Electronics Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
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.
What Your Job Will Be Like
We are seeking an early-career R&D Electronics Engineer to join a multidisciplinary team that is designing, developing, and testing embedded systems in a telemetry data acquisition system. General responsibilities will range from R&D exploratory development efforts to detailed design (a combination of analog, digital, embedded firmware, schematic capture, and board layout), analysis, overseeing fabrication of hardware, defining and executing test plans, and field support. Successful candidates will work in a team environment with opportunities to acquire increasing levels of responsibility.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Team with telemetry experts to mature and uphold a core telemetry architecture based on modularity
- Design analog front end signal conditioning circuits to prepare an analog input for digitization
- Design high-level digital architectures and firmware requirements that align with top-level telemetry system requirements
- Design and implement embedded instrumentation modules, such as collecting/organizing data from various ICs/sensors via any manner of serial/parallel communication protocols (e.g. SPI, I2C, USB, 8b10b) and physical interfaces
- Develop verification strategies and create test plans to demonstrate firmware designs meet requirements
- Perform hands-on testing and debugging of embedded systems
- Develop documentation of a given design and provide technical presentations to peers and managers
Qualifications We Require
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering, or relevant discipline, and/or an advanced degree in one of these disciplines
- Ability to travel for business
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance
Qualifications We Desire
- Currently holding an active DOE Q security clearance
- Demonstrated experience with embedded firmware design (preferably VHDL) and testbed development
- Demonstrated experience with analog and digital circuit design and analysis
- Hands-on experience testing and debugging circuitry, with clear mastery of tools such as oscilloscopes, logic/network/spectrum analyzers, function/pulse generators, etc.
- Demonstrated strong communication skills with peers and stakeholders
- Demonstrated leadership skills in a highly teaming environment
About Our Team
Sandia California’s Telemetry and Stockpile Support Department develops and maintains telemetry systems in support of the nuclear deterrence surveillance mission. Telemetry systems has responsibility for all aspects of telemetry development, including conceptual design, prototype development and testing, and transitioning production work to DOE production agencies. Telemetry systems integrate precision sensor electronics and signal conditioning with RF communication systems to support flight testing of Joint Test Assemblies. Work is performed by teams of electrical engineers and mechanical engineers, in partnership with quality engineering, reliability engineering, and project management.
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 schedules, 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.