You will serve as an INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/SCIENTIST (Data Loader Subject Matter Expert) in the Flight Safety Systems & Airspace Integration Branch (AC12400), the Core Avionics Engineering Division (AC12000), the Avionics Department (AC10000), and the Mission Systems Group of NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV. This position provides a Senior Engineering support for all Data Loader Systems subject matter. The duty location for this position is Patuxent River, Maryland.

Duties

You will provide Senior Engineering support for all Data Loader Systems subject matter. You will provide support for subject matters related to DTU-700, DTU-7100, ADTS-101/102/103/701/702 Variants, development of new technologies, and maintaining an understanding of DoD and industry standards. You will be responsible for systems engineering (software and hardware) of ADTS avionics integrations and products during the various phases of development, integration, test and evaluation, production, and fleet use. You will maintain programmatic and technical risk via the execution of a Risk Management Board (RMB) and have the ability to track and drive progress on the mitigation of risks. You will accommodate operational needs in avionics systems performance parameters and configuration through an iteration of definition, functional analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and decision trade-off. You will develop and support relationships and teamwork with the Naval Aviation Enterprise, Industry Consortiums, and associated contractors to provide technical support required in coordinating the integrated systems engineering effort. You will act on behalf of Core Avionics Engineering as the Subject Matter Expert for Core Avionics Systems under development by the Air Combat Electronics IPT and/or Class Desk. You will independently manage time addressing multiple complex software systems development projects simultaneously.

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
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• 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.
• 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.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final 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 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 (GS-09/11) grade level or pay band (DP-03) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Performing work related to the research, development, integration, test, acquisition, and life-cycle support of electronic systems that provide the aircrew with the situational awareness needed for safety-of-flight; 2) Giving direction, engineering, and administrative coordination of assigned equipment and installation programs; 3) Providing systems management through the Systems Engineering Technical Review (SETR) process, risk analysis management, and life cycle management; 4) Supporting material acquisition of the avionics and electronics systems (including software), subsystems, equipment, and inserting advance technology where appropriate and cost effective; 5) Developing and maintaining area cognizance over assigned systems, their performance specification, interface requirements documents, statements of work, technical directives and other technical documentations; and 6) Directing systems integration analyses of all avionics software and hardware to ensure compatibility of all physical, functional, and program interfaces in a manner that optimizes total avionics system effectiveness. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: 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

For DP-0855 Series Applicants:

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.

For DP-1550 Series Applicants:

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.

Contacts

• Address NAVAIRWARCENAC DIV Naval Air Warfare Center Patuxent River, MD 20670-5304 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]