Intern - Explosives Technologies Group - Technical Undergraduate Year-Round

What Your Job Will Be Like

We are seeking a Year-Round Technical- Undergraduate Intern
On any given day, you may be called on to assist Senior Staff members and technologists in:

• Advanced development, early design, and performance characterization related to explosive components needed for Nuclear Deterrent (ND) and Strategic Partnership Program (SPP) projects.
• Developing and evaluate new design concepts for emerging explosive component applications
• Developing and negotiate product interfaces and requirements that balance performance, safety, and shelf-life considerations
• Work with experimentalists and modelers inside and outside of Group 7550 to characterize performance, safety, and/or shelf-life (including margin analysis) of explosive components
• Work with external suppliers and SMEs across SNL to develop and characterize fabrication processes and coordinate explosive and inert test activities

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.

Qualifications We Require

You bring the confidence and skills to be eligible for the job by meeting these minimum requirements:

• Currently attending and enrolled full time in a related accredited undergraduate program
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0
• Ability to work up to 25 hours per week during the academic year, and up to 40 hours per week during the summer
• U.S. citizenship

Qualifications We Desire

• • Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or another related engineering discipline
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Q clearance
  • Experience with or a willingness to learn an HDL programming language such as VHDL or Verilog
  • Experience with FPGA design tools and simulators
  • Experience interfacing to electronic based sensors
  • Experience writing, or updating existing, embedded software to verify/test digital designs
  • Electronic design for mixed signal circuits and simulation
  • Design of amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters, digital-to-analog converters, digital design, power regulation circuits, or microprocessors
  • Serial interface communication standards
  • Excellent teaming and communication skills
  • Experience using laboratory test equipment to help test and verify digital electronic hardware

About Our Team

The Explosives Technologies Group (ETG) provides diverse technical expertise and an agile, integrated approach to solve complex challenges involving energetic materials. We design for performance and safety. We deliver high quality, product, and reliable components. We perform critical assessments of energetic materials throughout their life cycles. We pursue state-of- the-art solutions for NW and WFO customers. Explosive Technology Maturation and Advanced Programs (7558) is responds to emerging design and production challenges to advance the future of explosives related to non-nuclear explosive components and materials for the Nuclear Security Enterprise.

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.

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.