Job Description
What Your Job Will Be Like:
Passionate about delivering impactful engineering solutions and dream of utilizing state-of-the-art facilities to explore solutions? Join a dynamic team and provide real products to serve the nation’s greatest missions!
We are seeking an Undergraduate Electrical Engineering intern to support our dynamic group. On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Support the design and documentation of high reliability electrical components and security solutions
- Functionally and environmentally test and document boards, components, and cables
- Integrate and troubleshoot power components, sensing systems, control modules, and more.
- Develop documentation for installed or configured security components to support qualification and fielding
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:
- Currently attending and enrolled full time in the spring term immediately preceding the internship (or scheduled to graduate in the spring) in an accredited related undergraduate 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 maintain a U.S. security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship
Note: If you have not earned a HS diploma or equivalent, please apply to a high school intern position.
Qualifications We Desire:
- Ability to obtain a Q clearance
- Pursuing a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electro-mechanical engineering, or other relevant major.
- Candidates capable of coming to our onsite location in Albuquerque, NM.
- Candidates that are equally comfortable in a lab, office, or field environment.
- Ability to contribute in a team environment.
- Candidates eager to learn new things and explore outside their comfort zone if they do not yet have the experience below:
- Experience with some or all of: Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, ECAD, CREO, C#, TCP/IP, SPI, etc.
- Experience with some or all of: electrical schematics, board design, electrical modeling, cable design, cable fabrication, etc.
- Candidates comfortable with Windows and Linux based machines.
- Existing DOE Q clearance
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:
Department 6762's primary mission is to provide electrical components, testers, and cables for next generation transportation systems. These responsibilities include the research, development, testing, integration, and qualification of electrical components and systems necessary to support items on the move.
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 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: 694926
Job Family: 91
Regular/Temporary Position: T
Full/Part-Time Status: P
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.