Early Career R&D Electrical Engineer - Advanced Mechanical Design, Onsite

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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:

We are seeking a R&D Electrical Engineer to support the full lifecycle of surety components; development, production, and assessment of ongoing lifetime performance. These electromechanical devices play a critical role in assuring the safety and security of the nation's nuclear deterrent in a wide range of environments including severe accident scenarios. Our traditionally mechanical organization is seeking an Electrical Engineer to help our multi-disciplinary approach to cutting-edge surety architecture designs that are being developed and tested.

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

Collaborate on multidisciplinary teams, providing ownership and direction for electrical designs.

Coordinate with customers, production agencies, and stakeholders to support design, testing, development, qualification, and production activities.

Analyze performance against requirements, build prototypes, and refine designs.

Perform modeling and simulation of design performance using tools such as SPICE and MATLAB/Simulink.

Communicate technical information and project status effectively to team members, customers, and management.

Travel to partner and customer locations as required (generally less than once every two months).

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

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

Salary Range:

$102,400 - $199,700

* 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, 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 DOE Q clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

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

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

Ability to work independently and collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team of designers and test engineers

Outstanding verbal and written skills, including the ability…