R&D S&E Systems Engineer - Physical Security Systems, Onsite

About Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting‑edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co‑workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten‑hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part‑time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance.
  * These benefits vary by job classification.

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We need your help in exploring and developing innovative concepts and new technologies to meet challenging and diverse national security needs spanning across physical security and asset surety systems, robotics, unmanned aerial systems, and transportation systems.

We are seeking a motivated Research & Development Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team. We currently have several roles available in the department spanning multiple technical areas of expertise listed in the description below.

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

• Build system or sub‑system test plans that are traced to requirements for system testing.
• Research, develop, analyze, and test advanced and innovative sensor technologies, power electronics, embedded systems, and hardware and software for communications.
• Design test custom electronic circuits and assemblies and/or firmware/software.
• Implement the requirements through design definition activities, such as design reports, engineering drawings, and specifications.
• Implement test plans either in laboratory, test field, or implementation site.
• Complete activities related to system level design, engineering, and testing.
• Design, conduct and document tests, experiments, and results to evaluate sensor technologies/system performance.
• Apply systematic scientific methods to evaluate commercial technologies to determine their ability to meet sponsor performance requirements.
• Present at technical design reviews.
• Interact regularly with internal and external partners from a variety of technical and professional areas.
• Represent Sandia on multi‑organizational project teams.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Due to the nature of work, the 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.
• Active DOE Q security clearance or equivalent.

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

• Graduate degree in Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, 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…