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
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What Your Job Will Be Like:
The Flight, Instrumentation, & Test Solutions group is seeking a passionate and experienced leader to lead the Flight & Instrumentation Systems Department. As the Research and Development (R&D) Manager, you will lead a highly skilled multidisciplinary team focused on supporting both Nuclear Deterrence and Strategic Partnership programs for capabilities that include embedded software and systems, customized firmware development, and telemetry and instrumentation. The selected candidate will be instrumental in maintaining and developing current and new capabilities and technologies for the organization, across the lifecycle of a variety of projects. On any given day your job may involve the following:
- Work collaboratively with peer R&D managers and program management to deliver on project outcomes to existing government sponsors on time and to the standards of quality expected from Sandia.
- Manage a team (15-18) of innovative scientists and engineers, technologists, and interns. including recruiting, hiring, retention, performance engagement, career development, and skills-projects alignment needed on a regular basis.
- Build and maintain relationships with government sponsors in the national security community, with a focus on identifying new opportunities for Sandia to meet the needs of our partners.
- Travel to program and project meetings/offsites as needed.
For 75 years Sandia has worked tirelessly to deliver on our charter as outlined by President Truman in 1949 - "To render exceptional service in the national interest". This manager must as a requisite for the position have the necessary growth mindset and enthusiasm to see beyond what is currently being done and imagine what Sandia can deliver for national security in the future.
Due to the nature of the work, this candidate must work onsite.
Salary Range:
$149,700 - $254,400
*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 masters in science or engineering plus 8 years, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Experience partnering with government representatives, government laboratories, internal and external teams, and suppliers at all levels to negotiate, plan and deliver solutions for customer applications.
- Active DOE Q or DoD Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a SCI clearance, which may require a polygraph examination.
- Two years of demonstrated leadership experience.
Qualifications We Desire:
- A doctoral degree in science or engineering (Ph.D.)
- Experience in embedded system (hardware, firmware, software) development including test, qualification, fielding and post-mission lessons learned in the following applications:
- Flight, Telemetry and Instrumentation systems
- Model based systems engineering
- Signal/image processing and analysis
- Information/data science
- Remote sensing technologies
- Experience in developing or managing Strategic Partnership Programs (SPP) and Nuclear Deterrence programs and projects and understanding of the funding process.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership, teamwork, and negotiation. Demonstrated capability to build trust-based relationships among peers, staff, management, and customers at all levels.
- Demonstrated experience developing technical proposals, presenting these proposals to potential customers, and acquiring funding for those proposals.
- Develop strategies and roadmaps in technology development areas that are integrated into the customer solution space.
- Experience in formal development methodologies to tailor design and qualification processes for a diverse level of quality rigor.
- Demonstrated ability to work well in diverse, multidisciplinary engineering and leadership teams.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain the engineering pipeline via recruiting and hiring from summer students to the senior levels of the engineering technical ladder.
- Ability to travel (domestic and international) as needed.
- Current SCI clearance.
About Our Team:
The Flight, Information, & Test Solutions Group (7660) provides engineering solutions supporting a broad range of critical national security missions. These missions span Sandia's Nuclear Deterrence (ND) and Strategic Partnership Program (SPP) customer base, giving us the unique opportunity to leverage our core competencies and capabilities (i.e. sensors, testers, telemetry, software) across the laboratory. Our organization supports the full product life cycle, from research and development to early product prototyping and production introduction through sustained support. We actively manage our capabilities to ensure that we meet both current and future needs of our customers.
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:
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.
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: 693593
Job Family: RD
Regular/Temporary Position: R
Full/Part-Time Status: F