Job Description

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking an Intern Year Round - R&D Undergrad

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

• Organize a wide variety of materials based on their different chemical/physical characteristics
• Perform lab cleanup and organization
• Collect sample images using optical microscopes
• Handle and mix chemicals
• Aid in design of test fixtures, layouts, assemblies, and procedures
• Aid in experimental assembly and disassembly
• Utilize lab instruments including but not limited to load-frames, thermal chambers, microscopes, and electrical contact resistance
• Use your creativity to improve testing methodologies

Salary Range:

At Sandia, we value the important work done by our interns and its contribution to National Security. Because of this, our interns earn competitive pay rates. Our pay structure is based on earned credit hours, classification, and degree level. Your pay rate will be determined during the hire process and included in your offer package. You can view the Intern Pay Rate chart here (https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/51/2024/01/Student-Rate-Sheet\_2024.pdf) .

Qualifications We Require:

You bring the confidence and skills to be eligible for the job by meeting these minimum requirements:

• Currently attending and enrolled full time in an accredited undergraduate program
• Pursuing a science, engineering, or math major
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0
• Ability to work up to 25 hours per week during the academic year, and up to 40 hours per week during the summer
• U.S. citizenship

Qualifications We Desire:

• Strong organizational skills/abilities
• Ability to work independently
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Familiarity with chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, or related subjects
• Basic understanding and hands on experience with chemical laboratory etiquette and safe lab practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Team oriented personality

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.

About Our Team:

The Materials A&L, ARM and Data Engineering Department provides the expertise, knowledge and capabilities to anticipate, detect, assess, and predict materials concerns that affect nuclear weapon product lifecycle management. We integrate multidisciplinary materials science expertise and data science in support of all phases of product life. Our team provides a critical interface with the NNSA through its leadership of the Aging & Lifetimes and At-Risk Materials programs. We are also responsible for stewarding key partnerships with the weapon modernization programs. The department coordinates a team of experts who serve as liaisons between the SNLNM/CA materials community and the Product Realization Teams to ensure robust decision-making for materials usage throughout the product realization process. Our materials compatibility evaluation team partners with the liaisons to improve confidence in materials selection. This broad suite of mission activities generates a large and diverse body of data. The department's data engineering team develops and implements a modern data and information management framework to ensure that the data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable by the materials community.

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.

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: 693952

Job Family: 91

Regular/Temporary Position: T

Full/Part-Time Status: P

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.