Systems Engineer (Experienced)

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.

Salary Range

$86,300 - $166,800

*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

Our team is seeking a highly motivated Systems Engineer and Project Manager. You will work closely with the a multi-disciplinary staff and team to include software engineers, electronic engineers, and Microwave Engineers. As part of Sandia's Electronic Warfare initiatives, you will work closely with managers, other project leads/engineers, teams and customer to help with planning, requirements, integration and communications. At any given time, you may be asked to help update development backlogs, plan for upcoming releases, support strategic initiatives and work to coordinate and integrate deliverables across teams to meet project deliverables.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Employ an agile engineering approach that supports the integration of Electronic Warfare (EW) Systems
• Support the representation of the EW Systems with customer organizations.
• Lead the strategic planning and support the implementation for future EW capabilities.
• Track and document development progress for the EW System Development.
• Integrate and coordinate with external stakeholders for the testing and operations of EW systems.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite on a regular basis.

Qualifications We Require

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management or relevant field; or equivalent experience
• Plus five years relevant experience performing project management or system engineering activities in either traditional approaches or agile
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Security Clearance and an SCI clearance which may require a polygraph test.

Qualifications We Desire

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

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Project Management
• Experience with requirements elicitation from customers
• Experience with agile project management principles and approaches and time a role as either a scrummaster or product owner
• Ability to provide and author recommendations for planning, procedures and key metrics for large projects
• Ability to update documentation of key deliverables to include briefing material, test procedures, or concepts of operations.
• Active DOE Q or DoD TS Security Clearance
• Active SCI clearance which may require a polygraph test.

About Our Team

The RF & Systems Electronics Center (Center 05300) provides key electronics systems work to a wide variety of nuclear weapons, space, intelligence, and military programs across Sandia and the Nation. The Next-Gen Comms Solutions (05360) focuses on Electromagnetic Warfare applications across the Nation's technology superiority strategies by delivering capabilities for Radio Frequency & spectral dominance, global highly reliable communications, and novel advancements for future strength. We are a highly dynamic set of departments that cross-team to provide integrated engineering systems solutions ranging from core research through prototype development and high-end, fielded products.
The Advanced Engagement Systems department (05364) develops multi-domain novel electromagnetic attack & defense concepts and systems with an eye on low size, weight, and power constrained applications. Our customers include a variety of government organizations including the U.S Armed Forces, the Intelligence Community, and Special Operations. Our staff members have a diverse skills base including microwave circuit design, antenna design, signal analysis, digital signal processing, embedded software, and system designs comprised of the latest associated hardware. We partner across the laboratory and the group to bring on other critical skill sets to our multi-disciplinary team to include computer scientists, systems engineers, and cyber engineers. Our design challenges include system development (designing scalable systems, systems integration into host platforms, etc), understanding complex adversary systems and associated vulnerabilities, and signal analysis and generation of RF low probably of detect waveforms.

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 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.