R&D Systems Engineer - Weapon Technical Assessment (Early/Mid-Career)
Posting Duration
This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
What Your Job Will Be Like
Are you looking for an opportunity to impact the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear deterrent?
If so, you may be the R&D Systems Engineer we are seeking to join our diverse team focused on ensuring a viable nuclear deterrent. You will assess conceptual and realized design details as they pertain to the implementation of nuclear weapon design and qualification principles. Other activities include participation within various integrated teams (e.g., Weapon Assessment Teams, Significant Finding Investigation committees, Weapon Project Teams, DoD, and NNSA).
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Create and document technical justifications and rationale.
- Develop technical subject matter expertise while working closely with peers at Sandia, Los Alamos National Lab, Pantex, and Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
- Assess electrical and electro-mechanical component design, analysis, production and testing.
- Review and assess requirements and requirement evidence.
- Assess risk in production and test anomalies.
- Analyze test planning and execution and data analysis throughout the lifetime of a weapon
- Perform hazards/safety/failure analysis (e.g., root cause analysis, fault tree analysis, failure modes and effects analysis).
- Utilize knowledge in nuclear weapon design, analysis, or testing.
This position could require travel to Pantex (TX), LANL (NM), LLNL (CA), SNL/CA, and KCNSC (MO)
Qualifications We Require
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM field plus five (5) years of experience;
- or an advanced degree in a related field
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance
- Ability to participate as requested in random polygraph testing
Qualifications We Desire
- Dedication to support our unique nuclear weapon mission
- Breadth of technical knowledge and the ability to be creative when solving deeply complex technical problems
- Proven ability to interact and work with diverse teams
- Effective communication and interaction with multiple levels of personnel in the Nuclear Security Enterprise
- Desire to continuously learn and improve
About Our Team
The Independent Technical Assessment Group assesses the objective technical evidence regarding the degree to which surety-related products and processes meet technical customer requirements and expectations, weapon-related process requirements, and helps ensure all technical issues associated with the product are understood to support risk-informed decisions. The group consists of the five core disciplines: Nuclear Safety (09411), Integrated Systems (09412), Reliability (08745, 09413), Technical Quality (09414), and Surveillance Assessment (09415). The evaluation of the stockpile is performed by a team assigned to each stockpiled or development system that consists of each discipline. These teams provide input that informs the congressionally mandated letter from the laboratory director stating the nuclear safety, security, and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapon deterrent
About Sandia
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 schedules, generous vacations, 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.
Security Clearance
Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.
EEO
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.