General Engineer

United-States-Department-of-Defens; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Defense (DoD) Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking a qualified professional to advise on technical performance requirements, acquisition and operational issues, and performance trades among program elements. The role requires meeting the 0801 engineering occupational standards, with options for engineering degree or combination of education and experience.

Applicants should have experience in systems engineering and related sub-specialties such as architecture development,

Qualifications

• Degree: Engineering with ABET-accredited program or equivalent
• Combination of education and experience demonstrating foundation in physical and mathematical sciences and engineering techniques

Responsibilities

• Advise on technical performance requirements, acquisition policies, and operational considerations for defense systems.
• Assist in trades and analyses across program elements to optimize system performance.

Skills

Acquisition policies

Systems engineering

Modeling & simulation

Threat systems engineering

Cybersecurity engineering

Architecture development

Requirements development

Design

Performance modeling & analysis

Interface development & engineering

System integration

Risk management

Verification & validation

Lethality

Signal processing

Antenna design

Networks

Protocols

Propulsion

Avionics

Guidance, navigation & control

Structures & dynamics

Rocket motors & thrusters

Seeker

Radiation hardening

Software engineering

Data analytics

Cyber testing

Power systems

Parts / materials

Industrial & manufacturing

Sustainability

Reliability

International requirements

Specialty engineering

Education

Engineering degree

Combination of education and experience

Job description

This position is part of the Department of Defense (DoD), Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The incumbent will be responsible for: Advising on technical, acquisition and operational issues related to technical performance requirements, systems engineering, financial management, and performance trades among program elements. You may qualify at the NH 04 Broadband Level, if you fulfill the following qualifications:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-03/GS-13 grade level in the Federal service as listed below and must meet 2 of 3 specialized experience listed below to be qualified:

• Experience applying acquisition policies to complex defense systems.
• Experience in the field of systems engineering in one or more of the following key specialty areas: systems architecture, systems engineering, threat systems engineering, cybersecurity engineering, modeling & simulation, sensors & radars, command & control, battle management, missiles, targets, kill vehicles, space vehicles, directed energy, discrimination, hypersonics, artificial intelligence/machine learning.
• Experience in one or more sub-specialty area: architecture development, requirements development, design, model-based systems engineering, object oriented analysis, performance modeling & analysis, interface development & engineering, system integration, test requirements, test & performance analysis, system assessment, risk management, verification & validation, lethality, specific/multiple radar frequencies, signal processing, antenna design, networks, protocols, propulsion, avionics, guidance, navigation & control, structures & dynamics, rocket motors & thrusters, seekers, radiation hardening, software engineering, data analytics, cyber testing, power systems, parts / materials, industrial & manufacturing, sustainability, reliability, international requirements, and/or specialty engineering.

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 0801, series as listed below:

This position has a Basic Requirement for the 0801 series: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

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 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 by 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. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.