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 (Electronics Product Development and Prod...
- Concentrating Solar R&D Mechanical Engineer
- R&D S&E, Mechanical Engineer (Experienced)
- R&D Systems Engineering (Experienced)
- R&D Mechanical Engineer (Experienced)
- R&D Mechanical Engineer (Experienced)
- R&D Mechanical Modeling Engineer / Computational Analyst (Experienced)
- Product Design Engineer (Experienced)
- Product Design Engineer (Experienced)
- R&D Controls Scientist/Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- R&D S&E, Mechanical Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- General Technologist - Satellite-based Ground Systems Hardware (Experi...
- R&D Systems Engineer (Experienced)
- JTA Test Lead - R&D Systems Engineer (Experienced)
- JTA Electrical Engineer, R&D Electrical Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- JTA Deputy PRT Lead/W80-4 JTA WSE Lead (Experienced)
- R&D Semiconductor Process/Tools Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- R&D Electronics Engineer - Inertial Sensors Technology (Experienced)
- R&D S&E, Mechanical Engineer (Experienced)
- R&D Systems Engineer - System Analysis (Experienced)
- Navigation, Controls and Signal Processing Engineers (Center 5300) (Ex...
- Navigation, Controls and Signal Processing Engineers (Center 5300) (Ea...
- R&D Mechanical Engineer
- R&D Systems Engineer - Technical Project Lead (Experienced)
- R&D Systems Engineer - Z Facility Operations (Experienced)
- Electromechanical Technologist - Atmospheric Sciences
- R&D Mechanical Engineer (Experienced)
- MEMS Fabrication Technologies Integration Technologist (Early Career)
- R&D Systems Engineer (Experienced)
- R&D Systems Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- R&D Computer Science for Modeling and Simulation of Solid Mechanics
- R&D Semiconductor Process/Tools Engineer (Experienced)
- R&D Metallurgy / Mechanical Technologist (Experienced)
- R&D Mechanical Engineer
- R&D, Geoscientist (Experienced)
- R&D Laboratory Support Technologist (Early-Career)
- R&D Mechanical Engineer - Design, Research, Testing, and Development (...
- Mk21 Fuze Systems Engineer - Mechanical (Early/mid-career)
- Mk21 Fuze Systems Engineer - Mechanical (Early/mid-career)
- Facilities Mechanical Engineer (Mid-Career/Experienced)
- R&D Mechanical Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- Facilities Mechanical Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- Mechanical Systems Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- W87-1 Systems Engineer - Mechanical (Experienced)
- Telemetry Mechanical Engineer
- W87-1 Systems Engineer - Mechanical (Early/Mid-Career)
- R&D Mechanical Engineer (Early/Mid-Career)
- Systems Engineer - Mechanical (early/mid-career)
- Systems Engineer - Mechanical (Experienced)
- W80-4 Systems Engineer - Mechanical (Experienced)
- Machinist (CA) (Early Career)
- R&D Advanced & Exploratory Systems Engineer - Mechanical (Experienced)
- Telemetry Mechanical Engineer
- Electromechanical Technologist (Mid-Career/Experienced)
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