Senior/Principal Electrical Engineer - Advanced Mechanical Design, Onsite

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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 chosen for an interview will be asked to provide an overview briefing of their technical experience.

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.

$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.

• 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 a DOE Q clearance
• Ability to acquire and maintain Sigma 15 access

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 to develop and present briefings that are clear and compelling

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

• The ability to acquire and maintain qualifications for working safely with electrical hazards
• Experience working in Nuclear Deterrence mission spaces including design, development, production or surveillance
• Experience designing, modeling, and testing analog circuits
• Experience testing and debugging electrical hardware and test setups
• Attention to detail
• Technical project management or leadership experience
• An active DOE Q-level security clearance; or other equivalent active security clearance such as DOD Top Secret with CNWDI

The Advanced Mechanical Design Group (7610) is responsible for electromechanical safety and security mechanisms (components) for Nuclear Deterrence (ND) applications. We perform conceptual design, full-scale engineering development, product characterization, product qualification,componentproduction support, and ongoing surveillance. Mechanisms for which we have design responsibility include unique signal strong links, environmental sensing devices, weapon release detection switches, and future safety concepts.

Our technical backgrounds are diverse. Some of us have spent years focusing on the fine details of particular technologies and are recognized as nation-level specialists. Some of us are generalists and support multiple projectskeeping things connected and developing new skills.

Our teams are comprised of specialists and generalists working together, and it is easy to shift between projects and technical roles over time.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

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.

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.

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.