Cleared Senior​/Principal Systems Engineer - Mobile Guardian Transport, Onsite

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The Mobile Guardian Transporter (MGT) Project Management and System Engineering Org 06765 is seeking an energetic, results‑oriented, and dedicated System Engineer. The selected candidate will collaborate with our design and system qualification teams to plan and execute verification of design requirements. You can expect to be engaged to lead or participate in challenging issue resolution as the project moves into the design qualification phase.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to achieve as an individual and team contributor and gain new skills. The Mobile Guardian Transporter (MGT) program is baselined to meet First Production Unit (FPU) in 2029. Join us to develop creative solutions to unique national security challenges!

• Maintain the baseline for system‑level documentation including requirements, environments, interface control, and CONOPs
• Coordinate and support preparations of project reviews; review guidance, technical review and presentations
• Execute requirements compliance assessments and lead/support non‑compliance resolution/disposition
• Work across teams on system and subsystem issues and assessments
• Collaborate with Design, System Qualification and Quality teams to refine requirements verification approaches and support qualification activities
• Generate verification reports as qualification events complete, track verification status
• Participate in critical project processes (baseline, change control, nonconformance, etc.)
• Define and provide status of system engineering activities
• Specialty engineering coordination:
  Safety, Trust, Vulnerability, Cyber, Reliability, Parts, Materials and Processes, Surveillance, and Human Factors
• Engage with a broad range of internal Sandia organizational partners, including Weapon Systems, test and analysis groups, and the Production Agency

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

$114,000 - $227,500

* 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.

• 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.
• Active DOE Q or DOD TS clearance

The ideal R&D S&E, Systems Engineering candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Engineering or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Experience working with Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) laboratories and plants including Pantex, Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLNL) and…