Senior​/Principal R&D Systems Engineer - Special Programs, 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
* World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..gov

* These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you passionate about solving complex national security challenges? Consider joining our high-performing, multidisciplinary team by leveraging state-of-the-art facilities to develop and deliver advanced mission capabilities. We seek mission-focused individuals who can identify the key technical characteristics that drive system performance and mission impact, and who are committed to rigorous design, testing, integration, and implementation. The ideal candidate values precision, technical excellence, and meaningful behind-the-scenes contributions to critical sponsor missions.

The Special Programs department is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Systems Engineer (R&D S&E, Systems Engineering) to develop high-impact and high-consequence national security capabilities improving the nation
¿ s security.  Your work will have direct impact on our warfighters, increase national security, and have tangible results that will continually reinforce your commitment to the team and cultivate your creativity. The work environment is team focused with success contingent on the team working collaboratively on common goals.

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

+ Develop mission supporting tactics, techniques and procedures.

+ Utilize your creativity and technical expertise to drive an idea from concept to operational capability including creation of requirements, cost estimates, schedules, project plans, development, implementation and testing.

+ Lead and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams including information technology, software development and other technical disciplines to influence the development and meet project requirements

+ Drive requirements and methodology for software testing and improve automated testing capabilities

+ Partner with other project groups to improve and develop collaborations and capabilities which create efficiencies and guide future projects

+ Analyze complex data sets, creating elegant representations of the data to evaluate system performance

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 occasionally to support the mission.

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

Salary Range:

$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.

Qualifications We Require:

+ 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.

+ Ability to obtain and maintain a Q-level security clearance with SCI

Qualifications We Desire:

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 National Laboratory (LLNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory, 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.

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