About the Position: The Army values diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, cultures and skills, which connects employees to organizations that are committed to building an inclusive work environment where they can contribute to their fullest potential. This position is located in Warren, Michigan, and is within the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) ,Vehicle Electronics & Architectures (VEA).

Duties

Serve as Technical Expert (TE) at the division level. Serve in an advisory role to the Division Chief to address and solve engineering and science and technology problems in electronics system architectures, in-vehicle data network, embedded computing, software architecture, and embedded software. Provide expert technical guidance for projects. Develop and maintain the Tech Authority roadmaps as necessary for respective technical area(s) in their respective division. Develop junior technical staff within the Division. Perform, document, and present the necessary engineering analysis to solve such problems for a variety of customers internal and external to their home organization. Address key customer engineering problems associated with the area of expertise for this position, including presenting engineering solutions to various customers and representing GVSC at key meetings, events, and conferences. Develop electronic, electrical, software, architectures, and Modular Open System Approaches (MOSA) for military ground vehicle systems using domain specific knowledge regarding system integration. Provide expert level technical subject matter expertise in the area of military ground vehicle data architectures to the division, organization, project teams, customers, and industry to achieve technical, strategic, and programmatic goals. Communicate technical and non-technical information to high level representatives of industry, academia and other target audiences. Develop concepts and perform trade-offs including interface requirements, safety critical interfaces, commercial and military device availability with defined interfaces, and deterministic networking within the embedded computing systems.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE 450) upon entry and annually thereafter in accordance with DoD Directive 5500-7-R.
• A three year probationary period may be required.
• This is an Army Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Workforce position. Selectees must meet the requirements for certification at Level 2 (Practitioner) in Engineering and Technical Management within 60 months of entrance on duty.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian EmployeesMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Soldier Center is participating in an alternative personnel system known as the Laboratory Personnel Demonstration Project. The DB-04 pay band is equivalent to the GS-14 step 1 to GS-15 step 10 level. 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. Basic Requirement for Engineering (08XX Series): A. Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) 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 (2) 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; B. 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: 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. In addition to meeting one of the Basic Requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the DB-03, higher-end of the Pay Band (equivalent to GS-13 grade level), in the Federal service which includes: (1) Experience of military ground vehicle data architectures, computer networks, and embedded software; (2) Demonstrated mastery of concepts, principles, and practices of military ground vehicle data architectures, computer networks, and embedded software with a thorough knowledge of agency policies and practices relative to engineering or scientific matters; ( 3) Demonstrated ability to intensively interact with and clearly communicate technical and non-technical information to high level representatives of industry, academia and other target audiences; (4) Demonstrated knowledge of hardware and software components to address vehicle system safety including developing software to address safety standards, hardware safety designs including discrete, differential discreete, deterministic networks, and safety critical processing and; (5) Demonstrated practical knowledge and skills to model, design, develop, integrate, and test vehicle electronic architectures and components for use within military ground vehicles. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service DB-03(GS-13 equivalent). Please note: Pay Band DB-03 is equivalent to a GS-12 to GS-13 grade levels and Pay Band DB-04 is equivalent to a GS-14 to GS-15 grade levels. You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: LeadershipOral CommunicationTechnical Competence

Education

***NOTE: TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED even if you are a current federal employee.***

Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites at - http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.htmlSome 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.

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: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address FN-W4GHAA US ARMY COMBAT CAPABILITIES DEV CMD DO NOT MAIL Warren, MI 48397 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
• Email: [email protected]