Electronics Engineer

US Defense Microelectronics Activity; North Highlands (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

The DoD Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo) vacancy is part of the Defense Microelectronics Activity. The incumbent will develop, coordinate and implement cross-discipline product development activities across engineering domains.

Qualifications include an engineering degree (ABET-accredited) or an equivalent mix of education and experience; specialized experience at NH-03/GS-11 level is described, with exposure to FPGA design, RF systems and advanced CAD tools used

Qualifications

• ABET-accredited engineering program or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Course work includes engineering science or physics with calculus and core engineering subjects.
• Professional registration or relevant licensure can qualify applicants.

Responsibilities

• Develop, coordinate and implement cross-discipline product development activities.

Skills

FPGA development

Electronics evaluation

EDA tools

RF testing/analysis

Education

ABET-accreditedengineeringdegree

Tools

Altium

Cadence

OrCAD

CST Studio

Antenna Magus

ADS

Job description

The position(s) covered by this vacancy announcement is in the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo). For more information please see: AcqDemo

This position is being filled under AcqDemo Direct Hiring Authority (DHA).

This position is part of the Defense Microelectronics Activity. The incumbent will be responsible for development, coordination and implementation of cross discipline product development activities. You may qualify at the NH-03, if you fulfill the following qualifications:

A. One year of specialized experience

equivalent to the NH-02 (GS-11 equivalent) grade level in the Federal service as listed below:

• FPGA Development using VHDL and/or Verilog design tools to perform Synthesis and Simulation;
• Evaluating Electronics designs and products using analysis equipment like Power Analyzers, Signal Analyzers, Network Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, and/or GPS Simulators;
• Using advanced microelectronics CAD software like Altium, Cadence, or OrCad to design microcircuits, layout PCBs, and simulate system functionality;
• Simulating, validating, and/or testing Radio Frequency (RF) electronics and RF Antennas using Anechoic Chambers, CST Studio (or equivalent), Antenna Magus (or equivalent), and/or ADS Software.

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.

In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0855, series as listed below:

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.

OR

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 of 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)2 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.)

**NOTE:

Failure to provide transcripts will result in you being rated ineligible for this position.