Many of Sandia's aerospace engineers work side-by-side with mechanical, electrical, software and systems engineers as well as material scientists and project managers on collaborative programs. The following is a small sample of aerospace engineering related disciplines at Sandia (MS and PhD levels):

• Applied aerodynamics: aerodynamic modeling for flight vehicle design and analysis (subsonic, transonic, supersonic, hypersonic)
• Experimental aerodynamics and compressible gas dynamics (including activities in Sandia's two wind tunnels: the Trisonic Wind Tunnel and the Hypersonic Wind Tunnel)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): for aerospace applications (focused on external compressible gas flows)
• Dynamics: modeling and simulation of multi-body dynamics (flexible and rigid bodies) of aerospace systems (e.g., rockets, missiles, spacecraft, etc.)
• Flight Mechanics: modeling and simulation of atmospheric and sub-orbital, exo-atmospheric flight of aerospace systems
• Range Safety: Probabilistic modeling and simulation of complex aerospace flight systems (typically rocket based flight tests) to assess risk to facilities and property as well as casualty expectation predictions to test participants and the public.
• Aerothermodynamics and High Temperature Material Thermal Response: aerodynamic heating and thermal protection system response
• Navigation, Guidance and Control: autopilot design, flight software development, hardware in the loop simulation, enhanced GPS navigation solutions, avionics and flight computer systems, control systems, etc. of aerospace flight systems
• Structural Design and Analysis of Aerospace Systems: includes structural loads design and structural dynamics response (rigid and flexible bodies)
• Flight Vehicle Design: Exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric flight systems design, testing and manufacturing (prototypes and limited ground/flight test units)
• Flight Test Range Operations
• Spacecraft Systems Design
• Rocket Systems: solid motor performance and systems design associated with multi-stage sounding rockets and guided missile systems
• Aerospace Materials: research & development and applications of materials for aerospace systems (two focus areas: 1) lightweight structures, 2) high-temperature materials)
• Systems Analysis for aerospace systems
• Systems Engineering of aerospace systems
• Project Management of aerospace systems

For these positions, we desire candidates with a minimum of a MS in Aerospace , Aeronautical Engineering or equivalent; a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. The ability to obtain a DOE clearance is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Sandia National Laboratories' Defense Systems & Assessments has bioengineering and biotechnology activity in the area of analytical research on Biological WMD relationships to weapon systems, weapon system components, and technical weapons development. A PhD level background in biology and related medical disciplines are needed for these positions. In addition, a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills are also desired. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Sandia National Laboratories' Defense Systems & Assessments has bioengineering and biotechnology activity in the area of analytical research on Biological WMD relationships to weapon systems, weapon system components, and technical weapons development. A PhD level background in biology and related medical disciplines are needed for these positions. In addition, a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Chemical engineering professionals at Sandia National Laboratories work on a variety of projects, on numerous multidisciplinary teams and in multiple organizations across the company, including analyzing topical areas across the broad spectrum of nuclear weapons development and delivery. Analytic topics span the entire process from nuclear fuel cycle processes to nuclear weaponization and delivery system functionality. Inherent in understanding these topics is understanding the science and technology underpinning the nuclear fuel cycle, weapons development, weaponization, and delivery system functionality. Many of these underpinnings are based in the chemistry of the processes, the chemistry of the materials, the chemistry of material compatibility issues, and understanding material properties and what makes these properties degrade. Further chemistry is fundamental to understanding the signatures of the processes and materials. Consequently, chemistry is one of the fundamental sciences that underpins much of the weapons and proliferation analysis program.

For these positions, we desire candidates with a minimum of a MS in Chemical Engineering or equivalent; a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Sandia National Laboratories' employs chemistry professionals on a variety of projects, on numerous multidisciplinary teams and in multiple organizations across the company. While these individuals tackle a variety of assignments on a daily basis, below is a general list of examples.

• Analyze topical areas across the broad spectrum of nuclear weapons development and delivery. Analytic topics span the entire process from nuclear fuel cycle processes to nuclear weaponization and delivery system functionality. Inherent in understanding the these topics is understanding the science and technology underpinning the nuclear fuel cycle, weapons development, weaponization, and delivery system functionality. Many of these underpinnings are based in the chemistry of the processes, the chemistry of the materials, the chemistry of material compatibility issues, and understanding material properties and what makes these properties degrade. Further chemistry is fundamental to understanding the signatures of the processes and materials. Consequently, chemistry is one of the fundamental sciences that underpins much of the weapons and proliferation analysis program.
• Conduct research and development at the interface between biology, synthetic chemistry, and surface science to deliver prototype solutions in diverse applications.

For these positions, we desire candidates with a minimum of a MS in Chemistry or equivalent; a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Computer Scientists and Computer Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories work on a variety of projects, participate on numerous multidisciplinary teams and are employed in multiple organizations across the company. While these individuals tackle a variety of assignments on a daily basis, below is a general list of examples.

• Perform cutting edge applied research used to develop prototypical applications and first-of-a-kind solutions for our customers
• Design, build, deploy, and enhance information systems that transform data to information to knowledge to decisions
• Develop unique technical solutions and provide ongoing software improvements
• Develop, implement, and test software for embedded and real time systems.
• Develop and evaluate high level network architectures for data distribution and control using the latest software architecture patterns for systems and networks (OSI-7-Layers and Observer Patterns) as well as implementation and test design using the latest software engineering tools and practices, such as UML 2.0 case tools employing use case and sequence diagrams.
• Provide leadership in ongoing business development
• Perform system and component security assessment, software reverse engineering, software and hardware computer security tool development, network protocol analysis, and information assurance white paper development
• Conduct leading edge information technology research in areas such as distributed computing, high performance computing, computational math, intelligent agents, graphic and visualization, network security and collaborative technologies
• Develop advanced detection, classification and localization algorithms for use in distributed arrays of collaborating and networked sensors
• Conduct “bits and bytes” operating systems level research
• Develop cyber security technology solutions to protect a large, complex IT architecture from malicious attack and fraudulent use. These solutions would involve firewalls, intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment, cryptography, forensics, encryption, authentication and access/identity management
• Conduct forensics, live analysis, reverse engineering, intrusion detection, and incident response to identify cyber attacks and remediate their effect.
• Develop web-based corporate applications
• Design Service Oriented Architecture solutions for customers.
• Radio frequency communications: modulation techniques, RF system design, RF circuit design; digital design: embedded software, digital FPGA design, digital hardware; radar systems: system design and radar techniques. Design challenges include: highly miniaturized electronics, low power, efficient transceivers, signal extraction in very low S/N environments.

For these positions, we desire candidates with a minimum of a MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent; a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Electrical Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories work on a variety of projects, participate on numerous multidisciplinary teams and are employed in multiple organizations across the company. While these individuals tackle a variety of assignments on a daily basis, below is a general list of examples.

• Inerital navigation system design, test and calibration
• Sensor design and integration
• Radar design, miniature custom communication devices, and communication systems for satellite programs.
• Design and assessment of the performance of digital, analog and electromechanical circuitry.
• Development of high-performing RF transmitters, receivers, and digital signal processors.
• Develop technologies that support the delivery of integrated microsystems to a diverse customer base with components from Sandia's microsystems organizations and commercial suppliers.
• Research, develop, and deliver new packaging technologies required to integrate a diverse set of components including micromachines, advanced photonics, microsensors, RF devices and analog & digital integrated circuits.
• Design and fabricate custom packages, and develop robust packaging processes to enable the delivery of highly-reliable microsystems to customers.
• Develop novel integrated Microsystems that can sense, think, act, and communicate.
• Conduct research and development for advanced micro-electromechanical systems that push the technology envelope for national security applications and develops and maintains a core set of MEMS fabrication processes and technologies.
• Signal Processing Engineering, which includes performing analysis, high-level system design, trade-off studies, and requirements definition for radar, communications, and geolocation systems; developing mathematical models, perform simulations, and develop signal-processing techniques for radio frequency (rf) systems, including radar, communications, and geolocation systems; developing and applying waveform designs modulations, data formats, and error-correction encoding schemes; developing, implementing, and prove-in algorithms for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation, SAR interferometry (IFSAR), moving-target indicator (MTI), and radar-tag modes; defining and performing experiments to analyze and improve existing RF systems and to demonstrate new concepts.
• Analyze RF and radar-cross-section data to predict system, subsystem, and component performance.
• System Engineering, RF/Microwave design, digital design
• Design, modeling and analysis
• Field support
• Delivery of qualified components (QC1 and sponsored-defined flight qualification)
• Supporting Sandia's mission organizations with fabrication, assembly, testing, materials technology, and process development services.

For these positions, we desire candidates with a minimum of a MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent; a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Professionals with engineering science disciplines at Sandia National Laboratories work on a variety of projects, participate on numerous multidisciplinary teams and are employed in multiple organizations across the company. While these individuals tackle a variety of assignments on a daily basis, below is a general list of examples.

• Work with Sandia experimentalists to discover the underlying physics and to validate computational models.
• Conduct research, develop, and apply experimental, analytical, and computational mechanics capabilities for the Laboratories.
• Work with a dynamic team of researchers, numerical methods developers, math model developers, experimental scientists and analysts working to solve challenging multiphysics problems.
• Identify, develop, and integrates experimental, analytical, and computational technologies that can be applied to improve the manufacture, design, and qualification of advanced engineering systems.

For these positions, we desire candidates with a minimum of a MS in Engineering Science or equivalent; a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Sandia National Laboratories' Defense Systems & Assessments' national security missions rely extensively on Applied Materials Science, which is, making things rather than conducting research. Our needs range from structural materials such as metals, ceramics, and composites to electronics and photonics. Polymeric materials such as adhesives, foams, encapsulants, and conformal coatings are used extensively. Expertise in joining technologies, soldering, thermal management, sensor materials, dielectrics, and tribology are other areas of interest.

Material Science professionals in Sandia's Science and Technology and Research Foundations perform additional activities, such as: performing fundamental materials research focusing on the discovery, characterization and exploitation of properties and structures; applying microstructural, analytical chemistry and surface analysis techniques to characterize materials, components, and processes for service, research, and project support and working on interdisciplinary teams that investigate fundamental materials properties, answer cutting-edge scientific questions, and develop new materials with enhanced performance properties.

For these positions, we desire candidates with a minimum of a MS in Material Science or equivalent. Candidates must be able to conduct research, bridge research and development with application and like to build systems, do hands-on work, be creative and want to work on important national security projects. In addition, a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills is desired. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

During a program's lifecycle contributions from many aspects within the mechanical engineering discipline are often employed at Sandia National Laboratories, including conceptual design, mechanical design, material selection, stress/dynamic/thermal analysis, design definition, design for manufacturability and fabrication oversight, component testing, system assembly, flight certification testing, and product integration during field testing. The following list is also additional activities that our mechanical engineering professionals support:

• Provide boosters and targets for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
• Provide aerodynamically controlled hypersonic glide bodies and their respective boosters for the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command
• Provide flight hardware for various satellite programs
• Analyze and conduct field testing of penetration systems for various DOD customers.
• Design, modeling and analysis
• Delivery of qualified components (QC1 and sponsored-defined flight qualification)
• Supporting Sandia's mission organizations with fabrication, assembly, testing, materials technology, and process development services.

For these positions, we desire candidates with a minimum of a MS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent; a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Nuclear engineering professionals at Sandia National Laboratories work on a variety of projects, participate on numerous multidisciplinary teams and are employed in multiple organizations across the company. While these individuals tackle a variety of assignments on a daily basis, below is a general list of examples.

• Design, develop, and test nuclear equipment and systems
• Monitor testing, operation, and maintenance of nuclear reactors
• Conduct research on new materials of special interest in nuclear reactors
• Makes studies related to the detection and control of radiation and radioactive contaminants for safety and nonproliferation activities
• Analyze overall nuclear weapons development process, including requirements definition, design, analysis, prototyping, and system testing nuclear weapon design, development, and integration; nuclear materials and properties; and nuclear fuel cycle facilities and operations; studies nuclear fuel cycle to define most economical uses of material and safest means of waste products disposal.
• Providing system engineering and integration for nuclear weapons and associated support equipment from concept development through stockpile support and dismantlement
• Providing engineering design, components, subsystems and integration support and nuclear information systems
• Ensuring the compatibility and operational readiness of our nation's nuclear weapons with their delivery systems
• Finding, evaluating and responding to problems in the stockpile and providing data and information that supports the Annual Assessment of the Stockpile.

For these positions, we desire candidates with a minimum of a MS in Nuclear Engineering or equivalent; a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Sandia National Laboratories' Science and Technology and Research Foundation disseminates research results by leading the writing of technical papers in prestigious scientific journals and by presenting at national and international conferences, conducts research in a collaborative, team-based environment, requiring regular interactions with other Sandia staff, management, the external technical community, and customers and provides a multidisciplinary team environment that delivers innovative research programs for multiple internal and external customers. Physic disciplines are utilized in this area to work as a team members in multi-disciplinary groups conducting research in high density, molecular, plasma, pulsed power, radiation and surface physics, contribute to the development of the world's most advanced pulsed-power-accelerator technology.

For these positions, we desire candidates with a minimum of a MS in Physics or equivalent; a stellar academic record for any/all degrees received; excellent written and verbal communication skills, including development/delivery of presentations, proposals, and reports; strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership/delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict resolution, and coaching/mentoring; creative technical and critical thinking, as well as analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. The ability to obtain a DOE Q clearance and possibly additional clearances is required.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.

Because our scientists and technical staff members work on a variety of projects, participate on numerous multidisciplinary teams and are employed in multiple organizations across the company, our employees have a variety of degrees and in a variety of disciplines. While this list of disciplines is not inclusive, it does represent a large number of our employee's backgrounds. The intent of this information is only to provide a general idea of work being done in each discipline. If you are currently pursuing a MS or PhD in a science or technical discipline that you do not see listed, we encourage you to still consider applying for the program. If you are selected for the event, you will have an opportunity to explore opportunities and work being done in your specific area.

Interested candidates must apply online to reference 61125.