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:

Are you passionate about your work and dream of utilizing state-of-the-art facilities to explore solutions? Would you like to join a dynamic team that solves significant issues for our nation's security? If so, we encourage you to explore this exciting opportunity within Sandia National Laboratories.

The Secure Embedded Systems department (5327) is seeking a motivated firmware or embedded software engineer to support large multi-disciplinary programs critical to national security. The successful candidate will support the design, development, test, and deployment of novel FPGA and embedded software solutions. The successful candidate will have a background and understanding of embedded software and systems, FPGAs, and firmware, and a readiness to apply this understanding to a variety of hardware systems.

You will work alongside world-class authorities and emerging leaders and use your skills in the following areas:

• Embedded software
• FPGA Firmware
• Verification & validation techniques
• Real-time data processing
• Object-oriented software frameworks and architecture development
• Networked and distributed architectures

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

Salary Range:

$109,300 - $217,400

*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:

• An advanced degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or relevant STEM field with 1 year of relevant experience;
• -or- a Bachelor's degree in STEM fields with at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Your background must include one or more of the following:
• Experience developing and deploying embedded software
• Experience targeting embedded processors in FPGAs
• Experience with embedded OS (Ubuntu, GreenHills, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability using revisions control and bug tracking tools (Jira, Gitlab, Git)
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q security clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

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

• Demonstrated experience with C++ and Python
• Familiarity with guidance, navigation, and control algorithms
• Experience in logic verification, preferably System Verilog/UVM
• Experience with FPGA design tools (Xilinx Vivado, SynplifyPro, etc)
• Experience with firmware DSP implementation
• Experience in taking an FPGA design to hardware and/or ASIC and utilizing the full array of debugging tools (embedded and bench logic analyzer, O-scope, etc.)
• Testing and debugging software systems
• Experience with large, distributed command, control, and data processing systems
• Experience developing test plans to verify and validate high rigor designs
• Excellent teaming and communication skills
• Interest in leading multidisciplinary technical teams
• An Active DOE Q security clearance.
• The ability to be granted a SCI clearance, which generally requires a polygraph.

About Our Team:

The Trusted & Secure Systems department (Organization 5327) focuses on the development of secure and aware command, control, and communications functions for terrestrial, airborne, and space-based systems that are critical for national security applications. Representative system components include those necessary for protection of high value assets, various point-to-point, static and dynamic C2 architectures, and situational analyses requiring compact operating systems and processing. The development and integration of resilience, confidentiality, integrity, and availability is necessary for high reliability systems critical for national security missions.

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.

Job ID: 694510

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.