Responsible for the development of advances in the state-of-the-art and creation of new or substantially improved end items in the form of equipment, systems, materials, processes, procedures, standards, and techniques.
The work involves the application of basic scientific knowledge through a series of sequential phases beginning with establishment of requirements, development of a concept, definition of critical features and problems.
Development of prototype design, and testing and evaluation of the concept for a completed product.
Develop concepts, technical requirements, manage system design and development, sometimes done in conjunction with external vendors, and evaluate performance through experimentation to address challenging S and T goals.
Perform technical project lead duties to design and execute projects. Manages project performance, budget, cost, and schedule along with providing technical contributions to the project and team.
Identify the scope and extent of the investigation, analysis, and design, and defines the specific engineering requirements and design criteria.
Participate in customer communications, requirements determination, and project proposal/cost estimate creation for design and development projects.
Keep senior managers informed of all significant issues and external taskers. Provides authoritative information and advice within the area of assignment
Complete Contracting Officer Representative (COR) duties as required.
Serve as an expert advisor for these broad and complex programs that advance the state-of-the-art, and represents the organization or agency in high-level conferences and meetings.
Conduct studies and analyses of scientific/engineering data through modeling and simulation and/or in the laboratory to determine the feasibility of advanced concepts.
Guide and evaluate the design and development activities of contractors and others in achieving new products.
Apply a wide range of engineering and scientific principles and theories to project performance and operating characteristics.
Explore and evaluate proposals that satisfy program and mission objectives.
Collaborate with external stakeholders to align project schedules with transition partners and brief project status updates.
Responsible for troubleshooting and evaluating CMOSS aligned hardware and software from vendors.
Understand operational usage of C5ISR communication, EW, PNT, or networking equipment to develop test cases/scenarios to realistically capture relevant data.
Recommend system configuration for thorough testing of customer products.
Apply and develop Modular Open Systems Approaches for Army capabilities.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
Business travel is required up to 25% of the time.
Selectee must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret (TS) security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Access (SCI).
This is a Testing Designated Position (TDP) subject to applicant testing and random drug testing. Tentatively selected applicants will be required to sign DA Form 5019 requiring participation in random drug testing.
This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Workforce position. Selectee must meet position requirements for Practitioner certification within 60 months of entrance on duty.
Three-year probationary period may be required under the demonstration project for the Engineers and Scientists Occupational Family unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315.
Qualifications
This position is being filled under the Direct Hire Authority (DHA) Bachelors Degree for Scientific and Engineering Positions (STRLs) authorized by 85 FR 78829 dtd 12/07/2020.
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document .
Qualified candidates must meet the Basic Requirement for the Interdisciplinary position.
In addition to meeting the Basic Requirement, applicants must have one year of specialized experience at the DB-02 (GS-11 grade level or higher equivalency).
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade or band is required. It is defined as one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-02 pay band (GS-11 equivalent or higher) in the Federal Service that includes: 1) Performing engineering lifecycle activities or research/development to facilitate the procurement of products, goods and/or services needed to meet program/project requirements; 2) Analyzing engineering/scientific data for use in program/project improvement and/or troubleshooting; and 3) Leading/participating on an engineering/scientific program or project; and 4) Technical design and development and/or technical support to customers in efforts related to technologies including, but not limited to open architectures, distributed sensing technologies, unattended ground sensors, Radio Frequency (RF) sensors, and/or multifunction RF.
Basic Requirement For Engineer (0850, 854 And 0855 Series)
Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must:
lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET);
OR
include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
OR
Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:
Professional registration or licensure - Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
Related curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.
Basic Requirement For Computer Scientist (1550 Series)
Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in computer science or bachelor's degree (or higher degree) with 30 semester hours in a combination of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics that included differential and integral calculus.
Transcripts are required to meet the Basic Education for the applicable series.
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications .
Additional Information
This announcement uses the Direct Hire Authority (DHA) for Defense STRL Positionsto recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.
Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
Three year trial/probationary period may be required.
Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
This is a(n) (CP) 16 - Engineering and Scientists (Non-construction) position.
Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.
Position is Telework eligible, as determined by agency policy.
This position is a Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory Personnel Management Demonstration Project position. The DB-3 pay band encompasses the GS-12 step 1 to GS-14 step 10 grade levels.
This position has a positive education requirement and requires proof of education for eligibility. If the selectee is not already in the 0800 or 1500 series transcripts MUST be submitted prior to the action becoming effective. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website