NIST works with industry and science to advance innovation and improve quality of life. We're looking for a Computer Scientist to join our team! This notice is issued under direct-hire authority to recruit new talent to occupations for which NIST has a severe shortage of candidates.

Duties

As a Computer Scientist, the duties will include: Perform full stack web development and related system engineering for internal and external systems. Design and develop functional static and dynamic web pages, back-end servers, leaderboards, and evaluation scoring systems for evaluations and challenges. Develop software to support collaborative evaluation-driven research by integrating multimodal data & prototyping of novel algorithms. Support advancing evaluation methods supporting multimodal analytic/forensic/biometric test and measurement technology integrating web aspects into enterprise evaluation infrastructure.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Suitable for Federal employment
• Bargaining Unit Position: No

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: 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. In addition to the basic requirements, applicants must have specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 (ZP-II at NIST) level. Specialized experience is defined as: Experience with application development utilizing different system architectures and system hardware environments. Experience with multiple hosting platforms, such as: Windows, Linux, VMware, Azure, Amazon cloud computing platforms Experience using Linux operating systems in a production environment and virtualization technologies such as AWS, VMware, Docker, Kubernetes and Openstack. Experience with programming languages, and related web technologies, such as: Java, Javascript, Python, C#, C++, Perl, Ruby on Rails, SQL, CSS, HTML, XML, JSON, DOM. Demonstrated experience with agile design and development processes and effecting the software implementation process. Agile development with Scrum, application security, developing system requirements, system design, design documentation and development. OR Master's or equivalent graduate degree OR Combination of education and experience Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done. We will credit all qualifying volunteer experience in your application. The qualification requirements in this vacancy announcement are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook. Applicant Reconsideration

Education

This position has an education requirement. Transcripts must be submitted to validate that the education requirement has been met. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted in the application package. However, an official copy will be required prior to a final offer of employment.

Education completed outside of the U.S. must be evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that it is comparable to education received in accredited institutions in the U.S. Click here to view a listing of accredited organizations from the Department of Education's website. A copy of the foreign education evaluation (containing the results with a course by course listing) is required with your application.

Contacts

• Address Information Access Division 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg, MD 20899 US
• Name: Tailor Thompson
• Email: [email protected]