What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you passionate about your work and dream of utilizing state-of-the-art facilities to explore solutions? Do you want to join a dynamic team that solves significant issues for our nation's security?

We are seeking a Summer Intern - R&D Graduate in support of Integrated Missile & Strike Systems work.

On any given date, you will:

• Perform conceptualization, design, analysis, design definition, fabrication oversight, assembly/integration, flight certification testing
• Support fielding and flight test operations all within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary, team-focused environment.
• May need to travel to support program interactions, system integration activities and flight testing at partner locations and remote test facilities.
• Work as a fully integrated member of a highly skilled team in one of the critical disciplines listed below based on your skills and interests:
• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Advanced and Additive Manufacturing

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/51/2024/12/Student-Rate-Sheet-2025.docx) .

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 the spring term immediately preceding the internship (or scheduled to graduate in the spring) in an accredited science, engineering, or math graduate program
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0
• Ability to work up to 40 hours per week during the summer
• Ability to secure and maintatin a U.S. security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship

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

Qualifications We Desire:

Preference will be given to those who possess any of the following additional qualifications in their area of focus:

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Experience in mechanical design and analysis with Solidworks, Creo, Abaqus, or other engineering tools
• Understanding of manufacturing processes used for precision metal parts
• Working knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
• Experience with hands-on assembly and integration of mechanical and electrical components and test articles.
• Demonstrated ability to think at a systems level, recognizing how components and subsystems impact one another
• Advanced and Additive Manufacturing
• Understanding and/or exposure to advanced manufacturing processes
• Understanding and/or exposure to additive manufacturing processes
• Experience designing, fabricating, or implementing additive and composite material manufacturing approaches to novel hardware and tooling designs
• Experience assessing or implementing cost reduction and producibility improvements through the use of novel manufacturing techniques.
• General
• Experience working with DOE or DoD partners including Navy, Army, Air Force, Space Force, MDA
• Active DOE L/Q clearance or DoD S/TS clearance
• Experience with design definition, configuration management, requirements development, tracking, and verification
• Research and Experimental Design & Test
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a small team multidisciplinary environment
• Ability to compile and present designs, analysis, and test results into concise format for consumption by experienced multi-disciplinary peers and leadership.

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 mission of Center 5400, Integrated Military Systems (IMS), is to solve the warfighters' most challenging, urgent, and high-risk problems, defend the nation, and defeat threats to the national security. Sandia has more than 60 years of rocketry experience with thousands of successful launches and flight experiments. Born out of a national need to conduct atmospheric testing for the nuclear weapons program, this capability for executing complex integrated flight systems testing now supports programs ranging from precision sounding rockets used for rapid technology advancement in urgent mission areas to advanced hypersonic flight vehicles critical to national posturing. IMS stands ready to meet the emerging needs of the nation.

The center performed the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW) and Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) flight test demonstrations for the US Army and Navy, including full system integration of the booster and payload. IMS has similar flight test programs underway for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in addition to the Army and Navy ongoing CPS and Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) programs, giving center personnel no shortage of challenging and rewarding work. Sandia is working closely with well-known aerospace and defense partners from the private sector to transition key hypersonics technologies to industry while continuing to look into the future for the next challenges to be tackled in this exciting mission area. IMS is the system integrator for the High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics (H4H) program that conducts annual sounding rocket launch campaigns to rapidly mature hypersonic weapon technologies. This program gives our engineers opportunities to design, build, and fly rocket hardware and dozens of experimental payloads on a regular and consistent basis. The center manages the Kauai Test Facility (KTF) situated on the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Western-most island of the Hawaiian chain.

The center has expertise in:

• Flight system design and integration
• Aerodynamic modeling of every fidelity
• Wind tunnel testing
• Flight dynamics and mission design
• Navigation, guidance and control
• Software and Hardware in the Loop (S/HWIL) testing
• Mechanical and electrical hardware testing and integration
• Ordnance handling and logistics
• Operational security and classified hardware/ data handling

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. 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: 694978

Job Family: 91

Regular/Temporary Position: T

Full/Part-Time Status: P