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:

The Dynamic Effects Simulation & Testing Department is seeking an experienced and motivated Mechanical Engineer to join our team.

The selected candidate will execute in a mechanical engineering design role on full product life cycle prototyping and development of advanced pathfinder technologies to support Missile & Strike Systems ground and flight-test activities to address national needs.

Our diverse team primarily conducts Strategic Partnership Projects aligned with the Integrated Military Systems – Missile & Strike Systems – program area. We develop and lead projects with our DoD sponsors by utilizing our design & analysis tools and lab & field test capabilities. Your responsibilities will include design efforts to develop technologies from concept through prototype and demonstration. Your role will include an emphasis on system performance improvement and cost reduction by implementing design for manufacturing, additive manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, and novel design and material implementation.

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

• Team with the Missile & Strike Systems managers and project engineers to develop and execute programs with our multidiscipline technical teams for integrated systems solutions.

• Lead or contribute to the project team for development of systems requirements and meet milestone deliverables.

• Utilize your mechanical design skillset to develop novel design development and trade studies.

• Leverage your knowledge of Design for Manufacturing and a diverse set of fabrication methods including Additive Manufacturing and Composite Manufacturing to improve performance and reduce cost of component and system designs.

• Present design & test efforts and provide documentation for internal and external project reviews and reports.

  Limited travel required in support of project meetings and test activities. Due to the nature of the work, this candidate must be able to work onsite.

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’s degree + 1 year of experience in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or related STEM discipline

• Knowledge and demonstrated experience of mechanical design principles

• Experience in leading component or system designs through the engineering design cycle

• Experience in Additive Manufacturing

• Solid Modeling design experience

• Active DOE Q level security clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Experience with Creo, Solidworks, and PDM Link

• Demonstrated implementation of innovative and transformative design concepts that increase component and system performance or reduce manufacturing costs and timelines

• Experience working with mechanical environment test facilities and development of environmental test specifications for qualification and acceptance testing of components and assemblies

• Excellent technical and time-management skills

• Demonstrated effective oral and written communication skills including documentation (e.g. reports or publications) and presentations of design methodology and trade studies.

• Dedicated, reliable, motivated and a self-starter.

• Track record of attention to detail in task execution (meticulous work approaches)

• Ability to work independently and/or on highly agile teams

• Ability to perform hazardous operations with appropriate training and certification (e.g. mechanical assembly work around safe rocket motor)

About Our Team:

The Integrated Military Systems Development Center (IMSDC) manages numerous programs in support of developing the nation's capabilities in defending against emerging National Security threats. Our Terminal Ballistics Technology Department, within the IMSDC, supports a wide range of Department of Defense and Department of Energy funded programs. Our mission is development of enabling pathfinder technologies that yield new prototype system designs (military & nonmilitary) for demonstrating improved warfighter protection systems, sensor probes for geological or planetary characterization, and improved hard target defeat capabilities. The Department's projects involve leading development of technologies for enhanced system survivability and functionality over a wide range of impact scenarios; performing system design and effectiveness trade studies, culminating in subsystem and systems integration testing that demonstrates design and test capabilities with engineering hardware. Our experimental capabilities include design and oversight of terminal ballistics field testing activities on DoD and DOE ranges.

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:

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.

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: 693599

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F