Sandia mechanical engineers design and develop advanced components and systems for national-defense programs, homeland security, and other applications.
Mechanical Engineering Openings
- R&D S&E, Mechanical Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- R&D S&E, Mechanical Engineer, Interconnects (Experienced)
- A&E Projects Product Design Engineer (Experienced)
- W87 Program Product Design Engineer (Mid-Career)
- Product Design Engineer - Mechanical Design (Early Career)
- W80-4/B61-12 JTA Mechanical Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- Metrologist (Early Career)
- Computer Aided Design Technologist (Experienced)
- R&D Mechanical Engineer (Experienced)
- Engineering Program & Project Lead for MCA (Early/Mid-Career)
- Computer Aided Design Technologist (Experienced)
- Navigation, Controls and Signal Processing Engineers (Center 5300) (Ex...
- A&E Computer Aided Design and Drafting Technologist (Experienced )
- Multiscale Modeling - Computer Science (Experienced)
- Test Operations - Energetic Component Environmental Conditioning and D...
- R&D Electrical Engineer (Experienced)
- R&D Electrical Engineering - Electronic Security and Remote Weapons Sy...
- R&D Mechanical Engineer - Mechanical Analyst (Early/Mid-Career)
- W87 Computer Aided Design and Drafting Technologist (Mid-Career)
- JTA Electrical Engineer, R&D Electrical Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- R&D Systems Engineer - Physical Security (Experienced)
- Intern - MEMS Technologies - R&D Graduate Year-Round
- R&D Test Engineer - Inertial Sensors (Experienced)
- Mechanical Engineer - Facilities (Experienced)
- Mechanical 3D CAD Design Engineer (Experienced)
- W80-1/W84 Mechanical Systems Engineer (early/mid-career)
- W80-4 EAA Mechanical Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- W80-4 Systems Engineer - Assembly/Disassembly (early/mid-career)
- Lead Mechanical Engineer (Experienced)
- R&D S&E, Mechanical Engineer (Early/Mid Career)
- Mechanical Designer/Drafter (Experienced)
- W80-4 Data Recorder Mechanical Engineer (Experienced)
- Mechanical Designer/Drafter (Early/Mid-Career)
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Mechanical engineers at Sandia work on design, analysis, manufacturing, and test activities in many areas, including nuclear weapons and power, renewable energy, intelligent machines, robotics, pulsed power, missile defense, remote sensing, advanced manufacturing, and micro- and nanosystems. Sandia mechanical engineers are an integral part of multidisciplinary teams that employ state-of-the-art technologies, such as sophisticated software tools for design, analysis, modeling, and simulation; micro- and nanotechnologies; and advanced materials, materials processing, and fabrication.
Our mechanical engineers support Sandia’s mission organizations with fabrication, assembly, testing, materials technology, and process development services. For example, Sandia mechanical engineers have provided flight hardware for various satellite programs, boosters and targets for the Missile Defense Agency, and aerodynamically controlled hypersonic glide bodies and their respective boosters for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command. They also analyze and field-test penetration systems for various Department of Defense customers.
Key areas for mechanical engineers at Sandia
- Applied mechanics
- Modeling and simulation
- Conceptual and mechanical design definition
- Material selection and fabrication oversight
- Stress, dynamic, and thermal analysis
- System assembly and infrastructure analysis
- Product integration during field testing
- Heat transfer and fluid mechanics, including microfluidics
- Destructive/nondestructive testing