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Sandia National Laboratories · 1 week ago

Senior/Principal Electronics Engineer - High Assurance Product Realization, NM/CA, Onsite

Livermore, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$114K/yr - $228K/yr

5+ years exp

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. They are seeking an experienced Electronics Engineer to design, develop and support high assurance electronic products, playing a key role in the development and deployment of advanced technologies for next-generation weapon systems. The role involves collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams and requires onsite work in either NM or CA.

GovernmentInformation TechnologyNational Security

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Playing a key role in development, maturation, and deployment of advanced technologies for next-generation weapon systems and support equipment

Working with multi-disciplinary teams of electrical, mechanical, software, systems, and test engineers in the design and qualification of products

Design of FPGA/ASIC based digital and analog circuits, and integration with commercial off the shelf microcontrollers, memories, and peripherals using existing standards-based communications protocols

Collaborating with and advising technologists who work in a lab environment

Qualification

Electrical EngineeringAnalog Circuit DesignDigital Circuit DesignFPGA/ASIC DesignVHDLMatlabLabVIEWCryptography DesignEnvironmental TestingConfiguration ManagementDebuggingCommunication SkillsTeam Collaboration

Required

A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development

Ability to acquire a DOE Q level security clearance

Preferred

Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation)

Demonstrated experience with analog and digital circuit design and analysis

Hands-on experience testing and de-bugging circuitry, with clear mastery of tools such as oscilloscopes, logic/network/spectrum analyzers, function/pulse generators, etc

Proven experience with design and analysis tools (e.g., Matlab and LabVIEW), analog simulation codes (e.g., LTSpice), and HDL simulation codes (e.g., ModelSim)

Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams

Experience with at least one electrical software tools such as VHDL, Mentor Graphics, ORCAD, Altium Designer, Cadence PSPICE, etc

Experience with cryptography hardware and firmware design

Experience in VHDL, Verilog, C, C++, and/or custom ASIC design

Electrical and environmental qualification testing and documentation experience

Experience in production processes and design for manufacturability

Experience with JMP, MATLAB, or other data aggregation and statistical analysis toolsets

Experience with configuration management tools

Nuclear Weapon and/or Use Control design experience. Or an understanding of the history of the Nuclear Weapons complex

Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams