Senior​/Principal Microwave & Sensor Engineer - Advanced RF Systems, Onsite

Senior/Principal Microwave & Sensor Engineer - Advanced RF Systems, Onsite

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What Your Job Will Be Like:

The Advanced RF Systems department (5365) is seeking a highly motivated RF/Microwave Engineer to join its team. This position focuses on providing specialized RF engineering expertise to aid in the development and fielding of communication and Electronic Warfare systems. You will be joining a multi‑disciplinary team focused on delivering solutions to national security challenges. The ideal candidate will possess strong teamwork skills and a background in electronics engineering (RF, analog, digital) within size, weight, and power (SWaP) of constrained systems.

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

Develop and incorporate innovative technologies including efforts to:

Negotiate technical and programmatic requirements with customers

Analyze, design, and develop communication and electronic warfare (EW) systems, subsystems, and modules

Develop and execute test and qualification plans

Deliver hardware within schedule and budgetary constraints

Troubleshoot problems and support anomaly resolution activities

Develop or mature RF technologies to enable new mission capabilities

Lead or support formal program reviews

Support customer funded advanced development needs

Provide engineering and programmatic documentation

Apply knowledge and experience to evaluate and improve work quality, performance, and alignment of results with customer expectations.

Build and maintain relationships with customers, partners and influencers including efforts to:

Interact with customers and stakeholders

Represent Sandia within the technical community

Engage with commercial or industry partners

Occasionally travel to engage partners

Work with technical teams to ensure expectations and requirements are met

Due to the nature of work, successful candidate must be able to work onsite. The position will require occasional travel. Relocation provided for those that qualify.

Salary Range:

$117,500 - $235,700

* 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.

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 acquire and maintain a DOE Q clearance and SCI clearance, which may require a polygraph.

Qualifications We Desire:

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

Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a directly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation)

Laboratory skills and knowledge of RF and digital test equipment

Knowledge of RF, Digital Communications, Electronic Warfare, and…