Senior/Principal Systems Engineer - Equipment Lifecycle Management (ELM) Team, Onsite

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We are seeking an Engineering and Operations Systems Engineer to provide systems-engineering expertise in support of asset management for mission-critical operations across Centers 7400 and 7500 (Neutron Generator & Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise, Power Sources Technology Group, Explosives Technology Group, Advanced Produce Realization, and CAMINO). You will leverage systems thinking and established algorithmic evaluation of equipment health given a multivariable landscape, diverse infrastructure needs and conditions, and complex, high-value support of various missions. Use systems-engineering approaches, objective risk/opportunity evaluations, and rigorous data integrity to drive recapitalization and sustainment decisions on a rolling basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Employ structured systems-engineering methods to model interactions among equipment, infrastructure, and enabling systems, ensuring integrated solutions aligned with mission objectives.
• Document and track component- and system-level performance requirements; develop acceptance criteria, verification plans, and evidentiary packages.
• Apply algorithm-governed risk/opportunity evaluations to assess equipment health, maintenance needs, and recapitalization urgency and viability.
• Develop and maintain a rolling 5-year recapitalization and enabling-infrastructure roadmap, updated annually, in alignment with budget constraints and strategic mission priorities.
• Identify, document, and coordinate requirements for infrastructure improvements needed to enable equipment capability and operational readiness.
• Ensure data integrity and traceability across programmatic assets, maintenance, and financial systems by identifying gaps, defining corrective actions, and maintaining audit trails.
• Collaborate with project managers, engineers, equipment owners/users, maintenance organizations, facilities teams, finance, and leadership to define integrated system requirements, multi-year schedules, and resource-loaded budgets.
• Document and track project risks; interface with stakeholders to develop and implement mitigation and contingency plans.
• Perform high-level analysis, testing, and verification of system functionality to confirm compliance with performance requirements.
• Interface with customers and system implementation teams to ensure deliverables meet operational needs and user expectations.
• Develop deployment and logistics plans; prepare training materials and documentation to support system handover and sustainment.

Due to the nature of work, successful candidate must be able to work onsite.

$102,400 - $199,700

*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.

• 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.
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q level security clearance
• Knowledge of systems engineering development tools, techniques, and management.
• Ability to partner with customers and technically direct the efforts of a cross-disciplinary team.
• Ability to review and understand end-to-end work processes.
• Ability to work closely with customers and suppliers to define expectations and mutual responsibilities.

• Master's degree in a relevant discipline
• Experience supporting high-consequence, mission-critical operations and/or complex manufacturing, energetic materials, power-source technologies, neutron generator operations, or similar environments.
• Familiarity with reliability and maintenance concepts (condition-based maintenance, criticality, failure modes, obsolescence, sustainment planning).
• Experience working with enterprise data systems (asset databases, maintenance management systems, financial systems) and improving data-quality governance.
• Experience with capital planning and recapitalization processes, including multi-year road-mapping and budget formulation.
• Training or certification in systems engineering management (e.g., INCOSE CSEP) or project management (e.g., PMP) is advantageous.
• Good understanding of the customers, the concept of operations for the system, and the mission capabilities and characteristics of the system.
• Ability to model behaviors that reflect Sandia's core values.

The 7573-2 team coordinates equipment needs across multiple missions, and leads projects through specifications development, procurement, and characterization of equipment. Our team supports a wide range of complexity in equipment specifications and tool functionality. Including custom tools needed to support design and production functionality for Explosives Technologies, Power Source Technology, and Neutron Generator missions. In this role, you will help ensure Sandia's mission organizations can sustain and modernize critical equipment capabilities, using consistent, defensible, and transparent methods to:

• Improve prioritization of maintenance and recapitalization investments
• Align equipment strategy with mission objectives and constrained budgets
• Strengthen leadership decision-making through trusted data and clear communication
• Reduce operational risk from aging and complex infrastructure

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 posting date at any time.

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