ENGINEER

Engineer

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You will function as a Computer/Electronics Engineer for the NSWC PHD Surveillance Radar Division and provide critical engineering expertise.

You will provide engineering oversight for the entire system life cycle, from design and development through testing, fielding, and long-term sustainment.

You will work effectively within Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and communicate complex technical analyses and recommendations to all levels of management and technical personnel.

You will define, develop, and perform a wide range of engineering tasks, including shipboard/laboratory testing, and use data analysis applications to model performance and recommend system improvements.

You will apply integrated computer and electrical engineering principles to provide expert technical assistance and acquisition support.

You will demonstrate specific experience with Radio Frequency (RF) Receivers/Transmitters and related signal processing concepts.

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the ND-03 (GS-09 through GS-11 equivalent) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• As a professional engineer conducting root cause analysis and proposing solutions to resolve testing problems of computer or electronic systems and equipment for naval ship and weapons radar systems.

Applicants must meet the following basic education requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

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.