Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate:

Sandia demonstrates its commitment to public safety in the national interest by requiring that all new hires be fully vaccinated or have an approved medical or religious accommodation before commencing employment. The requirement also applies to those who are telecommuting and working virtually.

Any concerns about the ability to meet this requirement should be directed to HR Solutions at (505) 284-4700.

Salary Range:

$135,000 - $229,400

*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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

The Advanced Accelerator Physics department is seeking a world leading research engineer or physicist to join a dynamic team conducting pulsed power science, technology, and systems research. Our team will lead the development of the science, the technology maturation, and designs for the largest accelerator ever proposed, a >50 MA successor to Z, the Next Generation Pulsed Power (NGPP) facility. We are proceeding towards CD-0 mission approval at the NNSA. NGPP will be a frontier facility and will revolutionize what can be done for national security in the laboratory. We are also actively working on projects to improve performance on both the Z and Saturn accelerators. These are the largest and most capable pulsed power accelerators operating or being planned today! We are seeking a highly motivated and highly capable scientist or engineer to take leading responsibilities on the NGPP project and other opportunities as they arise.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Develop or invent next generation pulsed power drivers as “engines of discovery” for national security and high energy density physics

• Lead or collaborate with a diverse team of scientists, mechanical and electrical engineers, technicians, facilities engineers and architects from Sandia and industry, to design, build, and test new pulsed power components, systems, and facilities

• Propose and lead research efforts to rapidly evaluate high-risk high-reward concepts

• Develop suitable science and technology experiments and test beds at multiple scales to develop understanding or mature concepts for insertion/production

• Proficiently report progress to managers, senior management, executive management levels at Sandia, and at the NNSA.

• Assist the center in recruiting new talent, and in finding, qualifying, and selecting industrial partners.

• Publish results in premier peer-reviewed physics and engineering journals

  Although we prefer the selected applicant to work full time on site in Albuquerque, the selected applicant has the option to be a virtual worker located in any U.S. State or District of Columbia. Regular or periodic travel to Albuquerque will be required.

Qualifications We Require:

• A Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related field, with at least 12 or more years of experience in pulsed power system design and testing

• Substantial evidence of exceptional ability in the design and implementation of pulsed power systems will be required, such as project leadership on major pulsed power system design, publications of design in conference publications or journals (please include a list of publications in resume)

• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoE Q clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

• PhD in engineering, physics, or related field

• Ten years of comprehensive experience leading or contributing to multi-year, multi-disciplinary project teams to define and solve challenging, complex problems in state-of-the art laboratory pulsed power, at the largest scales

• Ten years of comprehensive experience in one or more of the following aspects of pulsed power: component design, integrated system design, simulation, fabrication and advanced materials, construction, operation, diagnostic characterization, data acquisition, or data analysis

• Intimate familiarity with the existing pulsed power literature, including gaps in our understanding and knowledge, and limitations. Familiarity with the important questions, risks, and uncertainties, and present knowledge gaps with a record of inventing solutions

• Excellent judgement in recommending solutions and new studies to resolve risks, uncertainties, gaps, as well as in assessing design tradeoffs to expand present capabilities and limits is required

• Experience leading large teams of electrical, mechanical, facilities engineers and technicians and should be comfortable interacting with, mentoring, and guiding technicians and staff, and providing recommendations to managers

About Our Team:

The Pulsed Power Accelerator Science and Technology Group (1650) invents, develops, builds, tests, and improves pulsed power systems for a wide range of national security missions for the country. We develop innovative pulsed power architectures for multiple missions requiring high voltages and high current accelerators. We are also developing the pulsed power science basis for energy storage, insulation, switching, and vacuum power flow. We will apply these developments to achieve increased performance from Z and to design next-generation drivers such as NGPP, which will enable advances in material sciences, x-ray sources, and inertial confinement fusion. We develop and support vacuum power flow modeling and diagnostics. We also manage Sandia's participation in the Advanced Sources and Detectors – Scorpius project, whose goal is deployment of a >20 MeV multi-pulse electron beam accelerator. Our state-of-the-art pulsed power machines include Z, Thor, Mykonos, Vulcan, and many small-scale devices.

About Sandia:

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 vacations, 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.

Security Clearance:

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, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance 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 DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

Job ID: 684584