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

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

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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.

On any given day, one may be called upon to:

• 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.

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

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

Applicants chosen for an interview will be asked to provide an overview briefing of an example that illustrates relevant design experience.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range

$99,400 - $193,600

* 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, 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.
• 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…