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 a R&D Manager for the Data Science & Applications department (5553), to provide leadership and management of the department’s research, development, and applications activities. The selected Manager will explore emerging National Security needs, build capabilities and lead geospatial analytics portfolios. The department is one of five in the Mission Analytics Group (5550) in the Applied Information Sciences (AIS) Center (5500).

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

• Oversee the day-to-day activities of managing the department, be an integral part of a cohesive team of managers, develop strategic directions in conjunction with the management team, implement that strategy, and collaborate with internal partners and government sponsors to develop future capabilities.
• Work closely with staff, fellow managers within AIS and across the Laboratories, external partners, and sponsors to deliver on current commitments, as well as to help shape the research, design and application future of the organization.
• Ensure strong career development in our staff via mentoring and coaching.
• Ensure department commitments are implemented with management assurance oversight and by handling and coordinating specific results, overall program and project plans, budgets, schedules, staffing requirements, developing trusted relationships and technology transition plans.
• Engage technically with Sandia staff in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science and Cybersecutiry to understand and represent the information science and analytics capabilities of the team and collaborating organizations.
• Maintain and enhance current internal strategic partnerships with key program areas and capabilities.

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

Travel will be required.

Salary Range:

$149,700 - $254,400

*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 in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or other relevant field plus five (5) or more years’ experience
• or Bachelor’s in above fields plus nine (9) years’ experience
• Experience managing multidisciplinary project teams
• Minimum of two (2) years of demonstrated leadership experience
• Experience working with a diverse set of internal and external sponsors
• Experience building new national security partnerships and/or business
• Active DOE Q or TS security clearance and ability to acquire and maintain SCI access, which may require a polygraph

Qualifications We Desire:

• Ph.D. in the above or other science fields
• Experience leading research teams
• Experience leading efforts for a variety of government sponsors from proposal to execution
• Experience with delivering on the innovation lifecycle: research to development to mission applications to transition
• Experience in machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), data science and/or cyber security
• Demonstrated leadership in AI/ML, information sciences and data analytics/science
• Experience growing leaders
• Experience leading virtual/remote employees
• Ability to handle ambiguous and sometimes conflicting requirements
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Active SCI clearance

About Our Team:

In Mission Analytics, we identify and collect mission needs, share them with researchers inside and outside the labs, collaborate and invest in research, integrate coherent capabilities, and partner with Sandia programs to transition successful research into mission applications. Our primary mission is to seek, pursue, and assess adversaries in different kinds of data and spaces. We also provide analytics capability to support Sandia\'s National Security Programs and partner broadly across Sandia to collaborate on critical programmatic opportunities where analytics are needed. We are successful when detailed capabilities provide a groundbreaking advantage to the nation through improved decisions, behaviors, and outcomes. The current strengths of this group are in computer science, software development, software engineering, applied statistics, applied mathematics, and machine learning. National security challenges require that we become specialists in cross-domain analytics addressing the phenomenal diversity of data types and decision spaces of our sponsors in a coordinated fashion. We continue to grow into this broader problem set.

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: 693903

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

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.