INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEER/ SCIENTIST with Security Clearance - Ridgecrest, CA, United States - Department of Defense

Description

Duties

• You will provide software expertise as part of the flight software team to oversee the Contractor's software development efforts across the Software Development Life Cycle.
• You will provide Modeling and simulation expertise in support of simulation Verification, Validation and Accreditation.
• You will evaluate and trace software requirements according to specs of a given Software build.
• You will participate in design reviews and provide analysis and feedback on software design.
• You will participate in software testing including providing input during test planning, test plan reviews, procedure reviews, overseeing test execution and reviewing test reports.
• You will review and provide feedback on software change requests.
• You will present software development status and risks.
• You will participate as the co-chair with the Contractor in All-Up-Round Simulation Control Panel meetings to review simulation accreditation documentation and test results in support of accreditation requests.
• You will support the Tomahawk System Safety team for software system safety.
• You will interface with Contractor's software product owners

Requirements Conditions of Employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check

To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.

• Males born after must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty

Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.

• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA)

Certification in the Acquisition Functional Area and category assigned to the position is required within established category timeframes.

• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test
You will be subject to random testing.

• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites

You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time
Qualifications In addition to meeting the basic education requirement, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the DP-03 pay band or GS-9/11 grade level in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector
Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Providing Modeling and simulation expertise in support of simulation Verification, Validation and Accreditation; 2) Evaluating and tracing software requirements according to specs of a given Software build; 3) Participating in design reviews and providing analysis and feedback on software design; 4) Participating in software testing including providing input during test planning, test plan reviews, procedure reviews, overseeing test execution and reviewing test reports; 5) Reviewing and providing feedback on software change requests; and 6) Presenting software development status and risks
Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: 08XX Series - General Engineering Series Series - Physics Series Series - Mathematics Series Series - Computer Science Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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
Education Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Qualifications Standards Manual: 08XX Series: Successful completion of a professional engineering degree
To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (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
Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position
OR Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), 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 more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: OR 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
The FE examination is not administered by the U
S
Office of Personnel Management

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OR Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above)

The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above) OR 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 one 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
1310 Series: A)

Degree:
physics; or related degree that included at least 24 semester hours in physics
OR B) Combination of education and experience courses equivalent to a major in physics totaling at least 24 semester hours, plus appropriate experience or additional education
In either A or B above, the courses must have included a fundamental course in general physics and, in addition, courses in any two of the following: electricity and magnetism, heat, light, mechanics, modern physics, and sound
1520 Series: A)

Degree:
mathematics; or the equivalent of a major that included at least 24 semester hours in mathematics
OR B) Combination of education and experience courses equivalent to a major in mathematics (including at least 24 semester hours in mathematics), as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education
The total course work in either A or B above must have included differential and integral calculus and, in addition, four advanced mathematics courses requiring calculus or equivalent mathematics courses as a prerequisite
1550 Series: 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 degrees and course work must be from accredited or pre-accredited institutions
If you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you must submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned) in your resume
See OPM's General Policies for information on crediting education

Foreign Education:
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the qualification requirements if the applicant can provide documentation indicating that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States
It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence when applying
For further information on the evaluation of foreign education, refer to the U.S
Department of Educat