Team Lead, R&D Science Cybersecurity - Protective Technologies Group (5642-1)

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:

Are you passionate about your work and dream of utilizing state-of-the-art facilities to explore solutions? Do you want to join a dynamic team that helps tackle some the most challenging issues facing our nation's security?

We are seeking a R&D team lead to lead a team in safe and secure lab activities in two state-of-the-art microelectronics labs, focused on sample preparation and forensic analysis, that have direct impact to our nation’s security. The leadership role is hands-on, technical, challenging, and rewarding. You will be leading and working alongside a team of ambitious and highly skilled technologists. While leading the team of technologists and managing lab resources, you will also draw from your technical experience and partner with staff to develop solutions addressing complex challenges within their projects. You will have responsibility for safe operations and ES&H management. You will have responsibility for competency management, staffing, and career development of the team fostering the skills and knowledge of each technologist to help grow the capabilities in the labs to support the mission.

You will be expected to partner with staff and management to quickly come up to speed on sponsor mission needs and organizational goals. Using that understanding and seeking input from lab staff and subject matter experts, you will make decisions influencing resourcing and the technical approach to new or complex problems. You will also be the primary contact for the lab’s customers, prioritizing project work, collaborating with support staff, and be expected to navigate challenges such as competing priorities and execution challenges in an honest and respectful way.

The position may require travel to related labs in the community to learn about complementary or emerging capabilities. While understanding existing capability is important, it is just as critical to look to future capability needs to meet our customers’ mission requirements associated with emerging technology challenges.

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

• Apply specialized knowledge and experience to independently judge alignment of results with customer expectations.

• Provide updates via oral or written communication methods.

• Interact with all levels of internal and external customers in an effective manner.

• Guide multidisciplinary teams and deliver results.

Qualifications We Require:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

• (Equivalent experience in lieu of degrees must be engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.)

• Plus, five or more years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job.

• Previous experience leading a team and/or owning/leading safe laboratory activity level work.

• Active DOE Q or DoD TS Security Clearance.

• The ability to obtain and maintain a DOE SCI clearance, which may require a polygraph test.

Qualifications We Desire:

Ideally, your background will also include some of the following:

• Preferred Master's degree in Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM field, but not required.

• At least 5 years’ experience in a laboratory environment

• At least 5 years’ experience with semiconductor processing, microelectronics, solder, or PCB packaging.

• You have experience with capability and facility management including sustainment, and lifecycle planning

• You have experience with laboratory operations management including environmental, safety, and health work planning and controls

• Ability to mentor employees on work tasks and organizational requirements.

• You have experience with organizing, prioritizing, and following through to completion on multiple tasks and projects.

• You have experience with building and leading effective working relationships.

• Willingness to travel.

• Active SCI Security Clearance.

About Our Team:

The Protective Technologies team, 5640, is the capability the nation depends on for research in advanced secure hardware systems analysis. Protective Technologies maintains state-of-the-art hardware testing and assessment capability. The capability enables national-level R&D in cyber defense, vulnerability analysis, and protective technologies to DoD, Nuclear Deterrence, and Other Government Agency missions.

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 and SCI access, both of which require US citizenship. SCI access may also require a polygraph examination. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain these levels of access 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.

Job ID: 691819