Job opening: LEAD COMPUTER SCIENTIST-DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY
Salary: $86 962 - 134 435 per year
Published at: Feb 20 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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In this position you will test and evaluate intelligence dissemination, command & control, mission planning and business systems to deliver war-winning capabilities in all domains.
Duties
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Works with program offices to coordinate comprehensive and efficient test processes from early developmental testing with the contractor through operational test with operators.
Establishes, develops, and maintains effective working relationships with assigned Section members
Presentations must be based on the position's experience, test analysis, and mission planning knowledge in order to simplify complex program situations for decision making
Interfaces with headquarters and other technical/analytical agencies on advances in state-of-the-art technology.
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Obtain and maintain Secret Security clearance
- Random drug testing may be required depending upon the position being filled.
- 2 years of software testing experience desired
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- Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) prescribed “Unscheduled Telework.
- Up to 25% travel possible
- The employee must meet, or be capable of meeting, Defense Acquisition Work improvement Act (DAWIA) requirements applicable to the duties of the position.
- The selectee must meet or be capable of achieving the APDP certification as Test and Evaluation Practitioner within the defined grace period for that certification level after assignment.
- This position also requires the employee to engage in acquisition continuous learning activities achieving 80 Continuous Learning points every 24 months.
Qualifications
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In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions located below.
Computer Science Series 1550
General Engineering Series 0801
Operations Research Series 1515
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower broadband NH-02 or equivalent to the next lower grade GS-11 in the Federal Service. Specialized experiences is testing and evaluating intelligence dissemination, command & control, mission planning and business systems to deliver war-winning capabilities in all domains and coordinating test activities between developer, program office, developmental test organizations and operational test organizations to ensure a seamless integrated test process.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Expert knowledge of the application of intelligence dissemination, command & control, mission planning and/or business systems experience as it applies to one or more mission areas.
In-depth knowledge of advanced concepts, principles and practices applicable to software test and evaluation, enabling the employee to serve as an expert in T&E planning for newly developed mission planning systems.
In-depth knowledge of testing and evaluation which is sufficient to organize and plan the DT&E or OT&E phase of major joint/combined test programs and to ensure that the system requirements, needed interfaces and equipment capabilities, and program management factors are considered in the planning, conducting, analyzing, and reporting phases for such major programs.
Strong ability to lead test teams; originate new ideas, projects and methodologies; and support the execution of test projects within established financial and/or time constraints.
Broad understanding of acquisition program management concepts, to include understanding DOD and AF philosophy and policies.
Knowledge and skill to effectively report and brief results of tests to program managers and chief developmental testers to negotiate and/or defend test findings and to advocate for courses of actions to solve complex issues.
Knowledge and skill sufficient to arbitrate or negotiate between contractors, government agencies, or any combination thereof wherein incompatibilities of the interfaces of their respective systems are in question. This requires the utmost courtesy, tact, broad technical background, and mature judgment.
Knowledge and skill sufficient to maintain cognizance of current test facilities, techniques, and capabilities in order to provide advice to development and using agencies. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; negotiate complex issues; and maintain good working relationships.
Education
801 Series
Basic Requirements: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by 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)1 , 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)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and 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 the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
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 bachelor's 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. (The above examples of related curricula are not all inclusive.)
1550 Series
Degree: Bachelor's degree in computer science or bachelor's 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. All academic degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.
1515 Series
Degree: in operations research; or at least 24 semester hours in a combination of operations research, mathematics, probability, statistics, mathematical logic, science, or subject-matter courses requiring substantial competence in college-level mathematics or statistics. At least 3 of the 24 semester hours must have been in calculus.
Contacts
- Address EHA DHA
550 C Street West
JBSA Randolph AFB, TX 78150
US
- Name: Air Force Test Center Recruitment
- Email: [email protected]
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