Intern - Thermal/Fluid Component Sciences - Technical Graduate Year Round

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you a motivated graduate student looking to use and expand your computational multiphysics capabilities to enhance energy storage technology? Do you want to join a diverse and interdisciplinary team of laboratory and industrial researchers?

You could be the year-round, graduate intern we are seeking to work with a dynamic team on simulating electrode drying to improve energy consumption during manufacturing. Your computational research will help to improve electrode manufacturing for electric vehicles by answering questions such as how electrically conductive binder is distributed during the drying process or how active material particle alignment is affected by drying rate. You will also help improve existing codes that can be compiled using leading-edge, high-performance computing resources. Through your code and model development, you will provide ground-breaking computational tools that can be used internally and with our industry collaborators to improve manufacturing for energy storage materials.

During the span of this project, you will be expected to:

• Perform coupled, multiphysics simulations on mesoscale energy storage systems

• Expand and improve the existing, state-of-the-art finite element capabilities for use in high-performance computing systems

• Interact with an interdisciplinary team of experimentalists and modelers to optimize the electrode manufacturing process for use in electric vehicles

• Work efficiently as an independent researcher and in a team of scientists working towards a common goal

• Contribute to scientific work published in peer-reviewed journals and as internal reports

• Present your work to internal and external clients and team members

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 a related accredited undergraduate program

• 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:

• Experience in modeling and simulation of energy storage systems and/or computational fluid dynamics

• Expertise with running and postprocessing finite element simulations on massively parallel computing clusters

• Strong motivation, willingness to learn unfamiliar subjects, and ability to work in an interdisciplinary team of industry and laboratory subject matter experts

• Demonstrated record of peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and technical conference presentations

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 Thermal/Fluid Component Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories provides a wide range of fluid modeling and analysis, and experimental discovery and validation support in discipline areas such as: incompressible flow, porous flow, reactive flow, multiphase flow, thermal/fluid coupling, suspensions, plasma physics, and rarefied gas dynamics. The department supports activities spanning the entire research-design-analysis spectrum, from creating fundamental physical models, to developing computational algorithms and codes, to applying these models and codes to solve fluid and plasma problems in a wide range of applications.

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 L-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 the 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: 691478