Cleared Senior​/Principal R&D Systems Engineer - Hardware Qualification and Testing, 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://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..gov

* These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking an R&D Systems Engineer to execute hardware qualification and testing support in the Mobile Guardian Transport Electronics Engineering, Testers, and Cables group.

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

Use systems engineering principles to implement multidisciplinary engineering approaches to research, design, or develop structures, instruments, machines, experiments, processes, systems, theories, or technologies; to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design or to forecast their behavior.

Initiate, design, develop, execute, and evaluate new processes, products, or systems through basic and applied systems engineering research.

Work closely with the Production Agency for product realization

Utilize creativity and critical thinking in Systems Engineering principles to proactively discern, identify, troubleshoot and mitigate requirements, design, and manufacturing challenges to ensure successful product realization in partnership with a variety of subsystem teams and sponsor needs.

Determine conditions under which tests are to be conducted then prepare test, maintenance, operations, calibration and administrative procedures to support operations at hazardous facilities.

Design, develop, execute and fabricate experiment hardware or test components, systems, and equipment to meet all performance criteria.

Support preparation of all work planning and control documentation, to include failure mode analyses and safety cases, for work being conducted at hazardous facilities.

Own, monitor, and ensure technical excellence of our contracts and contracted partners on the MGT tester subsystem.

Support the analysis and interpretation of test data and recommend alternative solutions to problems and obstacles.

Develop technical documentation for systems such as drawings, work instructions, reports, test plans, manuals, etc.

Work on a specific task basis to support technical activities.

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

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…