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:

Sandia’s Space Mission Engineering Program Office (SMEPO) is seeking an experienced remote sensing and space domain awareness (SDA), also known as space situational awareness (SSA), expert to lead and support projects to advance national security in space. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of remote sensing and space domain awareness capabilities and programs, familiarity with SDA modeling tools, and a history of SDA community engagement.

Join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team providing science and engineering solutions to meet vital needs in the growing fields of space domain awareness and space control. This position provides opportunity to have real impact on national security through the development and delivery of critical space-relevant missions.

On any given day you may do the following:

• Conduct modeling and simulation of remote sensing and space domain awareness sensors, systems, and constellations to inform government strategy and acquisitions.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams in project execution.
• Deliver results on time and within budget.
• Build relationships with DOD and/or IC SDA stakeholders.
• Synthesize disparate and incomplete technical data into meaningful information.
• Represent Sandia within the SDA community.
• Network across the Center, Division, and Lab to leverage a broad range of expertise.
• Develop creative solutions to challenging and partially understood problems.
• Generate good-enough results to quick-response customer needs.
• Work with other senior staff and managers to inform SMEPO strategy.
• Work with other senior staff and managers to develop new business with existing and new customers.
• Champion innovation within the department, encouraging the identification of gaps and opportunities for advancing SDA related projects.
• Mentor junior staff.
• Work independently with little oversight.

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:

• A Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience defined by the following parameters:
• Associate’s degree plus nine (9) years of relevant work experience; or
• A High School Diploma plus thirteen (13) years of relevant work experience.*
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance with an SCI.

*Sandia National Laboratories defines relevant work experience for this role as engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.

Qualifications We Desire:

The ideal R&D Systems Engineering candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Active DOE Q or DOD TS security clearance.
• Experience working with National Security Enterprise (NSE) laboratories and plants including Pantex, Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) and Kansas City National Security Campus/New Mexico Operations (KCNSC/NMO).
• Experience working on engineering design, qualification, production, or related modeling/simulation projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in diverse teams.

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

• Active SCI clearance.
• Subject matter expert in space situational awareness.
• Experience with satellite payloads, and/or aerospace programs.
• Experience with image processing algorithm development.
• Experience with the modeling and simulation of sensor performance.
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring of technical staff.
• 5 years of SDA technical experience.
• Project leadership experience and demonstrated ability to deliver results.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain customer relationships.
• Experience with DOD and/or IC space organizations.
• Familiarity and experience with SDA and remote sensing modeling tools.
• Proficiency in Python, C++, STK, and/or MATLAB.
• Familiarity with multiple sensing and communications phenomenology: e.g. RF, SAR, Radar, EO/Vis, IR.

About Our Team:

The Space Mission Engineering Program Office is focused on developing future program opportunities, engaging with key external communities, agencies, and industrial entities. We team with the broad S&T community to drive the development of technologies that differentiate Sandia as a key member of the Nation’s space community. We provide solutions to advance space situational awareness and space control. The department’s focus is on developing state-of-the-art capabilities to enable Space Mission Engineering program execution and Sandia’s National Security missions. We maintain expertise in software/hardware architectures, algorithm development, software engineering, object-oriented software design, physics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and astrodynamics that creates and delivers next generation software and hardware solutions to meet complex national security space 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 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.

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: 693810

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.