Electronics Technologist (Early 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.

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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Our team is seeking a highly motivated electronics technologist. Your primary focus will be to support the development of specialized RF communications and remote sensing systems for National Security applications. You may be required to make occasional travel within the Continental U.S. for field tests. Projects range from very urgent, quick reaction requests in response to real-world driven needs to longer term, life-critical efforts with rigorous development requirements. You will become a member of a multi-discipline, success oriented high-performance team.

On any given day you may be called on to:

• Assemble and test RF electrical assemblies

• Troubleshoot custom electronics circuits

• Conduct field testing of electronics including test planning, coordination, and execution

• Coordinate with production partners on test specs, processes, and non-conforming product

• Procure, evaluate, and organize parts

• Fabricate cables and circuit boards

• Document build processes and test results

• Maintain laboratory space and equipment.

Qualifications We Require:

• You will have a technical associate’s degree; or 4 years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of the associate’s degree

• Experience with general electronic test equipment including power supplies, multi-meters, and oscilloscopes

• Experience assembling, testing, and troubleshooting electronic circuitry

• Ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

Ideally, we would like to see your background include some of the following:

• Bachelors of Science degree in a relevant field

• You bring experience with, or education in, general test and measurement equipment (oscilloscopes, DVM, logic analyzers) and RF test equipment (network analyzer, spectrum analyzer)

• Experience with automated instrument control

• LabVIEW or MATLAB programming experience

• Field test experience and support

• Ability to plan, coordinate, and document testing, including field tests

• Experience with PWB assembly, soldering, and inspection

• IPC-610 Solder and Inspection Certification

• Experience with potting materials and vacuum chamber processes

• Understanding of wireless communication electronics and related systems

• Experience performing antenna measurements

• Experience laying out and assembling electronic chassis/enclosures

• Effective communication and documentation skills

• Be motivated by working with a highly successful, dynamic project team delivering systems that impact our National Security

• Currently active DOE Q-level security clearance (or DoD-TS equivalent).

About Our Team:

The Advanced Radio Frequency Applications department researches, develops, evaluates and deploys specialized RF systems for a number of national security applications including space based, airborne, and terrestrial RF communications, Command and Control (C2), remote sensing, nontraditional Electronic Counter Measures / Electronic Warfare (ECM/EW), and specialized Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (TTL) systems. Members of the department have broadly varying skills including RF/microwave circuit and system design, antenna design, digital signal processing, embedded system hardware and software, digital system design, operational field-testing development/support, and program/project management. Design challenges include highly miniaturized electronic system design, communication system architecture, ultra-low size, weight, and power (SWaP) hardware, ultra-low-noise receivers, and signal extraction/classification techniques in low Signal-to-Noise-Ratio environments. We are tightly integrated with other departments in the Advanced RF Applications business area and regularly partner across organizational boundaries internal and external to SNL, to include working closely with Government/Military partners to consistently deliver high-impact solutions to some of our nation¿s most difficult national security problems.

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.

Job ID: 689858