Senior Missile Engineer: Z Program / FLEX-TERM

Position description

Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.

We are committed to a diverse and equitable workforce with an inclusive culture that values and celebrates the diversity of our people, talents, ideas, experiences, and perspectives. This is important for continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.

Pay Range

$159,330 – $245,544 Annually

$159,330 – $204,636 Annually for the SES.3 level

$191,220 – $245,544 Annually for the SES.4 level

Please note that the pay range information is a general guideline only. Many factors are taken into consideration when setting starting pay including education, experience, the external labor market, and internal equity.

Job Description

We have an opening for a Senior Missile Engineer to join an interdisciplinary team conducting analysis of ballistic missiles, advanced conventional weapons (ACW), and their implications for the national security interests of the United States. You will perform technical analysis and lead projects that integrate complex information from all sources into finished assessments, make formal verbal and written presentations, interface with Program sponsors and Intelligence Community (IC) stakeholders, and contribute to project and organizational goals. This position is in the Science and Technology Assessments (STA) Program within Global Security Principal Directorate’s Z Program.

This position will be filled at either the SES.3 or SES.4 level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team.

In this role, you will

• Conduct independent research on sensitive, politically significant national security topics, with a focus on solid propellant delivery systems. Maintain awareness of relevant current events and information in assigned areas.
• Assist in identifying analytic priorities, defining problems, and proposing complex analytic research methodologies with minimal direction.
• Write reports and present analytic findings in support of sponsor and stakeholder objectives that adhere to intelligence community analytic standards.
• Set specific technical strategies to a focused national security research program in assigned areas that address key science and technology and policy questions, using independent judgment.
• Conducts technical tasks of new program opportunities, including the definition and development of research proposals and interaction with potential sponsors and customers under minimal direction.
• Represent the organization as the primary technical contact for the intelligence-related organizational objectives by presenting in-depth analysis to sponsors and consumers and traveling as necessary.
• Obtain and maintain required security in a Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) environment for information that is under the analyst’s direct control.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

In addition, at the SES.4 Level

• Act as the prime consultant on multiple intelligence related tasks and large projects, working effectively across a range of priorities.
• Directs complex technical tasks and contributes advanced subject matter knowledge on national security issues to inform the development of strategies and plans to meet programmatic objectives.
• Participate in programmatic sustainment and growth by identifying and addressing complex sponsor needs and prioritizing collaborations with LLNL staff and across the community.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance and obtain and maintain required security in a Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) environment for information that is under the analyst’s direct control.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline, political science, or international relations, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience, and demonstrated ability to perform independent work.
• Advanced knowledge experience working within or with the Intelligence Community (IC) and with scientific and technological issues associated with national security, to include delivery systems, space, and other advanced, emerging, and/or disruptive technology issues.
• Significant experience working with multidisciplinary teams in achieving project objectives; demonstrated strength in partnering with outside organizations successfully.
• Significant experience researching, assessing, and integrating Science and Technology (S&T) knowledge, in collaboration with technical subject matter experts, in support of national security issues.
• Significant experience working effectively under deadlines, coordinating workloads on multiple projects simultaneously, and meeting deadlines with conflicting priorities.
• Advanced experience working across organizational work units, with demonstrated effective teamwork, and customer service skills.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team environment; author intelligence analyses; and present and explain technical information to external sponsors and customers.
• Ability to travel as necessary to present analyses to sponsors and IC stakeholders as well as to meet with IC counterparts and sponsors.

Additional job qualifications, at the SES.4 Level

• Recognized by stakeholders and partners as a subject matter expert on relevant national security related technical topics.
• Significant experience and demonstrated ability to lead the application and development of principles, theories, and concepts in an applicable discipline in a creative and innovative fashion.
• Proven record of success in independently establishing and securing partnerships, for multidisciplinary analytic studies on issues affecting national security; contributing to programmatic sustainment and growth by identifying and addressing complex sponsor needs in these areas; and creating innovative technical tools and/or technically informed research products to meet stakeholder and research objectives.

Qualifications We Desire

• Demonstrated publication record in a relevant national security issue area.
• Significant experience successfully managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams.
• Experience in the U.S. missile industry.
• Active Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.

Additional Information

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Position Information

This is a Flexible Term appointment, which is for a definite period not to exceed six years.  If final candidate is a Career Indefinite employee, Career Indefinite status may be maintained (should funding allow).

Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?

• Included in 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor!
• Flexible Benefits Package
• 401(k)
• Relocation Assistance
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (IDEA) – visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity
• Our core beliefs – visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity/our-values
• Employee engagement – visit https://www.llnl.gov/diversity/employee-engagement

Security Clearance

This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance.  Also, you must have the ability to obtain and maintain Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.  If you are selected, we will initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if you meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship. 

Pre-Employment Drug Test

External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor.

Application instructions

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