This position is part of the Warfare Centers Personnel Demonstration Project. The ND-5 pay band encompasses positions equivalent to GS-14 and GS-15. You will serve as a Senior Electronics Engineer in the Spectrum Warfare Systems Department, Radar Technologies Division, Solid State & Power Engineering Branch (Code WXPY) of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division.

Duties

You will support the design, development, acquisition, and sustainment of U.S. Navy radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems, subsystems, and radio frequency (RF) and microwave devices. You will perform and advise others in design, modeling and simulation, and verification of the performance of solid-state RF and microwave components, including transistors, monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), etc. You will perform and advise others in development, layout, modeling and simulation, and verification of the performance of microwave and RF circuit card assemblies for radar and EW transmitters and receivers. You will employ and advise use of state-of-the-art instrumentation for the performance characterization and verification of microwave devices. You will develop and advise others in developing modeling and simulation and hardware in the loop (HWIL) test capabilities to estimate the performance of radar and EW systems and components under varying operational and environmental conditions. You will author specifications, contractual documentation, white-papers, test plans, test procedures, test reports, status reports, and other technical documentation for internal and external use. You will be responsible for the production, review, and analysis of engineering schematics, drawings, and hardware to develop detailed knowledge of legacy radar system operation, failure modes, and repair techniques. You will develop requirements for and oversee the acquisition of new radar and EW systems to advance the detection, tracking, targeting, and electronic warfare capabilities of the U.S. Navy. You will review proposals and technical documentation, including Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) submissions, produced by defense industry contractors to evaluate the feasibility and suitability of their designs. You will prepare and deliver presentations to convey technical information to customers, collaborators, and organizational leadership. You will prepare statements of work, cost estimates, work breakdown structures, and integrated master plans, ensuring rigorous engineering design and development projects satisfy sponsor requirements on time and budget. You will support the Division in strategy, business, and wor kforce development initiatives, enhancing the organization's technical value and achievement.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final Secret security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-4 pay band (GS-12 and GS-13 equivalency) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional engineer applying advanced electronics engineering principles to design or develop radar, electronic warfare, or radio frequency systems. Examples of qualifying experience may include (1) advanced technical knowledge of RF, microwave, and mmWave design, electromagnetics, digital and analog electronics, microelectronic circuit design, circuit card assembly or printed circuit board design, and/or object oriented programming; (2) experience in the development of engineering software using MathWorks' MATLAB and Simulink; (3) extensive experience in circuit design, using tools such as Altium or OrCAD; (4) extensive experience in the design, prototyping, verification, and fielding of custom RF, microwave, and mmWave devices and circuit card assemblies. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management websites: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series AND https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) 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. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR

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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org

OR

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, and Puerto Rico The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.

OR

Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)

OR

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 one 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.

Contacts

• Address NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER 300 Highway 361 Crane, IN 47522-5001 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]