Cleared Senior​/Principal R&D Systems Engineering Lead - HDBT Program, Onsite

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R&D Systems Engineering Lead - Multiple Positions Available

We are seeking highly independent, self-motivated R&D Systems Engineers to join Sandia National Laboratories Center 2200 in pivotal leadership roles supporting critical national deterrence missions. These positions offer the opportunity to support an accelerated development program within the Nuclear Security Enterprise and contribute directly to the safety, security, and reliability of the United States nuclear deterrent.

• Program Integration Lead:
  Serves to integrate programmatic and technical scope across the Systems team, specifically focused on creating a holistic effort between risk management requirements engineering, cost and schedule, and ensuring accurate and timely reporting to all program stakeholders.
• Risk Management Lead:
  Scope includes collaborating across technical teams to identify risks, issues, burndown plans, and opportunities and ensuring all data is captured in the Federal Integrated Risk Register. Also responsible for all reporting to the Federal Program Office (FPO).
• Environments Lead:
  Exercises expertise in weapon environments and DOE and military concept of operations (CONOPS) to develop system and component-level specifications that map to customer requirements (i.e., Stockpile-to-Target Sequence (STS)).
• Systems-Owned Parts Lead:
  Provides staff leadership in requirements development, qualification, and production strategy development and execution for Systems-owned piece parts.
• Qualification Test Lead:
  Leads a multi-disciplinary team in the execution of the system-level test verification strategy in close partnership with the Systems Qualification Lead and System Surety Engineer and supporting experimental test organizations.
• Testers Lead:
  Partner across organizations to develop the strategy for system tester realization and utilization.

Each role will focus on distinct technical challenges and leadership responsibilities while requiring depth in understanding of other aspects of the Program.

In these leadership roles, you may be called on to:

• Lead Complex Systems Engineering Efforts Drive the design, development, integration, and qualification of War Reserve (WR) systems or components, proactively identifying and mitigating technical risks while balancing Sandia’s need to innovate, act with urgency.
• Collaborate Across the Enterprise:
  Partner closely with diverse teams spanning Sandia, NNSA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Kansas City National Security Campus, Pantex, USAF, and other key stakeholders to address complex technical and programmatic challenges.
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