Job Description

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking a team of interns, R&D Graduate Summer - Stockpile Systems Engineering Group CASSI, CA Onsite

The Sandia CA Stockpile Organization has established a Systems Summer Institute to engage graduate engineering students. The objective of the CASSI is to expose high potential engineering students into the challenging and rewarding world of stockpile stewardship through mentorship, technical projects, and professional development working at a national laboratory.

As a CASSI intern, you will be embedded in a Systems Engineering organization. Your responsibilities will be divided into three main thrusts. You will work closely with Sandia Stockpile Systems technical staff on challenging activities that are meaningful to our mission.

For the three main summer objectives, the first involves a joint effort to emphasize teaming by analyzing our stockpile sustainment data while generating and presenting a briefing on the results. Secondly, you will participate in the CASSI Seminar Series that highlights the background and context of the stockpile sustainment mission. The third objective is participation in systems engineering tasks in support of our Nuclear Deterrence Mission. As a graduate intern, you will be given autonomy and expected to fully contribute towards achieving our team deliverables and includes opportunities to lead the intern cohort regular meetings. In your daily work you will need to display and exercise mastery of your engineering skills, as well as excellent communication skills.

Consider joining our team if you:

• Want to spend 10 weeks at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA
• Want daily interaction with experienced system engineers
• Have passion for supporting our National Security mission

Salary Range:

At Sandia, we value the important work done by our interns and its contribution to National Security. Because of this, our interns earn competitive pay rates. Our pay structure is based on earned credit hours, classification, and degree level. Your pay rate will be determined during the hire process and included in your offer package. You can view the Intern Pay Rate chart here (https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/51/2024/01/Student-Rate-Sheet\_2024.pdf) .

Qualifications We Require:

You bring the confidence and skills to be eligible for the job by meeting these minimum requirements:

• Earned bachelor's degree
• Currently attending and enrolled full time in the spring term immediately preceding the internship (or scheduled to graduate in the spring) in an accredited science, engineering, or math graduate program
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0
• Ability to work up to 40 hours per week during the summer
• Ability to secure and maintatin a U.S. security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship

Note: If you have not yet started your graduate program, please apply to an undergraduate intern position.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Demonstrated experience with electrical, mechanical, or systems engineering tasks and responsibilities

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.

About Our Team:

The departments of the California Stockpile Systems Engineering Group have the following responsibilities:

• The W87-0 nuclear warhead, which is deployed on the U.S. Air Force (AF) Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)
• Integration of the W87-0 nuclear warhead with the USAF Sentinel Ballistic Missile
• The B83 strategic nuclear bomb, with the B-2 bomber as its delivery aircraft
• The W80-1 nuclear warhead, which is carried by the AF Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM), with the B-52 bomber as its delivery aircraft
• The Mk21 Fuze Systems Engineering is responsible for the design and production support of a replacement fuze for the Mk21 Reentry Vehicle, deployed on the Minuteman III ICBM. The responsibility also includes integrating the Mk21 Fuze Mod with the USAF Sentinel Ballistic Missile.

Along with the departments of the New Mexico Stockpile Systems Engineering Group, we have responsibilities for all the deployed nuclear weapon systems that provide our nation’s nuclear deterrence.

As part of our stewardship responsibility, we assess the systems each year to assure their continued ability to meet safety, security, and reliability requirements. Our findings create the technical basis for the annual assessment letter from the Sandia National Laboratories director to the U.S. government on the health of the nation’s nuclear stockpile.

Teams within our departments also undertake significant design, development, qualification, and production activities to ensure that the weapon systems continue to meet their design requirements, and develop new concepts to enhance system safety and security as requirements and the threat environment evolve.

Finally, when these weapon systems are no longer needed, our teams support dismantlement activities.

Our engineering departments work closely with the U.S. Air Force and Navy to support their operations, and collaborate with organizations across the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE). Internally, our teams collaborate with component and independent assessment teams, program offices, and science and technology organizations.

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.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Job ID: 694096

Job Family: 91

Regular/Temporary Position: T

Full/Part-Time Status: F