Max Ross
About Max Ross
Max Ross is a Technical Lead at Sandia National Laboratories, with extensive experience in engineering and project management roles across various organizations.
Title
Max Ross holds the position of Technical Lead at Sandia National Laboratories.
Current Role at Sandia National Laboratories
Max Ross has been serving as the Technical Lead at Sandia National Laboratories since 2019. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this role, he leads the technical direction for a team of 30 full-time equivalent staff on the WHC sub-component of the W80-4 Life Extension Program. He guides the team from prototype and proof of concept hardware to pre-production type hardware builds, managing a budget of approximately $250 million over 10 years.
Previous Experience at Sandia National Laboratories
Before his current role, Max Ross worked as a Systems Engineer and Acting Lead Mechanical Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories from 2017 to 2019. His tenure in these positions spanned 2 years, also based in the San Francisco Bay Area. During this time, he was responsible for overseeing design qualification and testing, production planning, and production acceptance for the WHC sub-component.
Career at Sargent & Lundy
Max Ross has extensive experience from his time at Sargent & Lundy. He served in multiple roles: Project Engineer from 2014 to 2016, Senior Engineer from 2010 to 2014, and Associate Engineer from 2007 to 2010. This period marked 9 years of his career in the Greater Chicago Area, where he gained hands-on experience in project management and engineering.
Early Career and Internships
Max Ross began his career as Head Mechanical Engineer for the University of Michigan Solar Car Team, where he worked from 2003 to 2007. Additionally, he interned at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 2003 to 2004. These early roles were pivotal in laying the groundwork for his future in mechanical and systems engineering.
Education and Expertise
Max Ross holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, where he studied Economics, Organizational Behavior, Operations, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy from 2010 to 2015. He also earned an MSE in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he studied from 2002 to 2007.