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Senior/Principal Aerospace Systems Engineer

United States, Albuquerque 117500.00 - 235700.00 USD / Year · Job Posted July 04, 2026
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Job Description

The Autonomy for Hypersonics and Navigation Warfare teams have need for an experienced systems engineer who applies integrated technical judgment to anticipate, innovate, and deliver solutions for multi-disciplinary aerospace system applications across low to medium technical readiness levels on efforts primarily aligned with autonomous navigation, guidance, and control of advanced flight systems.

Job Responsibility

  • Plan, conduct, and execute advanced autonomous system science and engineering programs within the spectrum of fundamental research, development, or demonstration with a focus on hypersonic systems and challenging operational environments
  • Working with the management team, external stakeholders, integrated product team (IPT) leads, and subsystem subject matter experts to negotiate and define the system requirements that enable mission function and performance
  • Defining the necessary subsystems, components, and interfaces to realize the system
  • Identifying test, validation and verification methods, developing acceptance criteria for the subsystems and system, and delivering Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) as needed
  • Interface with the internal and external system customers and those responsible for developing, testing, and implementing the system and its elements
  • Develop substantial technical understanding of the engineering products to be delivered as well as lead both technical and programmatic subcomponents of programs
  • Evaluate, participate in, or observe tests, and analyze system functionality and subsystem contributions to system functions
  • Work with the various subsystem teams to verify and validate complex requirements, often from a combination of analysis, observation, real and simulated environmental testing, and an understanding of essential functional performance needs
  • Manage technical and programmatic requirements, manage technical and non-technical risks and opportunities, and oversee project plan development and execution, for complex and high-rigor projects
  • Oversee processes and/or activities involving costs, schedules, and assured technical performance
  • Lead project engineering sub-teams while they support functions such as authoring and implementing project plans and procedures, estimating and managing costs, generating and overseeing integrated schedules

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
  • Plus, five years or more years of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job
  • Equivalent experience in lieu of degree must be directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the job
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance

Nice to have

  • 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
  • Master's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field
  • Multidisciplinary technical knowledge and competencies appropriate to the position
  • Ability to perform the integrated technical analyses that underpin the development of a realizable system concept
  • Ability to synthesize operational concepts for experimental or exploratory systems to innovate and deliver solutions to customers in mission areas not fully defined or understood
  • Thorough and demonstrated knowledge of and applied experience with systems engineering, scientific and multidisciplinary engineering methods and with the discipline's standards for the ethical conduct of research
  • Thorough and demonstrated knowledge of and experience with scoping, designing, planning, executing, and documenting research, design, and development projects
  • Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with implementing Sandia policies affecting research, design, and development activities, projects, or initiatives
  • Demonstrated ability to engage customers and stakeholders in the synthesis of significant systems experiments and to team across disciplines
  • Ability to model behaviors that reflect Sandia's core values
  • Ability to make decisions requiring scientific or engineering judgment across more than one field
  • Demonstrated experience in management of technical projects
  • Knowledge of and experience with standard project management practices such as scope management, project scheduling, and/or cost estimation and management
  • Knowledge of and experience with quality assurance, communications planning and management, risk and opportunity management, and procurement management
  • Experience with Navigation, Guidance, and/or Control Systems
  • Experience with Contested Environments and Operational Constraints
  • Experience with Aerospace System Design
  • Experience with Software Development
  • Experience with Systems Modeling and Simulation
  • Strong written and verbal communication, as well as technical and programmatic content presentation skills

What we offer

  • Challenging work with amazing impact
  • 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
  • Amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance
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