Senior/Principal E&O Systems Engineer, Onsite

As the E&O Systems Engineer, you will apply your expertise to execute multiple complex projects coordinating with principal investigators, subject matter experts, project teams, and sponsors to define requirements, scope, and deliverables. Your leadership will drive cross-team collaboration, resource optimization, and successful project execution.

• Collaborating with clients, negotiating project scopes, timelines, and deliverables, and working closely with experts from various technical fields.
• Proactively addressing challenges, developing solutions that meet the demanding requirements of both customers and internal stakeholders.
• Maintaining open communication with a broad range of customers, discussing project status, risks, issues, and other important matters.
• Contributing to and fostering a strong sense of community within the organization.
• Engaging with highly technical staff from varied professional backgrounds, participating in all project stages from planning and resource allocation to the final delivery of results, whether in written reports or large-scale experiments.
• Managing multiple projects simultaneously, balancing competing priorities within the same timeframe.
• Leading discussions with management to coordinate effective planning, workload distribution, funding, and staffing strategies.
• Organizing and overseeing technical projects with principal investigators, ensuring all stakeholders, both internal and external, are aligned for successful outcomes.
• Implementing and sustaining configuration management practices to optimize operational effectiveness and consistency.
• Providing tactical planning and direction for multidisciplinary teams to accomplish project objectives.
• Assisting customers with hardware resource management as needed.
• Organizing program reviews and delivering clear project updates, risk assessments, and outcomes through presentations, reports, and briefings.
• Collaborating with customers and those responsible for system development, testing, and implementation to ensure requirements and expectations are fully met.
• Developing customized project plans and coordinating resources to meet targets; working with business teams and principal investigators to track progress, managing scope changes, and enacting contingency plans within budget and schedule limits.
• Offering systems engineering leadership to ensure efficient attainment of project goals and deliverables, including the creation of innovative workflows and reporting tools that enhance status updates and communication with senior management and sponsors.
• Occasional travel will be required.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

Salary Range:

$102,400 - $199,700, Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) SCI security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). 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.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communication, Systems Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline, plus five or more years of pertinent experience aiding in the success of technical teams (or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and experience)
• Experience in implementing systems engineering and project management methodologies for technical assignments.
• Background in managing technical security projects, particularly those focused on identifying and addressing vulnerabilities.
• Active DOE Q and SCI clearance are required to start which may include a polygraph examination (or equivalent such as Active DOD Top Secret/SCI)., * Master¿s degree in Business, Communication, Systems Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities, along with effective presentation skills suitable for audiences at all organizational levels.
• Hands-on experience in developing and nurturing relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Knowledge and experience working with projects involving classified information.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to establish and sustain productive working relationships.
• Experience in environments focused on testing or delivering products.
• Solid understanding of vulnerability assessment methods and their practical application.
• Skilled in negotiation and issue resolution.
• Ability to recognize and implement strategies that enhance the quality of team output.
• Demonstrated skill in prioritizing work assignments and adapting to fluctuating activity levels as needed.
• Proven ability to optimize the use of SNL resources to drive technical team success, including:
• Effective engagement with Mission Services Center resources (such as Business Partners, Business Development) to accomplish organizational goals.
• Experience in building connections with key strategic collaborators (for example, USAF, DARPA, IARPA, internal technical groups like UCEC, NEA, or similar partners).
• Proficient in leveraging data and databases to identify and take advantage of trends, offering insights and guidance for technical and programmatic decisions.
• Demonstrated flexibility in working with a variety of client types and successfully integrating their expectations into team deliverables, including both internal and external stakeholders.
• Preferred qualifications include certifications such as INCOSE, PMP, or other relevant credentials.

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

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 vacation, 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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you motivated to protect national security? The Vulnerability Capability Unit (VCU) supports various communities both within SNL and externally to improve the security of their designs. The VCU focuses on complete systems, across the many technology boundaries of science and engineering. To inform their customers, VCU assessments include technical analysis, intelligence analysis, and experimentation that ranges in scale from laboratory to large scale.