Senior/Principal Intelligent RF Communications Electrical or Computer Engineer, Onsite

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• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
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• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

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Are you an experienced Electrical or Computer Engineer excited by Sandia's calling to render an exceptional service in the national interest? Intelligent RF Communications is seeking highly motivated Electrical or Computer Engineers to join our team and support the Nation's missile defense. You will work on a team of electrical/computer engineers and technologists to develop electronics for a variety of missile payloads. You will support design, build, test, integration, and launch in a challenging fast-paced high-consequence environment. Are you up for this challenge? Apply today!

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

• Design and prototype embedded firmware and electronics.
• Troubleshoot hardware both in the lab and in the field.
• Coordinate with teams both across the Labs and external to Sandia.
• Support environmental acceptance and qualification testing of flight hardware.
• Work with a team of highly skilled technologists to build and test hardware.
• Lead technical projects across multiple disciplines.
• Mentor early career technical staff.

$114,000 - $227,500

*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.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level and SCI security clearance.

The ideal R&D S&E Computer Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Computer Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Demonstrated ability to execute and deliver technical work products with application of appropriate rigor and pedigree documentation (design/code reviews, technical oversight/approvals, project team concurrence, artifact generation, etc.).
• Experience in computer systems design and software development for real-time and embedded processing systems, distributed processing systems, or real-time client server implementations.
• Familiarity with hardware/software requirements generation for verification, validation and qualification.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to work in a multidisciplinary, multi-disciplinary team setting for a common purpose.

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

• Laboratory experience working with electronics test equipment, such as DC power supplies, oscilloscopes, function generators, multimeters, and spectrum analyzers.
• Experience reading an electrical schematic and troubleshooting electronics in a laboratory.
• Able and willing to travel approximately two weeks per quarter.
• Electrical modeling and simulation experience in a tool such as Matlab/Simulink.
• Experience performing schematic capture and board layout.
• Experience designing, building, populating, and troubleshooting electronics.
• DSP, FPGA, and/or SoC firmware development experience.
• Experience with Radiation Tolerant and Radiation Hardened electronics.
• Experience designing and troubleshooting RF circuits and systems.
• Experience environmentally testing electronics.
• NI LabVIEW experience.
• Experience working in a FOD and ESD controlled environment.
• Experience mentoring laboratory workers.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.

Center 5300 tackles the hardest RF and electronics problems through partnerships with government, industry and academia to advance nuclear deterrence and warfighter dominance. We steward and develop core technologies for advanced flight systems, aerospace precision guidance, fuzing, target acquisition and defeat, non-kinetic effects, advanced radar, tagging, tracking and location for military and intelligence applications.

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.

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.

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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