Intern, R&D Undergradute Summer - Systems Engineering, Onsite

Sandia National Laboratories Internship

What Your Job Will Be Like: We are looking for a highly motivated undergraduate intern to assist in a wide variety of duties associated with systems engineering, electrical component testing, and electrical designs including mixed signal printed circuit board development. On any given day, the successful candidate may be called on to:

• Design electrical components, including:
• Circuit design (Analog, Digital, and Power)
• Implementation on a printed circuit board
• Programming a logic device (Microcontroller and/or FPGA)
• Test an electronic component and evaluate against design requirements.
• Write component requirements for system level designs.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

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.

Qualifications We Require:

• Currently attending and enrolled full time in the spring term immediately preceding the internship (or scheduled to graduate in the spring) in an accredited undergraduate program
• Pursuing a science, engineering, or math major
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0
• Ability to work up to 40 hours per week during the summer
• U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, asylees or refugees in the U.S.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Majoring in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
• Experience with electrical component design and testing
• Experience with printed circuit board design
• Experience with embedded programming
• Coding experience in MATLAB, python or a similar scripting/programing language
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

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: Organization 231 provides diverse engineering expertise to support high priority, short-turn projects for Sandia's Nuclear Deterrence mission. We partner with other design, testing, and production groups across the Laboratories to develop designs that meet customer needs and deliver on time. Our organization is flexible and adaptable to address a variety of requests from NNSA and DoD in initiating and executing programs through sound systems engineering principles.

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 vacation, 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.

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.

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.