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.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

Are you passionate about research dedicated to keeping systems safe and thwarting cyber intrusions? Are you dreaming of a chance to develop protective technologies, conduct threat assessments, and analyze government, military, and civilian computer networks? If so, this is the opportunity for you to join Sandia's unique multidisciplinary team committed to solving the information security challenges facing our nation. As part of our R&D Cybersecurity team, you will engage in work across the technology spectrum including embedded, mobile, desktop, enterprise, and cloud systems, as well as globally connected networks of networks.

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

• Support Sandia's national security missions, our cybersecurity scientists and engineers engage in a variety of research areas including:
• Manual and automated reverse engineering, vulnerability assessment, and malware analysis
• Network operation, information protection, and resiliency
• Authentication and Authorization
• Cryptography
• Threat intelligence
• Modeling, simulation, and emulation
• Data science, information theory, and streaming and behavioral analytics
• Hardware/software trust and assurance
• Virtualization (system and network) and cloud technologies
• Mobile devices and smart technologies
• Industrial control systems and SCADA systems
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI Security

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

Salary Range:

$94,700 - $184,500

*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.

Qualifications We Require:

• 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 acquire and maintain a DOE Q clearance
• Ability to acquire and maintain and SCI clearance, which may require a polygraph examination

Qualifications We Desire:

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

• Graduate degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Computer Forensics, Mathematics or a directly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Experience in one or more of the following: reverse engineering, software vulnerability assessment, web application assessment, computer networking, computer architecture, compilers, or similar computer security topics.
• Proficiency in scripting or high-level programming.
• Familiarity with secure-system design principles and information assurance principles.
• Excellent communication skills and a demonstrated ability to develop technical ideas and results and present them in oral and written form in a concise manner.

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

• Experience with writing code in one or more of the following:
• C/C++
• Java
• Python
• hardware languages
• assembly
• or other languages
• Hands-on technical cybersecurity experience
• Experience with assembly or operating system programming, application layer programming, Dev-Op programming, and/or network layer programming.
• Demonstrated experience and application of one or more of the following fields: data science, machine learning, information theory, and streaming and behavioral analytics, and network protocols
• Cyber relevant experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to include AI Security, data engineering, and machine learning models
• Active DOE Q security clearance and SCI security clearance

About Our Team:

Working at Sandia's Minnesota site is an outstanding opportunity allowing you to live in the mid-west while contributing to the national security mission. The Applied Cybersecurity Research Department develops and applies new information technologies that enable our national security and critical infrastructure protection customers to establish information superiority in a variety of situations. We work across the technology spectrum including embedded, mobile, desktop, wireless, enterprise systems, and globally connected networks. This department has challenging career opportunities for individuals with a passion to pursue the complexities of assessing and protecting critical information systems and technologies.

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.

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.

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 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: 695876

Job Family: RD

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F