Intern, R&D Graduate Year-Round

About the Role

The Interns for Security, Arms Control, and Force Protection Engineering (iSAFE) Institute is a premier Intern Institute at Sandia National Laboratories seeking outstanding undergraduate students in fields such as Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Explosives Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Geophysics, Materials Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, Seismology, Nuclear Engineering, Systems Engineering, or concentrations in Human Factors or Organizational Behavior. Interns will support programs and projects related to United States National Security Missions, including critical asset protection, security, nuclear weapons and force protection, weapons of mass destruction nonproliferation and cooperative threat reduction, energy and homeland security, intelligence science, and reliability engineering. The position requires working onsite.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, test, and deliver advanced data processing and exploitation software.
• Design, develop, and conduct tests and experiments related to national security missions.
• Assist in the development of first-of-a-kind software solutions and data exploitation methods for challenging technical problems.
• Deliver quick and accurate solutions to complex and nationally significant problems.
• Develop new skills to address needed capabilities for projects.
• Contribute to data analysis and review in support of national security mission projects.
• Contribute to reports and papers on technical topics.
• Identify and implement new tools and approaches for solving complex technical problems.
• Collaborate with other Sandia National Laboratories Interns on shared projects.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Earned bachelor's degree.
• Currently attending and enrolled full time in an accredited science, engineering, or math graduate program.
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0.
• Ability to work up to 30 hours per week during the academic year.
• 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.
• Working knowledge and understanding of an engineering or science-related field.
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 (desired).
• Self-motivated, hard-working, detail-oriented, and thorough (desired).
• Ability to work well in a team environment (desired).
• Experience with: Electro-mechanical systems; Control systems; Software programming; MATLAB; LabVIEW; National Instruments Veristand; Test instrumentation and troubleshooting (desired).
• Experience with: Test designing, planning, execution, and documentation; Data analysis and statistical methods; Digital signal processing; Mechanical structural analysis; Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis (desired).
• Experience with modeling: SolidWorks, Pro/E, Creo, Finite Element Analysis (desired).
• Knowledge in programming and scripting languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, SQL (desired).
• Knowledge of tools and approaches related to human systems analysis or experimentation (desired).

Qualifications

• Must be eligible for the job by meeting minimum requirements.
• Selected applicant must be able to work onsite.
• This position does not currently require a Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance.
• Sandia will conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review.
• Employees in New Mexico need to pass a U.S. Air Force background screen for access to Kirtland Air Force Base.
• Under federal law, citizens and agents of the People's Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, and the Russian Federation are generally prohibited from accessing Sandia National Laboratories unless they are also a U.S. citizen.

Note: Intern pay rates are based on earned credit hours, classification, and degree level. A link to the Intern Pay Rate chart is provided in the original posting.