Senior​/Principal - Computer Science - Software Engineer, Hybrid; Colorado

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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*

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Passionate about Space, Satellites, and other Remote Sensing systems? Join our dynamic team and make a difference providing creative solutions to unique national security challenges!

We are seeking a R&D Computer Science professional to join a highly productive team working from an off‑site location near Colorado Springs CO. In this role, you will collaborate in an innovative environment to provide software engineering, build engineering, cyber, and development support for a space domain awareness software application.

• Work with an Agile team of developers to develop and deliver high test readiness level (TRL) software to the customer using object‑oriented design and continuous integration/delivery methods.
• Collaborate with developers, technical leads, and other organization
  ¿ s colleagues to collect requirements, design solutions, and deliver extensible software applications.
• Work on image processing and data‑centric research and development projects.
• Deliver software builds to other sites to include installation and testing.
• Use debugging tools, static analysis tools, test harnesses, and other capabilities to troubleshoot and fix complex software applications and libraries.
• Engage with diverse specialists in areas such as image processing, analytics, modeling and simulation, service‑oriented architectures, data management and visualization.

The selected applicant can work a combination of onsite and offsite work. The selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.

$108,600 - $216,600

* 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.

• 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.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q and SCI clearance which may require a polygraph test.

The ideal R&D Computer Science candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Demonstrated software development skills and familiarity with modern software development practices and tools (e.g., Agile).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, and a passion to improve and expand technical skills.

• Ability to occasionally travel to other sites.
• Object‑oriented software development in Java, C++, and/or Python.
• Continuous Improvement/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) experience using…