Early Career Data Scientist - Mission Systems Analysis, Onsite

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Sandia National Laboratories seeks an enthusiastic early career data scientist to join our collaborative team in supporting key systems to deliver GEOINT capabilities to both the DOD and the IC. As a part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work on a range of exciting projects to develop and integrate solutions for key national security issues.

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

• Develop and apply foundational physics, sensing systems, and algorithmic understanding to high consequence systems. A strong existing understanding of classical and electromagnetic physics is critical to success in this position.
• Conduct varying technical duties, including modeling and simulation, data fusion, signal processing, cloud computing and data management and visualization.
• Assess current and future system mission performance through modeling, simulation, and analysis techniques, implementing software solutions to aid in said analyses.
• Troubleshoot issues with existing code and collaborate with colleagues to resolve technical challenges.
• Collaborate with other staff on both customer and internally funded projects.
• Summarize and present results to other staff and sponsors; help develop papers and briefings for publication.

This position must be able to work onsite at our main facility in Albuquerque, NM.

$99,400 - $193,600

*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, 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 a DOE Q/SCI clearance, which may require a polygraph examination.

The ideal R&D Data Science candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in a relevant computationally-intensive discipline where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Experience in developing software for enterprise and national security applications.
• Experience acquiring, preparing, and analyzing real world data.
• Demonstrated software development skills and familiarity with modern software development practices.
• Proven ability to work and communicate effectively in a collaborative and interdisciplinary team environment.

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

• Active DOE Q or DOD TS security clearance with SCI.
• Familiarity with multi-phenomenology analysis and simulation of sensing instrument performance.
• Experience with modeling, simulation, scientific computing and data analysis.
• Experience with Matlab, Python for C++.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • EO/IR remote sensing technologies
  • Modeling and simulation
  • Flight system disciplines
  • Signal/image processing and analysis

The Systems Mission Engineering Center (6300) organization provides real-time remote sensing solutions in space, ground, and other domains for actionable intelligence against threats to the nation. The Mission Engineering and Geospatial Analytics System Program Office (MEGASPO) supports many DOD and IC customers to design and integrate key national systems that strengthen national security. The strategic objective of Mission Engineering & Geospatial Data Analytics (6340) is to enable and optimize use of disparate geospatial data sources to provide actionable intelligence address threats to national security that are increasingly more complex. Group members develop new approaches and missions for current systems and expedite operationalizing new capabilities.

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.

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 and SCI access, both of which require US citizenship. SCI access may also require a polygraph examination. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain these levels of access 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 the DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

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