Senior/Principal Computer Scientist - UI Development, Onsite

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*

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*These benefits vary by job classification.

We are seeking an experienced UI Developer to join a creative team passionate about developing next generation systems. We enjoy innovating and collaborating in an engaging learning

environment to architect, design, develop, test, and deploy sophisticated software for complex, real-time decision support systems. We work in geophysical and space system data processing and exploitation pathfinders that leverage SNL's exquisite real-time ground processing expertise and analytics capabilities to deliver innovative solutions for our space mission. Join our passionate team of R&D professions to develop creative solutions to unique national security challenges!

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

• Work from developed requirements, specifications, and architectural design for the new system
• Design new user interfaces as part of a larger system integrated with a database
• Apply strong understanding of web development technologies and frameworks
• Collaborate with other development teams regarding integration with the larger system
• Provide mentorship to development teams; working closely with development teams to iterate on software designs
• Demonstrate dedication to deliver and persistence to resolve issues
• Travel occasionally to customer sites

$117,500 - $235,700

*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.

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, 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 obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance.

The ideal R&D, S&E Computer Science candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation).
• Demonstrated software development skills and familiarity with modern software development practices and tools (e.g., Agile).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, and a passion to improve and expand technical skills.

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

• Knowledge of development tools such as: JavaScript & React; User interface/user experience development in Linux environments.
• Proven experience working on large-scale software systems.
• Kubernetes & Docker; Gitlab & Gradle.
• Experience with TypeScript.
• Experience modeling in UML, distributed system design, and large-scale system design.
• Experience in technical leadership as a lead developer, technical team lead, architect or other similar role.
• Interest in contributing to an architecture role focused on specifying high-level designs for system features, software frameworks & infrastructure, deployment platform, development tooling, etc.
• Familiarity with: service-based architectures (e.g. SOA, microservices); inter-process communication patterns, techniques and technologies; data storage architectures (relational, non-relational - e.g. document, wide-column); fault tolerance and system scaling concepts and techniques.

Modern Systems Solutions (6370) is a capability organization whose core contributions are in the science and engineering of Information Solutions creating engineering centric hardware and software designs for mission focused large data information extraction. Modern Systems Solutions emphasizes developing system requirements and architectures; algorithms; application solutions; and modeling and simulation.

Department. 6371 develops operational monitoring software in support of the US and International nuclear monitoring and non-proliferation mission. From basic research and development to fully deployed operational data processing and analysis systems, the department specializes in software architecture and development, geophysics, seismology/infrasound, machine learning, big data analytics, algorithm development and data analysis. This department is currently responsible for the National Data Center Modernization and the design and engineering of systems supporting Proliferation Assessment.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

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.

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.

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.