Senior​/Principal R&D Mechanical Engineer - Environments Engineering & Integration, Onsite

Senior/Principal R&D Mechanical Engineer - Environments Engineering & Integration, Onsite

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

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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*

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What Your Job Will Be Like:

Our team is ready to welcome a highly motivated, experienced, and productive R&D Mechanical Engineer to join the Environments Engineering & Integration Department as a loads and dynamics engineer. Our work encompasses a wide range of applications in structural dynamics and signal processing and offers many opportunities for research and development. The position involves a challenging mix of engineering analysis, modeling, model validation, data analysis, signal processing, and product performance evaluation for a wide range of Sandia products.

There are significant opportunities to team with in‑house (high‑fidelity, multi‑physics) analysis teams, testing teams, as well as daily opportunities to work on very challenging problems utilizing world‑class computational and testing resources.

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

Team with project, test, and analysis engineers at Sandia and with Sandia's external stakeholders.

Lead a diverse team of staff to support our programmatic needs.

Lead or be a member of a shock and vibration environments qualification team.

Support shock and vibration specification development for weapons systems, wind/water turbines, missile payloads, and space instruments.

Support the development of field testing to collect environments data.

Work with the modeling and simulation analysis community to derive and assess environmental specifications and test specifications.

Analyze data from field and laboratory tests to derive and assess environmental specifications and test specifications.

Work closely with systems team and individual component leads to advise on all topics related to shock and vibration qualification.

Represent environments team to LLNL, NNSA, military branches, KCNSC, missile vendors and other stakeholders.

Participate in applied research to improve shock and vibration data analysis and specification development.

Join our team and achieve your goals while making a difference!

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must work onsite.

Salary Range:

$138,600 - $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…