Cleared Experienced RD Systems Engineer - ISA Data Management Lead

What Your Job Will Be Like

The opportunity exists for an experienced R&D Systems Engineer to lead Integrated Surety Architectures (ISA) data management activities. The ISA program has qualified multiple systems in recent years and is currently executing over-the-road missions supporting the secure transportation of nuclear weapons. The effort to prepare for use, accept, transport, return, and re-accept ISA hardware spans multiple agencies across the Nuclear Security Enterprise, from Sandia to the Hub, and the Office of Secure Transportation. The ISA Data Management Lead will provide technical leadership for integrating and streamlining interrelated but disparate mission, engineering, configuration, test, surveillance, and operational data into a common data environment, including DataSEA, to support current and future secure transportation activities. The lead will partner with digital engineering, ISA, weapon system, surveillance, and software teams to develop scalable analysis tools and automated workflows that improve how mission data are organized, evaluated, visualized, and used for engineering decisions.

The role will also lead the integration of mission data with model-based systems engineering and digital-engineering approaches, including system architecture, state models, and analytical workflows that relate system requirements, configuration, and observed performance. These efforts support weapon systems currently implementing ISA, including W88 Alt 940 and B61-12/13, while establishing scalable approaches for future systems such as W93 Alt 950 and emerging ISA technologies. The integration of mission-data sources, analytical tools, automation methods, governance practices, system models, and technology roadmaps is captured in the ISA Data Management Plan, which is maintained and revised as the program evolves.

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

• Serve as the technical point of contact for ISA mission-data architecture, governance, analysis, software and tool development, automation, and digital-engineering integration across multidisciplinary ISA teams
• Lead continued development, implementation, and maturation of the ISA data-management strategy and technical roadmap
• Partner across Sandia (e.g. weapon systems, secure transportation, data engineers), the Nuclear Security Enterprise (e.g. KCNMO, the Hub), and the Office of Secure Transportation to lead and implement the ISA data management strategy
• Provide technical direction to digital engineers to develop analysis tools, automation tools, and explore artificial intelligence implementation
• Lead the Mission Data Working Group; analyze and assess system state of health, identify and investigate anomalies, and coordinate analysis activities.
• Coordinate with subsystem surveillance engineers and program data representatives to ensure mission observations, anomalies, configuration changes, test results, and state-of-health assessments are consistently captured and available for broader ISA analysis
• Integrate mission data with model-based system engineering and state modeling activities, which utilizes system requirements plus performance data to validate mission data and support troubleshooting
• Revise and release the ISA master data management plan annually

Salary Range:

$117,500 - $235,700

*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.

Qualifications We Require:

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline plus five or more years of 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 clearance

Qualifications We Desire:

The ideal R&D S&E Systems Engineer 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 Kansas City National Security Campus/New Mexico Operations (KCNSC/NMO)
• Experience working on engineering design, qualification, production, or related modeling/simulation projects
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams

Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:

• Experience successfully leading multidisciplinary technical efforts or coordinating work across systems engineering, analysis, software, digital engineering, test, or program teams
• Experience with data architecture, metadata management, database systems, or enterprise data platforms, such as DataSEA
• Experience with model-based system engineering tools, such as Simulink, Stateflow, and System Composer
• Proficiency with MATLAB and/or other engineering analysis and automation tools
• Experience developing or guiding automated engineering or analysis workflows
• Experience with the application of AI-enabled tools to engineering analysis, documentation, or software development
• Understanding of the data architecture, governance, security, validation, and human oversight needed to support future AI-assisted engineering capabilities
• Experience with secure transportation systems i.e. Safeguards Transporter
• Experience with Integrated Surety Architectures hardware e.g. trailer modules, Multiapplication Transportation Attachment Device, Alt hardware
• Experience with nuclear weapons development, testing, and/or production qualification activities
• Experience with nuclear weapons engineering documentation e.g. engineering authorizations, drawing definition, PRIME
• Experience in successfully developing productive relationships within the Nuclear Security Enterprise such as NNSA, management, senior management, nuclear deterrence systems organizations, digital engineering organizations, transportation (e.g. SGT) organizations
• Proven ability to communicate through both written (e.g. writing delivered documentation) and verbal (e.g. giving presentations) avenues
• Ability to work onsite full-time
• Active DOE Q-level security clearance

About Our Team:

The Special Projects department was established to focus on the successful deployment of Integrated Surety Architectures (ISA) applications for reentry body and air delivered systems into the transportation safeguards system embodied by the Safeguards Transporter (SGT). The organization serves as the ISA project integration office at Sandia to the NNSA enterprise for over the road (OTR) applications. Currently, there are two major ISA efforts underway at SNL for ALT 940 and the Multi-application Transportation Attachment Device (MTAD) for air delivered systems. As such, the organization interacts extensively with the NW development and stockpile systems capabilities within the laboratory in addition to the transportation safeguards program.

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the post