Senior/Principal R&D Electrical Engineer - Electromagnetics Analyst, Onsite

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Are you passionate about challenging physics and engineering problems? Join a dynamic team that helps tackle some of the most challenging issues facing our nation's security!

We are looking for excited and self-motivated candidates to support and execute modeling & simulation of electromagnetics for Sandia's nuclear deterrence and other missions. As an Electromagnetics Analyst, you will help define mission requirements for our nuclear deterrence systems and components and predict the reliability of our engineered technologies in various radiation environment scenarios. You will analyze the impacts of electromagnetics and radiation effects on materials and/or electronics used within these technologies, helping to inform design decisions for adequate component function and resilience. Your role will be a critical bridge between our electromagnetic analysis teams and experimental teams.

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

• Engage with customers, analysts, and experimentalists to understand requirements, frame problems appropriately, design physical tests/diagnostics, choose and execute solution methods, performing data analysis, and communicate results both internal and external to the laboratory
• Interact with a dynamic team of code developers to verify and validate performance and accuracy of state-of-the-art electromagnetic codes running on the NNSA's high performance computing platforms
• Develop models and perform analyses on world-class high-performance computing systems to predict the response on system and component design and qualification
• Identify new research and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams comprised of analysts across Sandia, other NNSA laboratories, and universities toward understanding of complex electromagnetic phenomena
• Report on analysis results via internal briefings, internal reports, publications, and/or conference presentations

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite. Relocation will be provided for those that qualify.

$117,500 - $235,700

*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.

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.
  
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance.

The ideal R&D S&E Electrical Engineer candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Ability to work independently and collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team of designers and test engineers.
• Outstanding verbal and written skills, including the ability to develop and present briefings that are clear and compelling.

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

• Experience in developing customer relationships and providing support using electromagnetic analysis tools and/or measurements.
• Experience designing and measuring physical tests/diagnostics associated with circuit boards, cables, connectors within electromagnetic environments.
• Using commercial EM modeling tools (e.g. HFSS, CST Microwave Studio, COMSOL, FEKO, etc.), circuit modeling tools (Mentor Graphics, Cadence) with data visualizers.
• Developing specialized numerical analysis tools using C++, FORTRAN, Matlab, Python, etc.
• Running numerical simulations on high performance computing platforms (basic Linux commands, batch submission, shell scripting, etc.).
• Publications or presentations demonstrating experience with developing or using numerical simulations, experimental approaches, and/or theoretical analysis applied to electromagnetic phenomena.
• Active DOE Q clearance

The EM/Electronics Analyses Department (1322) performs theoretical and computational research to understand the effects caused by electromagnetic and ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons, space environments and other sources, including those generated by experimental facilities. We develop physical models and numerical methods for deployment in computer codes that model the interaction of particle radiation (X-rays, electrons, neutrons, gammas) with matter and electronics. We use these and other types of codes to predict and understand electrical and mechanical radiation effects and deliver analyses in support of the nuclear deterrent mission. Software quality engineering, software verification methods, validation to experimental data, and uncertainty quantification are fundamental to these computational efforts and supporting analyses. We support a variety of customers who are concerned with the effect of radiation on their systems and components.

The team is committed to attracting, retaining, and encouraging an outstanding workforce representing a broad group of people and perspectives. We share this common vision by encouraging mutual respect among staff, post-docs, and interns from a diverse set of backgrounds. This hardworking team works across Sandia National Laboratories to accomplish outstanding results.

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.

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.

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.

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.