R&D Systems Engineering Senior Scientist/Engineer
Job description
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.
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.
Salary Range
$162,200 - $275,900
- 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.
What Your Job Will Be Like
This Senior Engineer job posting is to fill the newly defined Chief Program Engineer (CPE) Role for the NGRV Phase 1 program. The CPE partners with the system senior managers and supports the Center 2400 Director in leading the SNL Design Agency effort for the program. The CPEs specific leadership roles include system integration, design optimization and themes, qualification basis and efficiency, anomaly resolution, and technical trades in coordination with sites across the Nuclear Security Enterprise, supported by a team of diverse, discipline specific technical leadership on the program. The role enables technically informed program decisions, establishment of a technical robust design with defensible qualification program, hardware optimization, strategic implementation of digital engineering approaches, evaluation of advanced manufacturing approaches, and facilitation of internal and external peer review approaches for technical questions and challenges. The NGRV CPE will also partner with other CPEs and Domain Chief Engineers (DCE) to assure consistency and excellence in technical deliverables while assuring timeliness and responsiveness of technical decisions.
Key roles for this Senior Engineer position include:
- Owns technical decision authority for the System, enabled by the System Engineering and Integration Team (SEIT) within cost and schedule constraints.
- Technical approval of change requests involving impacts to cost or schedule constraints.
- Leads identification and evaluation of technical impacts to assure program decisions are properly risk informed from a technical perspective.
- Accountable for assuring all key technical concerns are fully informed to SNL executive leadership, such as inadequate technical definition, unclear or ‘to be determined’ requirements, single point technical failures, etc.
- Assure technical rigor and documentation quality for system level product realization documents including signature approval on key system level paperwork such as CD, ME, BB, PQ, RQs, NS, etc.
- SNL lead into Warhead PRT for technical integration and optimization with LLNL, including advisement or technical authority for system Interface Documents (ID)
- Technical coordination and engagement in POG, POG subteams and NNSA Project Team in coordination with program senior managers. Provides technical approval for all external Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
- Lead interface for all major peer and technical reviews on program, including partnership with DCEs to identify appropriate areas for implementation of peer reviews at all levels of program.
- Responsible for executing and documenting the program’s external peer review plan
- Identification and development of the next generation system integration technical leaders.
- Engagement in review and support of other ND system integration activities as needed and in coordination with 2400 Director and Chief Engineer Network.
The selected candidate will lead teams staffed by the NGRV management team with responsibilities including but not limited to:
- Partners with Systems Program Managers to ensure technical options are within acceptable program risk postures.
- Assures technical rigor of system design architecture options and qualification approaches including balanced technical basis (mod-sim and test) in a resource constrained environment
- Leadership in development, optimization, and stewardship of Material Requirements Schedule (MRS) to support technical basis at all levels of assembly recognizing the limitation of SNL’s production partners.
- Insertion efforts to maximize benefits possible utilizing digital engineering, model based system engineering, and advanced manufacturing within program constraints.
- Systems Engineering and Integration partnership with technical leads as required from system team.
- Leadership of cyber security implementation, technical risk management and assurance, including rigor in technical data packages with DOD.
Qualifications We Require
- Master's Degree and/or PhD in a relevant STEM discipline
- Twelve or more years of relevant ND experience
- Direct technical experience in modernization programs for nuclear weapons systems, subsystems, surveillance, production, and/or components.
- Current and active DOE Q-level security clearance.
- Willingness to hold and eligibility for additional clearances as required.
Qualifications We Desire
- A broad network within Sandia’s ND weapons community.
- Broad understanding of the Sandia ND mission and its interfaces and responsibilities with the NNSA and the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) – particularly LLNL, KCNSC, and PX.
- Direct experience in the system technical leadership of other modernization programs.
- Experience conceiving, developing, and leading cross-organizational technical programs/projects/teams.
- Prior or existing working relationships with NNSA and with DoD elements supporting modernization programs.
- Outstanding organizational and briefing skills to effectively communicate with diverse audiences including high-level customers and SNL executive leadership.
About Our Team
We develop safe, secure, trusted, and mission-capable weapon designs and architectures. We partner internally and integrate across the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) to provide thorough, objective information to our nation’s decision makers. We do this through preparing for Programs of Record and Urgent Operational Needs, maintaining a systems and digital engineering capability, and cultivating national and international relationships.
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*
- These benefits vary by job classification.
Security Clearance
Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Sandia is required by DOE directive 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 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.
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