Senior/Principal Testbed Software Engineer - Linux, Onsite

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

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What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are currently looking to hire an experienced Testbed Software Engineer that is ready for a career where you know your work makes a difference. We want someone passionate about working on an agile team and using their knowledge, experience, and expertise to build software systems that tackle the most complicated remote sensing problems.

Primarily responsibilities will include operating, sustaining, and innovating a complex Linux build, integration, and test environments that enables the development of sophisticated, real-time decision support systems that support remote sensing, data acquisition, and analysis applications for National Security missions.

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

• Team to enable development and testing of complex software across infrastructures that are utilized by multiple code development teams, to support the detection and resolution of defects
• Work collectively with architects, infrastructure partners, developers, testers, and end users to deliver a robust evaluation of fixes as well as new functionality
• Plan, develop, and complete the implementation of solutions in the areas of hybrid computing, security architecture, software architecture, and network engineering.
• Use strong problem-solving/critical thinking skills as well as interpersonal and collaboration skills to support colleagues across multiple teams with diverse technology stacks.
• Contribute to the future of a deeply exciting mission through engagement with diverse computer science and IT specialists in areas such as analytics, cloud computing, architectures, and data management and visualization.

Salary Range:

$102,400 - $199,700

*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.

Qualifications We Require:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant STEM field plus five or more years of experience; or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• Three or more years of experience with developing and modifying Python scripts in a Linux environment
• Three or more years of maintaining existing Perl and Bash scripts with an end goal of replacing them with a consistent Python code base.
• Experience in problem identification, root cause analysis, and solving
• Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q clearance with SCI, which will require polygraph testing.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Experience with Linux systems administration
• Experience supporting daily verification of a complex software environment on locally supported testbeds
• Experience in Git source code management
• Experience researching, evaluating, and recommending solutions to improve current systems
• Familiar with DevOps and CI/CD practices
• Active DOE/DOD clearance with SCI, with a recent polygraph test

About Our Team:

The Systems Design and Architecture Department designs, evaluates, and develops sophisticated architectures for processing and exploitation of remote sensing information. We enable teams that invent, analyze, and develop algorithms and software that support real-time extraction and classification of static and dynamic events from a variety of very complicated data streams from pathfinder remote sensing assets. We are part of crafting and deploying innovative large networked computing systems that process terabytes of near real-time data daily, extracting information, and providing it to national decision makers.

Posting Duration:

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.

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 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.

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: 697740

Job Family: IT

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F

Client-provided location(s): Albuquerque, NM

Job ID: Departmend_Of_Energy_-_Sandia_National_Laboratories_FGB-697740

Employment Type: PART_TIME

Posted: 2026-05-07T18:44:22