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Manager, R&D Science and Engineering

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Sandia National Laboratories

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United States , Albuquerque

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Research and Development

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163700.00 - 278000.00 USD / Year
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Job Description:

The Surety Engineering Group II is seeking a proactive and skilled Manager for R&D Science and Engineering. This leadership role is pivotal in directing a team of Surety System Engineers who are responsible for developing and implementing innovative strategies aimed at successful product prototyping, qualification, and realization.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead and Integrate: Guide your team as they collaborate across multiple enterprises, ensuring the seamless integration of multidisciplinary technology areas to enhance project outcomes
  • Mentor and Empower: Foster a culture of critical thinking by mentoring staff to identify, assess, and mitigate risks. You will promote the practical application of defect prevention strategies to ensure the development of safe, reliable, and robust products
  • Drive Initiatives: Influence cross-cut technology areas and contribute to corporate initiatives, such as the Common Engineering Environment Technical Quality pillar, addressing challenges from components to subsystems and entire systems
  • Collaborate Across the Labs: Work closely with peers and partners throughout Sandia National Laboratories and the broader Nuclear Security Enterprise community, including all eight sites and the NNSA, to ensure cohesive project execution
  • Engage in Team Dynamics: Be an integral part of a diverse team of ten cohesive departments, collaborating on coordinated hiring and responding swiftly to emerging technical issues. Our leadership team is committed to a prevention and service ethos, with a strong focus on staff development

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and eight (8) 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-level (or DOD equivalent) security clearance required to start

Nice to have:

  • Two or more years of demonstrated leadership experience
  • A graduate degree in science or engineering (MS or Ph.D.)
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills in developing trusting relationships with peers, staff, management, customers, and stakeholders
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the development and delivery of presentations, proposals, reports and documentation
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Sigma 14 and Sigma 15 access
  • Management experience in an R&D organization and/or Nuclear Deterrence technical leadership experience
  • Leading and managing R&D engineering projects through complexity, exercising flexibility and technical discernment
  • Experience and success in recruiting, hiring, mentoring and leading technical staff
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver results and effectively lead/guide multidisciplinary teams engaged in visionary, groundbreaking work
  • Influencing technical decisions and delivery without direct authority
  • Set accountability, managing conflict, eliciting solutions
  • The ability to build strong, trust-based teaming relationships with peers, customers, and partners with different needs and agendas
  • Identifying and reducing technical risk in a high-consequence environment
  • experience applying risk-based approaches to evaluate rigor level of product qualification activities
  • Social acuity and emotional intelligence
  • the ability to anticipate and resolve ambiguous and contentious issues with differing technical points of view through crucial conversations
  • Experience in systems engineering principles and practices, with a strong understanding of the product realization lifecycle, including requirements definition, design, development, testing, and deployment of complex systems
  • Implementing R&D surety engineering principles, tools, methodologies, and best direction
  • Understanding of the development and execution of qualification plans, requirements maps, test plans, and measurement assurance plans
  • An ability to solve sophisticated technical problems in the absence of clear direction (experience in ambiguous environments)
  • An ability to understand and evaluate diverse and incomplete data sets and draw appropriate engineering conclusions
What we offer:
  • 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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 08, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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