Manager, R&D Science - Space Geospatial Mission Futures, Onsite

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Sandia National Laboratories is seeking an enthusiastic and strategic leader to serve as the R&D Manager for the newly envisioned GeoInt Futures Department (6375). The Space Mission Program (Center 6300) continues to experience rapid growth in space missions that depend on advanced geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) and space-derived data processing. As a Mission Engineering & GEOINT Data Analytics for Space Program Office (MEGASPO) program manager, this role is central to shaping Sandias GEOINT futurestrengthening sponsor relationships, identifying new opportunities, and ensuring execution of funded programs.

Working in close partnership with the MEGASPO program office, the manager will be responsible for both program development and project execution in this rapidly expanding mission area. The ideal candidate is an established professional in GEOINT data analytics, remote sensing exploitation, and/or mission ground processing with strong sponsor relationships and the ability to cultivate new opportunities, while integrating their teams work with subject matter experts across Sandia to ensure mission impact.

Positions of this nature across the laboratory provide excellent pathways to future leadership roles, and the successful candidate will bring a growth mindset and the vision to imagine what Sandia can contribute to national security in the future. This manager will guide a team of scientists and engineers, collaborate with peer managers and the MEGASPO program manager, and help shape new mission opportunities.

On any given day, you may be asked to:

• Work collaboratively with peer research managers and the MEGASPO program manager to deliver on project outcomes to existing defense and IC sponsors on time and to Sandias standards for quality.
• Manage a team of innovative scientists and engineers, including hiring, retention, performance engagement, career development, and skills-to-project alignment.
• Build and maintain relationships with key sponsors in the defense and IC communities, with a focus on identifying new opportunities for Sandia to serve national security needs.
• Set strategic direction by aligning technical capabilities with emerging mission needs and influencing investment priorities.
• Travel to key sponsor meetings and offsites as needed (approximately once every 48 weeks).

This position is based in Albuquerque, NM, and requires four days onsite each week. Some travel will be required to build and maintain relationships with external partners and sponsors.

$163,700 - $278,000

*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 eight (8) 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 and SCI clearance.

The ideal Manager, R&D Science and Engineering candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:

• Two or more years of demonstrated leadership experience.
• A graduate degree in science or engineering (MS or Ph.D.).
• Outstanding interpersonal skills in developing trusting relationships with peers, staff, management, customers, and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the development and delivery of presentations, proposals, reports, and documentation.

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

• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills, including effective leadership, teamwork, and negotiation.
• Demonstrated capability to build trust-based relationships among peers, staff, management, and customers at all levels.
• Demonstrated experience developing technical proposals, presenting these proposals to potential customers, and acquiring funding for those proposals.
• Demonstrated ability to work well in diverse, multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• Experience managing space-related analytics and/or ground system research and development programs (e.g., TCPED, mission data processing, real-time exploitation, or similar).
• A working understanding of GEOINT mission needs and relevant sponsor workflows.
• Familiarity with multi-INT data processing and fusion and/or commercial remote sensing data exploitation.
• Experience in the following areas:
  • Remote sensing technologies
  • Mission systems engineering
  • Modeling and simulation
  • Signal/image processing and analysis
  • Information/data science, data analytics, and algorithm development
  • Real-time and/or large-scale data processing architectures for GEOINT exploitation

The NGS System Engineering & Integrated Solutions department (6365) is a multi-disciplinary organization that takes a system from requirements through development environments, CI pipelines, testing to successful deployment. The team performs research & development of modern technologies and methodologies to ensure the successful delivery on our customer commitments. Our primary mission area is the US and International nuclear monitoring and non-proliferation mission. Our work ranges from prototyping innovative solutions to the deployment of operational data processing systems. Our capabilities include system engineering, software development, computer platform architectures, development environments, continuous integration, virtualization, system integration & testing, and deployment. We blend art & science to find creative solutions. We strive to think outside the box in our development efforts to advance the state of the art in support of the monitoring missions.

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 and SCI access, both of which require US citizenship. SCI access may also require a polygraph examination. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain these levels of access may be impacted.

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