Location: Los Alamos, NM
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
**This position is open for external candidates only to apply.** **What You Will Do** Q-6 is offering an exciting opportunity to be a part of the Detonation Science and Technology Group. The Group is seeking a mid-level R&D Engineer. You will work closely with a diverse group of engineers, technologists and technicians on initiation train design, advanced diagnostic design, high explosive detonator testing, experiment fielding, and high voltage and laser operations to support experiments. You will work in areas involving high consequences for safety that might be in the form of chemicals, high explosives, high-power lasers, and high-energy devices. The Detonation Science and Technology Group (Q-6) serves the Laboratory and the Nation providing the knowledge base and component design responsibilities for the Nuclear Weapons Program and other critical national security areas. The Group's capabilities include design engineering for nuclear weapon detonators and detonator cable assemblies, design, fabrication, qualification, and installation of test fire control systems, pulse power engineering, advanced detonator design and testing, and applied problem solving. Additional capabilities include expertise in the detonation science and physics of detonator energetic materials, and engineering responsibility for the cradle to grave care of the detonators and detonator cable assemblies used by Los Alamos National Laboratory. The successful candidate will work within the Future Systems Innovation and Development team with the W93 Product Realization Teams. You will be responsible for leading the qualification, test and evaluation (QTE) for the advanced sensors and detonator cable assembly efforts. You will lead testing and verification effort to mature new technologies and assert reliability in environments. You will work the design, testing, requirements development, component verification, and qualifications of next generation diagnostic systems for flight test vehicles and