Computer Scientist

US National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Boulder (CO); Presencial; USD 90 000 - 145 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

National Telecommunications and Information Administration seeks a Computer Scientist to contribute to software development and scientific computing initiatives within the Department of Commerce. The role requires qualifying experience in software development, data-intensive programs, and leadership of projects.

Applicants must meet the OPM basic and specialized experience requirements, with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field and substantial experience in scientific

Qualificações

• Software development experience to create and improve software solutions.
• Creating scientific software programs (metrics, data-intensive workloads, algorithms, modeling, data mining, forecasting, optimization, simulations, statistical analysis, numerical analysis, numerical methods, ML/AI, signal processing, image/audio/video processing).
• Leading teams or projects.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and improve software solutions for data-intensive problems.
• Lead projects and teams to deliver scientific software products.

Conhecimentos

Software development

Scientific software

Team leadership

Formação académica

CS degree or CS+math/statistics

Descrição da oferta de emprego

This vacancy is for a Computer Scientist in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration 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.

This position is being filled under the Department of Commerce Alternative Personnel System (CAPS). Under CAPS, positions are classified by career path and pay band. The ZP-4 is equivalent to the GS-13/14 grade levels.

To qualify at the ZP-4, applicants must meet A and B below:

A. BASIC REQUIREMENT: A 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 and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions.

AND

B. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 or ZP-3 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: 1. Software development experience to create and improve software solutions; 2. Creating scientific software programs (for example, metrics, data intensive workloads, algorithms, modeling, data mining, forecasting, optimization, simulations, statistical analysis, numerical analysis, numerical methods, machine learning (ML), artificial Intelligence (AI), signal processing, image/audio/video processing) AND 3. Leading teams or projects.