Job Description

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:

We are seeking an Electrical Engineer for the Switch Tube Product Realization team. The role will be complex, involving in-depth learning to design, develop, test, and characterize switch-tube test modules in support of switch tube product realization for national security missions. This job will involve hands-on work in a lab environment.

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

• Learn from senior switch tube and test module designers
• Design and drive product development of high voltage switch tubes
• Design analog electrical circuits and capacitive discharge or pulse circuits
• Collaborate with mechanical engineering designers and material scientists involved in brazing and additive manufacturing
• Collaborate with and direction of technologists’ work in a lab environment
• Create product definition for switch tubes and electrical test modules
• Document tube and test circuit performance against requirements
• Simultaneously supervise and coordinate the creation to production process for multiple high voltage switches and test modules
• Support ongoing production at an external vendor
• Gather empirical evidence and use data mining and statistical tools to analyze, document and report on component characteristics and performance
• Document switch tube and test module development in the form of general engineering and product realization reports.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range:

$95,400 - $185,700

*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:

• Bachelor’s or Advanced Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Ability to acquire and maintain a DOE Q-level clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• Advanced (Master’s or PhD) degree in Electrical Engineering; or a Bachelor\'s in Electrical Engineering plus 2 or more years of related engineering
• Experience with electrical diagnostic equipment
• Experience with circuit design software and simulation tools (e.g. PSpice, Micro-Cap, ORCAD, MultiSim) and board layout
• Experience with high voltage pulse testing and troubleshooting
• Programming and data manipulation skills (MATLAB, Python, VB, etc...)
• Experience designing analog circuits on printed circuit boards
• Experience defining electrical testing/inspection methods and interpreting results
• Experience performing product design and development
• Experience working with customers
• Ability to design, analyze and troubleshoot analog circuits
• Ability to prove-in product to customer requirements
• Ability to work with a team.
• Active DOE Q-clearance (or equivalent)

About Our Team:

The Switch Tube team in Department 7581 provides customers with custom high voltage triggered vacuum switch designs for national security applications. These components are designed to meet demanding performance specifications, offer extremely high reliability, and meet stringent survivability requirements in adverse environments. Join our team to help us design and maintain test capability for current and future generations of high voltage switches.

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:

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.

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.

Position Information:

This Limited Term Employee (LTE) position is a temporary position for one year term, which may be renewed at Sandia\'s discretion up to a maximum of seven years.

Individuals in LTE positions may bid on regular Sandia positions as internal candidates, and in some cases may be converted to regular career positions during their term if warranted by ongoing operational needs, continuing availability of funds, and satisfactory job performance.

Job ID: 693847

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: T

Full/Part-Time Status: F

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.