Cleared Senior​/Principal R&D Mechanical Engineer - W87-0​/Sentinel Integration, Onsite

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Cleared Senior/Principal R&D Mechanical Engineer - W87-0/Sentinel 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

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 experienced R&D Mechanical Engineer to join our multidisciplinary teams performing critical work to maintain a safe and reliable national defense while advancing warhead deployment of the land-based leg of the nuclear deterrent triad!

Our people are designing and building a suite of flight test vehicles to enable W87-0 integration on the Air Force's Sentinel missile. This is a highly collaborative work environment where successful candidates will be involved in design maturation, hardware assembly, and qualification testing. If you're looking to be part of a dynamic, hardworking team, this may be the position for you!

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

Develop detailed understanding of customer requirements and ensure maturation of requirements for specific systems aspects or components

Collaborate with system engineers and component engineers, and provide technical guidance on critical design elements

Define, design, analyze, and review mechanical system and subsystem assemblies, drawings, models, etc.

Team with experts to plan, execute and analyze data from advanced experiments and modeling and simulation

Maintain and update production documentation

Perform technical analyses and trade studies to inform risk-based decisions

Plan and execute testing for environmental, function, and safety qualification

Integrate and test subassemblies

Develop systems level understanding of collected data and support anomaly resolution

Present to diverse audiences at technical design reviews and programmatic meetings

Represent Sandia on internal and external multi-organizational project teams

The position requires an ability to travel up to 25% to support the mission.

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

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

Salary Range:

$139,900 - $280,600

* 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 research and development.

Active DOE Q or DoD TS security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

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

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

Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.

Experience with mechanical engineering and product realization in the NNSA complex.

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or in a…