General Engineer

United-States-Department-of-Defens; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Missile Defense Agency in Huntsville, Alabama, is seeking a technical consultant to support critical decisions related to engineering, quality, mission assurance, and program management. The role focuses on ensuring engineering, quality, and mission assurance functions are performed competently and coordinating strategies for execution.

You will apply systems engineering practices, evaluate designs and performance data, and help implement assurance integrations across programs to strengthen

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• Strong knowledge of quality, mission assurance, and engineering principles.
• Experience with hardware/software design and verification and performance data.
• Ability to apply MBSE/MOSA/DevSecOps concepts to ensure program success.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical consultant for critical decisions on engineering, quality, and mission assurance.
• Coordinate and implement strategies for quality, mission assurance, and assurance integrations.
• Ensure engineering, quality, and mission assurance functions are performed competently.

Skills

Quality assurance

Engineering

Program management

Mission assurance

Systems engineering

Education

ABET-accredited engineering program

Tools

MBSE

MOSA

DevSecOps

AI basics

Job description

This position is part of the Department of War (DoW), Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The incumbent will be responsible for serving as a technical consultant for critical decisions related to engineering, quality, mission assurance, and program management. Assuring engineering, quality, and mission assurance functions and operations performed competently; and coordinating and implementing strategies for the execution of quality, mission assurance, and assurance integrations.

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 the 4 specialized experience listed below to be qualified:

• Leading quality and mission assurance teams, developing quality and mission assurance criteria and standards, developing and implementing quality and mission assurance requirements for contracts, and validating compliance with quality and mission assurance requirements.
• Evaluating hardware design (schematics, parts selection, materials), software design, source code, test execution, and operational performance data for compliance with mission assurance, quality, and safety requirements for complex missile defense systems.
• Utilizing system, hardware and software architecture and engineering practices, including Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) or model-based software development tools; Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) design; Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) principles; and advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) or advanced manufacturing techniques for capability development.
• Performing comprehensive technical evaluations of hardware production or software development activities, lifecycle methodologies, reliability metrics, reusability, technical performance measures, and manufacturing or programming tools.

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:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf

Individual Occupational Requirements Basic Requirements:

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.

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 for professional 1For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org. 2The 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. 1 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.