Computer Engineer (Cybersecurity)

US Bureau of Industry and Security; Washington (District of Columbia); Presencial; USD 110 000 - 140 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

US Bureau of Industry and Security in Washington, DC seeks a Computer Engineer (Cybersecurity) to apply engineering methods to analyze and secure complex computer systems in the Technology Advisory Division.

The role requires evaluating vulnerabilities, performing technical studies, and presenting findings with practical mitigation strategies to diverse audiences, including leadership and technical staff.

Qualificações

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited program or equivalent with strong mathematics and engineering science foundation.
• Professional registration/licensure or passing fundamentals of engineering or equivalent licensure criteria.
• Combination of education and relevant professional experience may qualify under multiple pathways.

Responsabilidades

• Apply computer engineering principles to analyze, design, and evaluate complex computer systems.
• Conduct technical studies to identify technology vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies.
• Prepare and present technical analyses and recommendations to audiences with varying technical backgrounds.

Formação académica

ABET-accredited engineering program

Professional registration or licensure (EI/EIT/PE) or equivalent

Combination of education and experience (engineering/science domains)

Descrição da oferta de emprego

This vacancy is for a Computer Engineer (Cybersecurity) in the Technology Advisory Division, Office of lnformation and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS), Office of the Under Secretary (OUS), Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) within the Department of Commerce. Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Occupational-Series

Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.

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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

BASIC REQUIREMENT- EDUCATION

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.

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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) 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).

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SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT

To qualify at the GS‑14 level you must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS‑13 in the Federal Service or its non‑Federal equivalent performing the following:

• Applying computer engineering principles, techniques, and practices to analyze, design, test, or evaluate the operation of complex computer systems in areas such as software development, computer networking, telecommunications, cybersecurity, or internet‑connected devices; AND
• Conducting technical studies and evaluating technical data to investigate potential technology vulnerabilities, analyze the various characteristics of systems, and evaluate effective mitigation techniques and strategies; AND
• Preparing and presenting technical analyses, reports, and recommendations that address the functionality and operation of complex systems, technology vulnerabilities, and effective mitigation techniques and strategies to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise.