Intern, R&D Graduate Summer - Future Nuclear Weapon Systems & Special Projects, Onsite

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696220

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Albuquerque, NM

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Part-Time

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Temporary

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What Your Job Will Be Like

Our Systems Engineering Team is seeking a graduate student intern for Summer 2026! Qualified candidates will support modeling, validation, and verification activities for advanced flight systems. This role involves demonstrating and implementing advanced SysML modeling techniques tools such as MagicDraw for system architecture modeling, and may include contributing to test planning, execution, and reporting. Candidates should have strong analytical skills and familiarity with a broad range of engineering disciplines. This internship offers hands-on experience in a highly collaborative environment supporting Sandia's nuclear deterrence mission.

Based on your skills and experience, your project(s) may involve :

• Supporting the development of a federated set of MagicDraw models specifying the requirements, architecture, verification, and physical aspects of an advanced vehicle system
• Utilizing advanced systems engineering modeling techniques to improve design quality, to enable collaboration, and to prepare for integration and flight of the vehicle system
• Modeling system operation and integration behaviors in MagicDraw
• Designing test configurations and activities for verification planning
• Contributing to component environmental testing
• Scripting in MagicDraw to create document templates and other products to streamline access across interdisciplinary teams and sponsors

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 .

Qualifications We Require

You bring the confidence and skills to be eligible for the job by meeting these minimum requirements :

Note : If you have not yet started your graduate program, please apply to an undergraduate intern position.

Qualifications We Desire

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

Our Future Nuclear Weapon Systems & Special Projects team is comprised of systems and design engineers offering expertise to deliver innovative rapid development solutions to meet our nation's urgent security needs. We provide diverse engineering expertise to support high priority, short-turn projects for Sandia's Nuclear Deterrence mission. We partner with other design, testing, and production groups across the Laboratories to develop, test, and build designs that meet customer needs and deliver on time.

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 :

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at : http : / / www.sandia.gov

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.