plans, requirements maps, test plans, and measurement assurance plans.

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

$121,900 - $237,800

• 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.

• Graduate degree in Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., thesis or dissertation).
• Experience working with Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) laboratories and plants including Pantex, Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) and Kansas City National Security Campus/New Mexico Operations (KCNSC/NMO).
• Experience working on engineering design, qualification, production, or related modeling/simulation projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Product development or manufacturing experience.
• Designing and qualifying hardware, software, and test equipment.
• Applying risk‑based approaches to evaluate difficulty level of product qualification activities.
• Preventing, identifying, and mitigating technical product defects and risks.
• Understanding the nature of system problems and leading teams through resolution activities.
• Implementing production and/or process improvements to reduce production deficiencies while maintaining and improving performance standards.

The Surety Engineering Groups (2910 & 2920) are a center of excellence for R&D Surety Systems Engineering at Sandia National Laboratories. With multidisciplinary engineers at numerous sites, our organization provides R&D hardware and software surety and systems engineering expertise throughout the entire product realization lifecycle, and trains fellow scientists and…