Job Description

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 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 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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Ready to join a dynamic team that solves significant issues for our nation’s security? Are you passionate about RF and Electronics systems that help advance nuclear deterrence and warfighter dominance? If so, we invite you to explore this opportunity to join our impactful team and make a difference!

Organization 5344 is seeking a motivated and energetic electrical engineer to join our electronics team! The successful candidate will be working on complex multi-disciplinary designs targeting command and control, communications, and data processing for scientific and national defense applications. As a successful candidate, you will be responsible for contributing as part of a team to complex systems that target state-of-the-art embedded platforms. Having a desire to learn and develop your own skills will be crucial and beneficial as you join a fun and motivated team to accomplish missions vital to our nation. Some travel will be required in this position.

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

• Analyze, design, and develop radar systems, subsystems, and modules
• Develop Concepts of Operation
• System-level design and integration
• Develop test and qualification plans
• Develop models for computational analysis of systems and processes
• Lead or support formal program reviews
• Negotiate technical and programmatic requirements with customers
• Deliver hardware within schedule and budgetary constraints
• FPGA/Firmware Design and Implementation
• Embedded systems
• Real-time data processing
• Large scale development systems and architectures
• Algorithm development, implementation, and validation
• Verification and validation techniques
• Shape, guide or lead research activities to support program needs
• Develop technical documentation
• Troubleshoot problems and support anomaly resolution activities
• Serve as a technical interface to other design and support organizations

This position is eligible for telecommuting and the selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.

Salary Range:

$109,300 - $217,400

*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:

• Master of Science in Engineering (STEM) plus two or more years of relevant experience; or
• Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or relevant STEM field plus five or more years of relevant experience;
• Experience with Radar System hardware, software, systems analysis, and/or scattering phenomenology
• Strong background in the fundamentals of Radar and Digital Signal Processing
• Experience in the use of MATLAB/Simulink and/or similar numerical computation, high-level programming languages, as well as other programming languages (C/C++, Java, Python, Fortran, VB script, etc.)
• Familiarity with and experience in use of RF/microwave test equipment and proper measurement techniques for network analysis, spectrum analysis, noise characterization, etc.
• or experience in taking a FPGA design to hardware and/or ASIC and utilizing the full array of debug tools (embedded and bench logic analyzer, O-scope, etc.); or experience in doing high speed electronics board design.
• Active DOE Q or DoD TS level security clearance
• Ability to obtain and maintain a SCI Clearance, which may require a polygraph.

Qualifications We Desire:

Ideally, we would like to see your background include some of the following:

• You possess embedded software and/or firmware development skills; as well as, familiar with the 1 or more of the following development methodologies or tools:
• Experience in logic verification, preferably System Verilog/UVM
• Experience with FPGA design tools (Xilinx Vivado, SynplifyPro, etc.)
• Experience with firmware DSP implementation
• Experience in taking a FPGA design to hardware and/or ASIC and utilizing the full array of debug tools (embedded and bench logic analyzer, O-scope, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of RTL synthesis flow for ASIC design
• Experience in software DSP implementation
• Experience in low-level device driver development and interfacing with hardware
• Experience with software quality tools and processes such as linters, code documentation tools, static analyzers, dynamic analyzers, continuous integration tools, unit testing, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, as well as work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team environment, building consensus and resolving issues.
• Willingness to work in a team-based development effort including tight integration with a hardware team
• Good interpersonal and oral skills
• Strong background and experience in RF and applied electromagnetics
• Python and C/C++ software experience
• Ability to understand mathematically complex systems, develop and analyze models, and draw concise conclusions from them
• Experience in low-level device driver development and interfacing with hardware
• Experience interacting with military personnel and protocol
• Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic environment that sometimes requires quick problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively both internal and external to the organization
• Comfort with a position of technical leadership and the responsibility to make decisions and support them
• Experience in preparing, publishing and presenting technical information including patents
• Critical thinking skills and the ability to determine root cause failure in complex systems
• Ability to work well with others with a positive attitude
• Ability to travel.
• Active DOE Q-level or DOD TS clearance.
• Active DOE SCI Security clearance.

About Our Team:

Department 5344 provides a diverse set of skills for developing tip-to-tail radar technology to a wide variety of programs across Sandia. We work in the mission systems engineering space for our surveillance and reconnaissance program office, mapping customer needs to uniquely compelling system solutions by leveraging Sandia’s expertise in various sensor technologies, computing platforms, and data analyses as well as Sandia’s external partnerships. The department focuses on exquisite platforms and applications through firmware and software.

Mission:

• We tackle the hardest RF and electronics problems through partnerships with government, industry, and academia to advance warfighter dominance from strategic deterrence to ISR platforms.

Vision:

• Anticipate,
• Innovate,
• Dominate

We Value:

• People
• Delivering with excellence
• Innovation
• Ethical leadership at all levels
• Partnerships

Center 5300 provides key electronics systems deliverables to a wide variety of programs across Sandia (including nuclear weapons, space, intelligence and military systems) and also directly manages the Surveillance and Reconnaissance (S&R) Program.

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.

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 and SCI access, both of which require US citizenship. SCI access may also require a polygraph examination. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain these levels of access 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 the 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.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

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.

Job ID: 694305

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.