Cleared Senior​/Principal R&D Technologist - Environmental Testing

Cleared Senior/Principal R&D Technologist - Environmental Testing

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://www.sandia.gov

* These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

The Environmental Test Laboratory (ETL) team at Sandia
¿ s Livermore, CA site is seeking an experienced Laboratory Support Technologist to support high-consequence mechanical and environmental testing. ETL enables engineers to qualify and certify that critical national security components and systems can withstand life-cycle environments including shock, vibration, resonance, time-varying acceleration, temperature extremes, pressure, humidity, and other complex or combined exposures.

Many tests involve energetic materials, radiation sources, or other significant hazards, requiring strict adherence to safety, security, configuration control, documentation, and operational protocols. This role requires disciplined execution of test procedures, careful test article handling, strong hazard awareness, and effective communication with engineering partners. Personnel performing Activity Level Work in ETL facilities must complete required training, such as chemical safety, hazardous waste and environmental management, radiological worker training, and vault-type room security.

Test acceptance includes participation in formal Pre-Work Reviews and Test Readiness Reviews to confirm hazards, security requirements, mitigations, and procedural controls are appropriately addressed.

ETL works closely with design and systems engineers supporting the development, qualification, and sustainment of the nation
¿ s nuclear deterrent. The team values professional integrity, continuous learning, a questioning attitude, and continuous improvement in safety, security, and test quality.

ETL facilities include large-capacity electrodynamic shakers, temperature and altitude chambers, shock testers, a drop shock tower, centrifuges, modal analysis equipment with multi-channel laser vibrometry, and a state-of-the-art inertial properties measurement laboratory.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite 100% of the time.

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

Salary Range:

$88,900 - $171,900

* 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:

High School Diploma plus twelve (12) years of verifiable and directly applicable experience in laboratory instrumentation, data acquisition/control, and test execution per the job profile.

Active DOE Q-level security clearance or equivalent DoD Top Secret…