What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking an R&D Graduate Year-Round Intern to support quantum-specific workforce development programs targeting high school and community college students and educators, including QCaMP for Students, QCaMP for Educators, and our Quantum Learning Lab. The ideal candidate will have a background in Quantum Information Science (QIS) or adjacent field and a keen interest in workforce development.

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

• Planning Curriculum: Assist with the development of a comprehensive and accessible training for high schools and community colleges, focusing on engaging experiences for both students and teachers.
• Implementation Oversight: Work with the QCaMP team to ensure smooth execution of the camp, overseeing activities, workshops, and lectures to impart quantum science concepts effectively.
• Collaboration: Work closely with educators, scientists, and staff to coordinate activities, aligning them with training objectives and student/teacher needs.
• Accessibility: Work with the QCaMP and QuLL teams to ensure that the curriculum and activities are accessible to a broad range of backgrounds and inspire belonging in STEM for all participants.
• Continuous Improvement: Utilize feedback and evaluation results to refine future programs, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with training goals.
• Research and Development: Where possible, incorporate innovative training methodologies and workforce development best practices to enhance the program.
• Documentation and Reporting: Keep organized materials and records, collect informal feedback, assess program success, and prepare reports on participant engagement, learning outcomes, and overall effectiveness.

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/51/2024/10/Student-Rate-Sheet-Sept-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 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, and up to 40 hours per week during the summer
• U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, asylees or refugees in the U.S.

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

Qualifications We Desire:

• QIS Background: Some knowledge and/or expertise in QIS, either through coursework, research, practical application, and/or self-taught learning.
• Workforce Development Experience: Experience or interest in education research, curriculum development, or teaching, preferably in STEM-related fields.
• Project Management Skills: Ability to plan, organize, and manage multiple aspects of a complex program, meeting deadlines and ensuring quality deliverables.
• Collaborative Nature: Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders and to communicate complex science concepts to non-experts.
• Passion for Workforce Development: A genuine interest in fostering a love for QIS among students and educators, aiming to inspire and facilitate learning, while having awareness of biases and barriers in STEM and demonstrated interest in helping others overcome them.
• QIS Workforce Development Program Familiarity: An understanding and/or awareness of current programs and learning opportunities in quantum information science across the ecosystem that engage high school and postsecondary audiences, especially in the southwest and mountain west regions of the US.
• Ability to work in-person at a camp location in June/July

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 Photonic Microsystems Technologies Department exploits science and technology at the nano and micro scales to enable advances in systems for national security. Our engagement is with a broad spectrum of technologies and a diverse field of customers with a successful record of maturing technology from concept to laboratory demo to prototype. The department consists of teams that lead the development and understanding of quantum effects associated with silicon electronic devices, atomic and molecular gases, and trapped electrons, atoms and ions. Most significantly, with a strong presence in the Microsystems Engineering Sciences and Applications (MESA) facility and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) and working broadly with other Sandia and external organizations, we fabricate electronic structures and devices that use these effects to achieve new levels of performance at the integrated system level. Core technology areas in the department include nanofabrication of silicon devices; electromagnetic modeling; and ion trap and solid-state quantum information science and technology.

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 L-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 the 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: 694729

Job Family: 91

Regular/Temporary Position: T

Full/Part-Time Status: P