R&D Senior Scientist/Engineer Component Digital Arming, Fuzing, & Electronics Products 5300, Onsite

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This Senior Scientist Engineer job posting is to fill a Domain Chief Engineer (DCE) Role for Arming and Fuzing Major Components with a focus on digital products, electronics, controllers and interfaces. The DCE is a role at the Senior Scientist level intended to provide a single point of contact to provide leadership and technical expertise for major issues, electrical and engineering SME expertise, and peer review leadership. This individual would champion consistency with 5300 Component PRTs including advice in the selection, application, and interpretation of design standards and requirements and utilizing advanced engineering tools to solve complex engineering challenges. The Digital Products Component Arming and Fuzing DCE will also partner with Program Chief Engineers (PCEs) and other DCEs to assure consistency and excellence in technical deliverables while assuring timeliness and responsiveness of technical decisions. The DCE is expected to help guide the future of Arming and Fuzing, and ensure the center is focused in appropriately advancing the state of the art necessary to meet our Nation's needs.

Key roles for this Senior Engineer position include:

• Go-to resource for qualification philosophy and other large issues/initiatives
• Lead commonality efforts within group
  • Participates in, or represents, 5350 Change Review Board to maintain leadership over technical efforts, provide expertise, and help ensure consistency in decisions
• Decision making processes for exceptional technical activities or circumstances, and deviations
  • Leading effort for high impact problem solving teams/red teams, etc
  • Provides time-critical assistance on challenging technical product issues
  • Lead strategic planning and execution with group, center, and enterprise-wide impacts
  • Strive for consistent sound, risk informed, and balanced decision making
• Drive Arming and Fuzing architecture discussions and decisions for new systems
• Shape Center peer review culture
  • Leading independent review panels and design reviews
  • Determine peer review needs for individual projects
• Lead collaboration with S&T colleagues
  • Provides training across laboratory in technical area expertise: WIP, NAET, WR713, etc.
• Provides training and knowledge share internal to 5300 or directs staff in providing these opportunities. Examples: radiation testing, qualification strategies, mod/sim capabilities, Fuzing modes, technical decision-making strategies, etc.
• Mentor mid-career staff and PRT leads
  • Lead a weekly meeting with PRT Leads or similar activities
• Owner of an appropriate suite of guides, standards and procedures for design work
  • Leading creation or providing approval for new guides/standards/procedures
  • Approval/rejection to deviate from defined guides, standards and procedures
  • Periodic verification and review
• Partner extensively throughout the Labs and Nuclear Security Enterprise, helping to drive strategy
• Partner and drive change through the PCE, CEN, and KCNSC Technical Authority.

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

$184,400 - $313,700

*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.

• Bachelor's degree in relevant STEM discipline, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Plus, fifteen or more years of relevant ND experience.
• Direct experience in the design, development, and production of Arming, Fuzing, and/or Electronics components.
• Active DOE Q-level or DoD TS security clearance. Ability to obtain an SCI clearance.

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

• Master's degree and/or PhD in a relevant STEM discipline.
• A broad network within Sandia's ND weapons community.
• Broad understanding of the Sandia ND mission and its interfaces and responsibilities with the NNSA and the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE), particularly LLNL, KCNSC, and PX.
• Direct experience in the system technical leadership of other modernization programs.
• Experience conceiving, developing, and leading cross-organizational technical programs/projects/teams.
• Prior or existing working relationships with NNSA and with DoD elements supporting modernization programs.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team environment, with the ability to clearly to communicate solutions and relevant path forward.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to prepare clearly written reports and briefings.
• Outstanding organizational and briefing skills to effectively communicate with diverse audiences including high-level customers and SNL executive leadership.
• Experience in Fuzing digital products, controllers or interface modules.

Center 5300 tackles the hardest RF and electronics problems through partnerships with government, industry and academia to advance nuclear deterrence and warfighter dominance.

Our center stewards and develops 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.

We provide key electronics systems deliverables to a wide variety of programs across Sandia (including nuclear weapons, space, intelligence and military systems) and also directly manages the Surveillance and Reconnaissance (S&R) Program.

Strategic Mission Areas:

• Enhance U.S. operational effectiveness by disrupting peer adversary kill chains through advanced RF means while simultaneously enabling U.S. resilience to such attacks
• Equip the nation with advanced RF and electronic systems to enhance the performance and effectiveness of next-generation delivery platforms
• Develop resilient Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities in contested environments, focusing on specialized communications, navigation, imaging and Tagging, Tracking and Locating (TTL) solutions for DOD and IC partners.

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.

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.

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.

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